can government be nimble, can government learn from its mistakes? i would say the website is just a small symptom. government is like an offensive lineman. it can do blocking, it can create order. when you ask the government to be a wide receiver, you re asking them to do things they can t do. republicans win elections when the government asks them to do things they can t do. page three of the report it says here, the team is reacting with private sector velocity and effectiveness. that s an acknowledgment that, you know what, this was a government operation for a long time and it failed. now we re bringing in the private sector folks. that is an indictment on the whole idea of government as a solution, frankly, when you look at this. and the president as a manager, and people around him who can get the bureaucracy to move in a particular direction, which is not easy, but this is your point on how nimble government is.
walk in and fire everybody on the floor. get out there was. they would hire, start over immediately. and it would be fixed. like don t tell me if steve jobs had a disastrous launch on monday that that stuff wouldn t be working by friday. we got to figure out a way yeah. yeah, i m sorry. gene, really quickly? i was curious. is this a union firm? do you know that be a fact? i don t know how unions got involved. it s a government operation. i m guessing, gene, it s just a wild guess that probably there are union connections on a contract awarded and run by the federal government. well i would be glad to bet you. i ll bet you if i m right you and jeff bezos have to put me in the the washington post box
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the group says the weekend assault was in retaliation for government operation against it. for the second day in a row, top american officials are pushing back against demands for u.s. military involvement in syria. tuesday, was the president. today, the nation s top defense chiefs, the national security correspondent jennifer griffin reports on the pressure to do something. for the first time since basirian military crushed the opposition in homs, humanitarian aid groups were allowed in to see the devastation. in washington, republicans like senator john mccain continued to press for u.s. military intervention. how many more have to die? 10,000 more? 20,000 more? how many more? what doesn t make sense is to take the unilateral action at this point. as secretary of defense, before i recommend that we put our sons about daughters in uniform, in harm s way, i ve got to make very sure that we know what the mission is. for us to take military
we have worked many years. i think there are some differences. if you look at total level of experience, i think that i am substantially more experienced than rick is at actually running a very large government operation. if you think of us as partners, he would clearly in historical experience be the junior partner. sean: he may want to join up, but he wants to put you in the junior position. but you are friends? absolutely. that s a subtle jab. my feeling is the junior partner, when i was in the house of representatives, the big thing that turned the house of representatives from democrat to republican was the scandals that i uncovered, along with john boehner and jim russell, the gang of 7, we fought both republican and democratic leadership on corruption with check-cashing scandal and sent dan rothenskowski to jail.