Speeches at once. A shortterm rallying cry, a longterm laundry list and an unusually emotional plea for action to change gun laws. While senator marco rubios watershed moment for the party came up dry in one way, his punchy primetime pitch did rev up the base. And it stirred up more 2016 talk. Also this morning, an exclusive first interview. Exit interview of sorts. With now former indiana senator dick lugar since he left the senate on whats wrong with congress, politics and the Republican Party, and how he thinks it can be fixed. Good morning from washington. Its wednesday, february 13, 2013. This is the daily rundown. Im chuck todd. Reminder, folks, its february 13th. Husbands, boyfriends, youve got one more day to get your act together. Lets go to my first reads of the morning. The president s state of the Union Address ended up arguably as three speeches in one. It started out with a focus on the looming economic and budget crises that washingtons about to face. Moved on to a laund
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and then success will breed success in negotiating the reconciliation package going forward. my experience in washington says it is that true that good gets better and bad gets worse. a bad day today, the congressman is right, the media will say this is the end of the world. it will make it harder to get things done going forward. and haley barbour also said nothing is ever as good or as bad as it looks. that s the historical view. don t think things are really in disaster. there is still more time. good gets better and bad gets worse. and i guarantee if i asked president biden whether he would like to get this done tonight or wait. he would like to get it done tonight. i think what john is articulating is sort of this undeniable law of political momentum. and it is true that this president could use a head of
the civil rights act was debated in the senate for three months in 1964. okay? so just having some historical perspective on this, it s still even early in the fall. and, is he, again but i agree with yamiche in this way. joe biden has had a horrible two months? yeah. and one of the things we also understand about how politics works is that good gets better and bad gets worse. i think hayley barbour said that famously. so a win this week this is the argument the white house is making, and nancy pelosi is making to progressives, saying guys, the president needs a win right now. the president has had since afghanistan, has had two bad months. his approval rating is down in the low 40s right now. give this guy a victory. he already had the half victory of getting this thing on a bipartisan basis, 69 votes on the hard infrastructure bill in the senate. let s bank this win, give him a win when he needs that.