restoring some faith in the fact that government can work, and this is the first test of that. but then there is immigration reform, which he wants to get done. there s got to be some attention on energy. there s the issue of climate change. but how much of his time is going to be dominated by the necessity for america to figure out what its new strategy is in the middle east, beyond winding down our military forces? because we re needed there. we re going to be needed there. but we have a state department. we have a defense department. they can do that. i still think this will be a domestic policy agenda. if we can get the yes on this deal right now, show that the country is governable, there s really a process to go through, a whole bunch of big things. sort of in an 1890 situation where a lot of big problems are hitting us at once. we have wiped out wages for the middle class. a corrupt political system. ossified political structures like the tax reform and the immigration code.
restoring some faith in the fact that government can work, and this is the first test of that. but then there is immigration reform, which he wants to get done. there s got to be some attention on energy. there s the issue of climate change. but how much of his time is going to be dominated by the necessity for america to figure out what its new strategy is in the middle east, beyond winding down our military forces? because we re needed there. we re going to be needed there. but we have a state department. we have a defense department. they can do that. i still think this will be a domestic policy agenda. if we can get the yes on this deal right now, show that the country is governable, there s really a process to go through, a whole bunch of big things. sort of in an 1890 situation where a lot of big problems are hitting us at once. we have wiped out wages for the middle class. a corrupt political system. ossified political structures like the tax reform and the immigration code. i
out what its new strategy is in the middle east, beyond winding down our military forces? because we re needed there. we re going to be needed there. but we have a state department. we have a defense department. they can do that. i still think this will be a domestic policy agenda. if we can get the yes on this deal right now, show that the country is governable, there s really a process to go through, a whole bunch of big things. sort of in an 1890 situation where a lot of big problems are hitting us at once. we have wiped out wages for the middle class. a corrupt political system. ossified political structures like the tax reform and the immigration code. if we can get that first yes over the next couple of months, we can take a series of steps on immigration and tax reform to tackle these big things. i agree that the yes is important, and i think part of what the president has to deal with, david, is we thought he had a yes in the grand bargain, and then boehner couldn t bring
referencing the president and what he said about relaxing immigration policy for people under 30, under certain circumstances and saying that any deportation would be stopped. justice scalia referenced that in the opinion and then added this, in going after the president, pointedly said, are the sovereign states at the mercy of the federal executive s refusal of enforcing the federal immigration laws? the one piece that was upheld was upheld by all 9 justices. and the dhs issued an order saying they would stop the arizona to enforce the immigration code for them. so they stopped it. so what is interesting, suddenly
failure of the ins and failure of unwillingness of both parties to set rules and implement the same rules. tea party values treat everybody exactly like everybody else under the laws of the land. i agree with that. one of the things i have to learn is how incredibly outdated the immigration is. look at the immigration code, right? instead of giving people advise vaus we are allowing people to be smugglers. we haven t been able to put the partisanship aside and say look. i did o reilly a couple months ago. i got so many notes from tea partyers and minute men i agree with you let s solve this issue. we should come up with a solution. at least president obama said this is going to be the rule 30 and under. but it is it s at least a start. it s a start. attorney and federal attorney is arbitrarily he just picked