terrific guy and someone who can coordinate this from the top. that didn t happen. you had people in the white house, people in h.h.s., outside contractors that were not working together, coordinating together. they didn t put together the front end and the back end. a lot of it is the kinds of problems that clay is talking about. but the larger point of my piece was i think the biggest failure that we ve seen in the obama administration and the obama white house is there s been much less concern with public administration. running the agencies, making sure the laws you get passed remarkable success at passing the laws actually get implemented well. and this is the prime example of that failure. jay angoff, norm ornstein and clay johnson, big thanks to all of you for that valuable insight. thank you. a north carolina republican party precinct chairman resigning after making some controversial comments on the daily show earlier this week.
what you re really going to see is at the end of the day these agreements keep coming down to will republicans accept any kind of tax increases? you saw lindsey graham tried to avoid the word loopholes, whatever that means. ultimately is lindsey graham or more importantly are republicans in the house in the house vote for tax increases? the answer to that is probably no. until they say yes no grand bargain is going to happen. as adam points out on the left, people will be looking to make sure consistent with as he pointed out the news that andrea mitchell made this morning, that there are no benefit cuts made as part of this deal as well. thank you to perry bacon, adam green and jay angoff. next, happening again. a voter purge in virginia reminds us how high the stakes are. why so many of your basic rights are and will be trampled if the cheating isn t stopped. that s coming up. the whole country is watching to see if the rights of women
bret: now, freshbe pickings from the political grapevine. case of the revolving door that might get your blood boiling. the washington examiner reports the man mo helped craft obamacare regulation on insurers will now make a lot of money by suing insurers, based on those regulations. jay angoff is returning to a washington based law firm after three years as the first director of obamacare insurance implementation. the examiner notes the trial lawyer situation is a subset of the broader dynamic. and any congressional staffer or administration official makes himself more valuable to an industry by increasing government s role in that industry. the daily caller found some eyebrow-raising expenses of former presidents that you are paying for. bill clinton wired at least