I read a lot of books, which means I also read a lot of book reviews. And some are classics. They’re essays of a certain type, after all, and there are great essays, so why not great book reviews? John Banvilles’s take-down of Ian McEwan’s Saturday in The New York Review of Books several years…
less impactful. you never would have heard ten years ago somebody as a united states senator saying you know what? i m quitting to run a think tank like jim de mint did or i m quitting. to do a radio talk show. yes. mike rogers was supposed to do an interview with me on bloomberg television on friday and he backed out of it and i wrote a blistering memo what possible excuse could you have? i am sorry, rogers staff! i meant to tell you, it does not make sense to go to washington if you want to make a difference and this is a great example. i bet you he will say, he has more of a platform to make a difference and to reach people with a message on the radio than he does going to washington and dealing with that big pile of you guys are on the hill. listen. basically, in the senate you ve got harry reid and i ve said and it irritates people but it s the truth. basically a pocket veto for
attempt to save the kids. de blasio is shutting it down without a pretext of argument. so, jim, have eva moscowwitz. big ten. senator, cpac today, obviously. you re in this great 10,000 foot above position to watch and comment. you clearly have the republicans in the same conundrum they have been in for years they have to play to the base and you have the ted cruz and marco rubio and ryans and they keep smashing their heads against the wall. what do you say to the true conservatives, how do they play to their base and skill win the philadelphia and outside suburbs of washington, d.c. the places you need to win in a general election. ? the only election the republicans have won in over a
former senator jim de mint, thank you. great seeing you, jim, as always. the book is falling in love with america. you can read an excerpt from our site at msnbc.com. feel free to go on a bit longer. we roll that word great around too much. only say that when we say about conservatives. we have one conservative on every six months. so you have to say great? no. we have a dog that wins the westminster dog show and call it great, you re fine with that and call a conservative great and you re melting down over there in your armani suit and your new glasses. i like bill. i respect bill. have you met his daughter? she is great. exactly. so by, you know, relationship, he s great. by the way, congratulations on both of you for not bringing up the duke horn story.
many that i don t know if we are going to be able to accommodate them all. oh, we have the catwalk. it will be great. coming up on morning joe, congressman elijah cummings joins us. bill kristol and book falling in love with american again, former senator jim demint. and james patterson and interview with mick jagger! who gets the big one? who gets this one, man? i saw him in an elevator once at the carlisle. you didn t dunk on him, did you? wait. what? you re watching morning joe. we will be right back. [ male announcer ] what if a small company became big business overnight? like, really big. then expanded?