by the character of modern gop s anti-tax pledge norquist and argued reagan would embrace gop s points telling talking points memo, he didn t have a republican house committed to not raising taxes as president and had a pre-reagan senate. this is the republican party that reagan created. that he envisioned. let s turn to joan walsh, editor at large for salon.com. welcome to the show, joan. thanks, michael. is grover norquist engaging in some revisionist history here, joan, that really misses the point of what we clearly saw reagan doing? well, yeah, of course he is. of course he wants to claim reagan for this party that he s created that has brought the country to the brink of a debt crisis and continues to mire the country in a terrible recession, michael. he needs to say, ronald reagan wanted that. ronald reagan would have endorsed that. but i think it s actually more interesting to look at what jeb
myself. can i just make i d like to yield to the attorney general at this point, please. well, i with all due respect to chairman issa, he says there s hostility between us. i don t feel that. you know, i understand he s asking questions. i m trying to respond as best i can. i m not feeling hostile at all. i m pretty calm. i m okay. thank god for calm, black men. here s part of the justice department s official response. chairman issa s latest maneuver is unfortunate and unwarranted, particularly given the ongoing discussions. from the beginning, chairman issa has distorted the facts, ignored testimony and flung inaccurate accusations at the attorney general and others. and this latest move fits within that tired political playbook. let s turn to eleanor holmes norton, congresswoman from the district of columbia and another georgetown colleague on the house oversight committee. congresswoman, eleanor holmes norton, thank you for coming on. of course. good to be with you
you re headed for a great defeat and going to be regrouping in december and january. right. let s stick to that point. he s also questioning the gop s approach to immigration. he says romney needs to change his tone on the subject matter. now, some of this may be existential given the fact jeb bush is married to a woman of latino descent. which seems to make a difference in his understanding of the problem. will the republican party heed his advice? no, not any time soon. it will be interesting, if mitt romney loses in november, i think that there will just be a bloodbath and there will be a lot of blame and finger pointing. but it s going to come in two directions. you will see people like jeb bush saying we went too far, we have to take the party back from the tea party. but then i think you ll also see tea party people saying mitt romney was never our guy. mitt romney was a moderate and what we really need is somebody to the right of ronald reagan. to it the right of the till of
says there s hostility between us. i don t feel that. you know, i understand he s asking questions. i m trying to respond as best i can. i m not feeling hostile at all. i m pretty calm. i m okay. thank god for calm, black men. here s part of the justice department s official response. chairman issa s latest maneuver is unfortunate and unwarranted, particularly given the ongoing discussions. from the beginning, chairman issa has distorted the facts, ignored testimony and flung inaccurate accusations at the attorney general and others. and this latest move fits within that tired political playbook. let s turn to eleanor holmes norton, congresswoman from the district of columbia and another georgetown colleague on the house oversight committee. congresswoman, eleanor holmes norton, thank you for coming on. of course. good to be with you. the ranking democrat on your committee, elijah cummings, said, holding someone in contempt of congress is one of the most serious and formal act
argued reagan would embrace gop s points telling talking points memo, he didn t have a republican house committed to not raising taxes as president and had a pre-reagan senate. this is the republican party that reagan created. that he envisioned. let s turn to joan walsh, editor at large for salon.com. welcome to the show, joan. thanks, michael. is grover norquist engaging in some revisionist history here, joan, that really misses the point of what we clearly saw reagan doing? well, yeah, of course he is. of course he wants to claim reagan for this party that he s created that has brought the country to the brink of a debt crisis and continues to mire the country in a terrible recession, michael. he needs to say, ronald reagan wanted that. ronald reagan would have endorsed that. but i think it s actually more interesting to look at what jeb bush is doing because while he s declaring his independence from grover norquist and his party,