unprecedented. well, have i to tell you, i never interpreted tz a direct attack on me but more a discussion is a lobbyist going to be involved in a particular campaign. you might remember barack obama played very central on the whole lobbyist discussion and whether or not they d be involved. i never did any federal lobbying. it s always been at the state level. so, i think, you know, while the issue was being raised, the lobbist issue, i don t think it was a personal talk on me and i never took it as that. perry bacon has a new story up today just looking at the effect hillary clinton is shutting down the early maneuvering. we normally see. he says five republicans have already gone to see iowa. so far only one visit at a june fund-raiser for excuse me, you ve had no ooefsht events in iowa and one event in new hampshire from kristin gillibrand who made an appearance at a june fund-raiser. in is way down historically. dave, again, i know that the
knock on this is it s so far in the future, why are we talking about 2016. yes, she s ahead in the polls. she was ahead last time. i think there s something different going on right now. it is. i think we re losing something in politics because of it. the way you get an idea covered is to fight about it or to run for president and talk about it. i think that s why you saw howard dean, when he was at net roots nation, and i was at net roots nation, there was almost not quite unanimity of acceptance of hill ru but a place that was basically a movement, the online activists that was almost founded to oppose that kind of the pro-iraq war democrats, you know, pretty much acceptance. you saw howard dean not say no when he might run for president. he s not going to run for president but he realized the way to get any issue out of aperture of politics covered is to say you might. by not doing that if you had democrats criticizing obama, going to iowa, on anything, you would have a di
that s the way mayors deal with this issue. we ll keep you around for another segment. we re going to bring in one of the state senators facing this recall effort and we ll hear from him, john morse. so. [ gasps ]
past week to hold an in-person town hall to address your constituents who you went on the rachel maddow show to say, don t take e-mails from your constituents, don t take the phone calls. we want to know if you would accept your constituents town hall challenge? what i m doing is talking to my constituents one-on-one at the door. what i said on rachel maddow you have to i guess newer the e-mails that are disgusting and vile and don t get to the issue. most of the e-mails fall in that category. they start with, you re an idiot so i m sure you re not going to listen to what i have to say. truthfully by the time you get that far into an e-mail, you know it s not going to have a great deal of value for you. i ve represented my constituents for seven years. i ve lived in my community for most of the last 45 years. we had a town hall a couple weeks ago and we structured it in a way that thousands of people could participate, which
what happened in the 1990s and talking about these other priorities the party could be emphasizing, why is it the republican party is so committed to something as specific as we re never going to raise taxes, period? why is that such a bottom line issue? i think of the lessons from 1990, 1992 and 1993. it s such a core issue. bob novak was famous for saying, god put republicans on earth to cut taxes. that lesson has been internalized. the problem is the policy challenges of today aren t really so much about tax rates as they are about spending and regulation. again, if you re a conservative. so, that s where i think there needs to be a lot more of an adjustment where the policy attention is. that hasn t really happened because we re still having the legacy of those lesson the 90s and this younger generation of conservatives and republicans are trying to focus more on those issues but they re not they re not at the peak yet. i think if you actually look at the evidence, you don t