So it was calculated from day one? the minute they won the house? yes, it was. michael, reporting on this. where did you find this guy? well he came into my inbox somehow or another over the weekend. i m glad it was a fascinating piece. he is the inside man. this is like the tobacco industry. yeah. not like russell crowe here. this is not like me writing it. you have been saying these things i noticed. i think a lot of the cartoon notions about each political party now let s look at this thing. this, i think, is evil. this is the dumping on the very republican government. the democratic form of government. democratic form of government. you claim that they are planning to discredit government itself. you write a staffer once said to you, should republicans succeed in destructing the senate from doing its job it would lower congress s generic favorbility rating among the american people by sabotaging the reputation of
Are there other people that think like you within the republican party that are just keeping their mouths shut. absolutely. people are more candid on a sub rosa level. but it is is the herd mentality. it is not that people are individually bad and this is not a grudge match or any sort of score settling on my part. this is because i grew to revere the institution and the people who trash it. they are trashing article one of constitution that they claim to revere. wow. great to have you on. thanks for coming. great reporter. thank you very much, coming from the daily beast and from newsweek. thank you michael and michael. coming up, why i think rick perry will be the obama challenger. we will see, anything can change. i think there is something about the gut on the right that this guy is into, that even a smart guy like romney can t quite
Position to revise the country s post-war constitution so as to tackle the north korean crisis voter turnout may have been hampered as a typhoon washes japan official election results are expected later this evening. well joining me now from tokyo is journalist michael and michael what is the latest from the vote when will we know whether ave has got his supermajority. most likely will find out about the super majority a little bit after midnight local time which is a little over two hours from now. at that time the proportional bloc voting results will be coming in as of about fifteen minutes ago we have confirmed through the district races and what we do already know that he s won a simple majority combining both his ruling party plus his ruling coalition partner so there s no doubt that it s going to be a landslide election in favor of the ruling party in the ruling coalition we just