from there was a nice piece in the new york times about this, the same birther crowd that is just fundamentally not accepted the legitimacy of this person being the president of the united states and it is not a very far drumming from he was not born here, he was born in kenya and therefore to let us get him out of office in any way possible. ben, your colleague at new york magazine jonathan chait has a good metaphor. they says they are not ready to impeach. on the otherhand they have little doubt that impeachment is merited. it s a bit like the way the feds thought about al capone in the 20s. his guilt was assumed. the puzzle merely how they could go about nailing him. did obama commit mail fraud? is that a way to get out of office? isn t that what they got capone for? that speaks to the thing in the ground water. there s this kind of curious aspect of washington theater logic basically, where there s never any room for sort of a small to medium sized scandal.
stimulus, but the president and forced them to build a health care bill entirely on the left. well, and it s kind of actually a romneycare bill, the kind of bill romney and ted kennedy negotiated in massachusetts that romney has run away from. what was great about the president s speech today is he got his voice back. he laid down real dividing lines. do you want a tax cut for the wealthy, or do you want a tax cut for the middle class? do you want to invest in america, help build our roads, help build our railroads, or do you want to continue to let corporations have tax loopholes for shipping jobs overseas? those kind of dividing lines are very similar, by the way, to what harry truman did in 1948, and they give democrats some hope they can come back. here he is on that point saying the republicans going after them on the deficit argument, using it against them, and, again, casting john boehner, the man with the tan, as the enemy of the middle class and a friend of the rich.
worked in the sense it kept the stimulus too small, made it impossible to have a second stimulus, but the president and forced them to build a health care bill entirely on the left. right. well, and it s kind of actually a romney care bill, it s kind of the bill that romney and ted kennedy negotiated in massachusetts that romney s run away from. what was great about the president s speech today is he got his voice back. he laid down real dividing lines. do you want a tax cut for the wealthy, or do you want a tax cut for the middle class? do you want to invest in america, help build our roads, help build our railroads, or do you want to continue to let corporations have tax loopholes for shipping jobs overseas? those kind of dividing lines are very similar, by the way, to what harry truman did in 1948, and they give democrats some hope they can come back. here he is on that point saying the republicans going after them on the deficit argument, using it against them, and, again
and we ve just seen time and again as we did as i mentioned in that clip with the christmas day bomber, he was on the no-fly list, for some reason it wasn t enforced. he got on the plane. by the way, when finally because a citizen stopped him, we gave him miranda warnings and told him he has the right to remain silent. when this is not a citizen, it s clearly a terrorist trying to kill innocent american civilians. and we don t know what intelligence we may have been able to garner from him that because of this administration s policy and that instance we did not get. you re going after this guy on every point, playing a full-court press, nailing him for not nailing that guy from nigeria. who on god s earth knew the guy was the president s fault. here you want to get the guy one second, chris. do you think that non-citizen terrorists like the christmas day bomber should be read their miranda warnings and told they have the right to remain silent? is that an unfair criticism?
well, and it s kind of actually a romney care bill, it s kind of the bill that romney and ted kennedy negotiated in massachusetts that romney s run away from. what was great about the president s speech today is he got his voice back. he laid down real dividing lines. do you want a tax cut for the wealthy, or do you want a tax cut for the middle class? do you want to invest in america, help build our roads, help build our railroads, or do you want to continue to let corporations have tax loopholes for shipping jobs overseas? those kind of dividing lines are very similar, by the way, to what harry truman did in 1948, and they give democrats some hope they can come back. here he is on that point saying the republicans going after them on the deficit argument, using it against them, and, again, casting john boehner, the man with the tan, as the enemy of the middle class and a friend of the rich. here he is going after a guy who is basically a country club republican, nailing him. let