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harry reid had this to say. if we have work the weekend before christmas we will do that. if we work monday before christmas, we will do that. if we have to work through christmas, we are going to do that. i know the game they re playing. they have done it before. the only impediment to holding votes without delay and at reasonable hours is blatant part sh isan republican obstructionism. spending an entire week, wasting and waiting for a vote. this is a foregone conclusion whu what is going to happen. joining me congressional scholars and authors, extraordinaire, thomas mann senior fellow at brookings university, and norman orrinstein at the american enterprise institute and co-authors of it s even worse than it looks now available in paperback. tom, go to you first on this. it is even worse than it looks. it looks pretty bad. this seems to be the longest, most public display of
giant contract to help north korea build nuclear reactors. but when donald rumsfeld testified before the senate, they didn t ask about the stock that he held or his roles in international business. they didn t even ask about the north korean reactors. they recommended his nomination to the full senate where he was confirmed in another vote of 95-2. so if history has anything to say about it, then what s happening to chuck hagel right now is not at all normal. it is not the regular order of business in the united states senate. they never asked other defense nominees about this. the campaign to make chuck hagel reveal these reams of confidential information about private companies or else seems to have originated with the new guy, republican senator ted cruz. the guy from texas. long-time political scholar norman orrinstein calls this demand by senator cruz unprecedented. he continues, that a freshman senator would ask for that level of information says more about ted cruz than about a
the media need a quote from a political expert. i m pleased to have them here, doing their first sunday news program. thomas mann of the brookings institution and norman orrinstein of the american enterprise institute. and former president of the conservative independent women s forum. gentlemen, let s talk about the central thesis, which i think is one that people that covered, i spent a few years in washington as editor of the nation, covering the hill, it s very apparent if you re covering washington day by day. but i think poorly understood outside washington. this idea that we have a constitutional system set up. and we now have norms that have been established, particularly in the republican party. that are somehow intention with that constitutional system. elaborate what that story is. there really is a huge mismatch now between the kind of political parties we have, which are highly polarized, very