was you know, lame dealings in arkansas, 1980s that never amounted to anything and that s where it started. three independent prosecutors later, you have the blue dress in monica lewinsky and crazy. i m wondering if we are finally past that in our politics where people lean on independent prosecutor. the problem with a special prosecutor is that prosecutors prosecute. that s their goal in life. if you want to have an investigation of the goal, it is to establish exactly what happened. so as you say, yes, there has to be an investigation. but the approach to the prosecutor approach which has burned every administration now, regardless of party and regardless of guilt, too, jimmy carter s first couple of years where marred by a special prosecutor investigating hamilton s behavior at parties, it is a very it has always been a bad idea in the special prosecutor idea. but investigations, yes, sure. investigations to establish the facts. investigations quickly tend
that his popularity ratings would judgment when the unemployment rate got down to 6.5% if it could. since it hasn t and republicans have blocked every attempt he made to change things in the jobs situation, it is what these folks have done and i hate to repeat a point but they every time that this president attempts to make progress they stifle. we have dozens if not hundreds of presidential appointees that are empty because republicans will not basically approve anybody. you have a national labor relations board that is infective because it has two members in a quorum the s three. this has been the kind of blocking that s been done so that you can make an argument this president is infective and this is just additional piling on. i don t think that president obama s brain works stand dal-wise. i don t think he is the type of person you find in a scandal. you are not going to get a sex scandal. you are not going to get his hands on the cookie jar or fingerprints on anything tha
comment about ann romney not working and that this is going to turn women on obama. that sort of stuff. there is that. i wonder if there is an aspect to it. you talked about it a little bit this week. you talked to ezra klein of the washington post about this. about the partisan divide and how the divisions are so deep now that, you know, for anything to resonate, even something more substantive than hillary rosen or obama s comments about the economy last year or anything that resonate this climate and break that divide seems the standards. that s why you see the poll results that you were just showing us where you see this huge divide between democrats and republicans in their evaluation of obama s job performance and what we saw in the election as well. and you can go back to president bush before obama and saw the same thing in reverse. so they have warned the president not the president, his party, not to overreach. for my part beating up obama increases sympathy for
thing. if you are outlining exactly specifically what this means, this is also telling you exactly how to structure loopholes to get around it or structure organizations that are officially within the law bumt violate the spirit of the law and so that s what people always complain about. groups getting around, hard and why is it common sense? when people try to do it in a common sense way, this is what happens. there is a that s the issue. that s the issue here. idea this has fallen through the evolution of campaign finance, this has fallen to the irs and irs is clearly or was clearly woefully unprepared to deal with this latest evolution of a campaign finance, i want to talk about how we got to this, what the irs can do and if the irs should be doing anything at all when we come back. eeping? eeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule.
president. you are not going to have anything about a fake scandal. you take this irs scandal. the cheney approach to that would have been to say we did everything right. this is nonsense. let s move on. obama has denounced the facts of this scandal in stronger terms than are warranted by the facts. if this story in the new york times this morning paints a picture of this sad little office in cincinnati with his overwhelmed, underpaid, overworked civil servants with immense flood of applications for this charitable status and it is clear that most of them are coming from the huge majority of them are coming from right-wing groups. that s the ones they investigate. it wasn t just no. there was a percentage of liberal groups that were also investigated.