ramesh, you are apock lip tick conservatism. senator mike lee, who is part of what david gregory was talking about as the rejection group. he s somebody that wants to be a governing conservative at the same time. he s advanced his proposals. it s interesting we have some of the most creative policy thinking in the republican party coming out of that end of the party. and the question is, of course, you have heritage which, of course, is republicans remember back in 81, 82, 83, 48. heritage helps more than anybody make conservative an intellectual force. you had education alternatives.
you take h this thing. you take this mba policy thinking. that s the problem with ed policy now. it s the this view of problems that are more complex. it s like saying a teacher will get lazy when they have tenure. a teacher wants to teach. why else would you take a [ bleep ] salary and really long hours and do that job? 10% where do you get that number? maybe you re a [ bleep ] cameraman, i don t know. reaction from michelle fields, mark hannah, good for you, a. b, what a phony. love it is public schools, send your own kids there. he loves talking them up but doesn t want to send his kids there. he said he didn t have a choice. he had to do it. he did have a choice. the people who don t have a choice are the rest of americans who can t afford to send their kids to a private school.
dominance of policy thinking ended when barack obama was elected president. but today was the day that the obama administration made the single biggest play to define what comes next. today, he nominated chuck hagel, in doing, he nominated the first vietnam veteran. he understands that sending young americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that is something we only do when it is absolutely necessary. my frame of reference, he has said, is geared to the guy at the bottom who is doing the fighting and the dying. with chuck, our troops will always know just like sergeant hagel was there for his own
ugly event in libya just before the election, and second, the more serious policy issue is what exactly was the administration, the white house and the state department, doing during that period when this big fire fight was taking place in benghazi? and i think the white house has been trying to sweep this issue away in the wake of the election and i think these senators are entitled to keep pressing to find out what happened then. paul: so, susan rice s nomination becomes an opportunity in dan s telling to try to get at that story, that libya story. it s actually an opportunity to get at what the nature of the obama administration foreign policy is, paul. and susan rice in some ways encapsulates a strain in democratic policy thinking that goes way back, a story that s actually told by samantha power, a close aide to president obama and wrote about genocide in with a randa. and susan rice is state department that makes a cameo appearance in the book, quoted asking, if we call what
ugly event in libya just before the election, and second, the more serious policy issue is what exactly was the administration, the white house and the state department, doing during that period when this big fire fight was taking place in benghazi? and i think the white house has been trying to sweep this issue away in the wake of the election and i think these senators are entitled to keep pressing toind out what happened then. paul: so, susan rice s nomination becomes an opportunity in dan s telling to try to get at that story, that libya story. it s actually an opportunity to get at what the nature of the obama administration foreign policy is, paul. and susan rice in some ways encapsulates a strain in democratic policy thinking that goes way back, a story that s actually told by samantha power, a close aide to president obama and wrote about genocide in with a randa. and susan rice is state department that makes a cameo appearance in the book, quoted asking, if we call what