reasons. number one, if he does repudiate or doesn t enforce the paris agreements, it will be very, very difficult to bring the nations back together again. that was a singular extraordinary accomplishment of barack obama. but, if he listens to the will of the people, he will not do that. obviously he has talked about scrapping some of the trade agreements, scrapping the iran nuclear treaty. i think those are going to be very, very difficult. trump is going to learn that bluster is not policy. now, in 2009, after president bush s second term, a survey of u.s. historians ranked him 36 out of 43 presidents. at the end of president obama s second term, how will historians view him? well, i think a lot is going to depend on how sturdy some of
with just a few days left in the session, a new report finds that this congress is one of the least productive on record. only 52 laws have been passed since january. compare that to the 113 new laws during the first year of president bush s second term. experts say fewer lawmakers are willing to work toward a consensus. president obama wrapped up a west coast tour with a visit to the dreamworks studio near los angeles. president obama says, thanks to television and movies, the rest of the world has had a front-row seat for america s march toward progress. the president noted that shows like abc s modern family helps to transmit american values to millions around the globe. no early christmas present for o.j. simpson who lost his recent bid for a new trial and possible freedom. a judge in las vegas rejected all of his claims that his lawyer had a conflict of interest, and his attorney concealed the chance of a plea bargain deal, and that his lawyer was incompetent. simpson is ser
term went on. you get a sense that republicans in washington feel that they re empowered. do they do the masters of disaster would take all the information and dump it out and try to swamp the media and the public with all the facts, get the bad news out as soon as they could. or do they do what george bush did, which is to say there s nothing to see here, you know, dissembling on iraq, dissembling on katrina, being clearly out of touch and look what it did to president bush s second term. the credibility issue kills presidents on the second term. it seems that republicans are falling all over themselves to get in front of the irs story. easy politics, easy political hit. do you sense there will be some. i saw mitch mcconnell, his note was ohm about the irs. house republicans seem a little more interested in benghazi. almost as if there s a split among congressional republicans. where do you go after the president? i think it s easy to overplay the benghazi issue.
you hear some republicans say it s past january 1st, and the big deal is spending cuts. we were talking about possibly $2 trillion in cuts a couple weeks ago, and now we re getting a very, very small amount. the republicans say, well, the cuts are going to come in 2013, but president obama s saying i m not going to play that debt ceiling game, or i m not going to negotiate cuts with the debt ceiling. republicans say, well, they are they re going to demand cuts, or they won t raids the debt ceiling raise the debt ceiling. this is the frustration among conservatives, that the cuts always come later, they don t come now. and that s why there are going to be a lot of no votes from house republicans. rick: i remember president bush s second term statement that he had collected political capital, and he intended to use it. on the president s side here, how much political capital has he spent on this deal right now? well, he certainly spent some. he s going to spend a lot on immigration
latinos back into the tent. well, we can talk about that but there s a lot more than rove. i want to finish this point first, dandana. rush limbaugh is having to increasingly move the party to the right is another thing being attacked. politico points out this quote, for nearly six years since president bush s second term went south, republicans have been effectively without a leader. and into that vacuum has stepped a series of conservative figures whose incentives in most cases are not to win votes but to make money and score ratings by being provocative and even outlandish. that s very interesting point there, dana. yeah, i think so, reverend. and this whole notion that there