time a less than flattering politico story hit the presses. they asked where is the bain capital romney touted so much on the trail? the romney camp calls it silly process stuff. here at the cycle we call it perfect fodder for the spin, right? yes. first, kudos to politico, because this campaign is notoriously hard to access if you re a journalist not named fox news. politico brought us the most comprehensive look inside the inner workings of the north end, which i preached, even though it was painful to read as a conservative. second, i have a message for my conservative colleagues who seem to be engaging in this circular firing squad. calm down. let s chill out a little bit. this is not the end of the party as we know it. we will not be shutting down the party if romney does not win.
here is what the news station is follow right now. it means conservatives will be talking about this stuff, process stuff, how much they dislike the president, not about gas prices and joblessness. new strategy as president obama s attack on paul ryan s budget keeping republicans from continuing their attack on him because of gas prices and a new poll reveals a split between republicans and democrats over the media coverage for the trayvon martin case. clash on campus, santa monica college opens an investigation after campus police used pepper spray on the students there. perfection. baylor women s basketball team nets a place in history. details on the record-setting championship win and the
h halpirn. let s see what he had to say. the stuff he seeded in the speech drives conservatives crazy and it means conservatives will talk about this stuff, process stuff, and how much they discliek the president, not about gas prices. bring in zachary karabel to talk about it. the discussion was about the ryan budget plan and the president coming after that budget plan and calling it social darwinism, and trojan horse and could it distract from gas prices? how can be be a valid stra egg and what do you think of the theory? i respect mark and his views on politics. i am not sure this is one thing negates the other but to the degree that obama can focus on what is a much more long-term set of issues, the cost of health care, the feasibility of
local officials who are elected by their citizens to be able to fix their problems. that may lead to a disagreement or two of two. i could say it nicely in the way you might be more comfortable with, maybe we could go back to the last administration where i could say it in a way you wouldn t understand it but the fact is, this is who i am. and this is who the people elected. and so you guys want to continue to talk about this process stuff, about my tone, my combativeness. we got them standing in the doorway of the senate saying they won t hearing on a enormously qualified supreme court nominee but that s not combative, of course not. this is who i am. like it or not, you guys are stuck with me for four years and i m going to say things direct
his energy, environmental legislation, there is immigration, there s more jobs legislation. so there s a lot. and he s been tackling a lot. he is a president that can keep more than one ball in the air. but there is no question this is eating up a lot of time and a lot of political capital. but i will say on this question of passage, look. the republicans got angry about reconciliation. they say all the reagan tax cuts were done by that, c.h.i.p. program, then they get upset about this latest round and in 2003, 2005, when the republicans were in control, they passed 36 bills with this technique. democrats in the last two years did 49 bills. well, you know, as i say, i think this is process stuff. i think there will be i agree with pat in one sense. there will be folks complaining,