to check out rosen s e-mails and phone calls. what is the real political fallout here? i put that question to cnn contributor. the a.p. scandal is serious. you have the justice department identifying a journalist as a coconspirator for publishing information. that is chilling. that is something that the president recognizes is absolutely too far to the spirit. i think the irs scandal ultimately is more damaging because it is much more resonant to the average american. the irs never wins popularity contest. when you see the irs limiting the trust it has in the american people by targeting conservative groups that is serious. that is why it is a result of bipartisan criticism. this past week you saw lerner, the irs executive in charge of
their solution was to stop publishing the report. the push administration just eliminated that annual terrorism report once it included something very politically inconvenient. the bush administration had a habit of doing that. you don t like the data being provided. get rid of the data. a year earlier the bush administration, which was a big proponent of charter schools, they were faced with a new report from their own education department showing that charter school kids were falling behind public school kids. how do you deal with your own administration s data on underperforming charter schools? well, you cut back on the data that you collect about charter schools. the bush administration just announced they d be collecting less data going forward. in 2003, after a bush administration labor department report detailed mass layoffs in the manufacturing sector, the bush administration just announced that they were going to stop publishing information about mass layoffs in the manufactu
they were going to stop publishing information about mass layoffs. if we get rid of the data pointing to a problem, maybe the data wouldn t look so bad. the obvious move is to get rid of it. this was a hall mark of the george w. bush administration and it appears to be one of the things that mr. romney liked very much about the george w. bush administration. it at least appears to be one of the things that he s promising to bring back. you don t like the data presented? kill the report. after the totally unimpeachable ly did a report concluded that romney s plan would be great for rich people and hurt everybody else, the response to that was to go guns blazing against the center. you don t like the message, shoot the messenger. last month after the bureau of labor statistics announced the unemployment rate was going down, the right started
once it included something very politically inconvenient. the bush administration had a habit of doing this. if you don t like the data, get rid of the data. earlier they were face wd a new report from their own education department showing that charter school kids were falling behind public school kids. how do you deal with your own administration s data on underperforming charter schools? you cut back on the data that you collect about charter schools. the bush administration just announced they would be collecting less data going forward. in 2003, after the bush administration labor department report detailed mass layoffs in the manufacturing sector, the bush administration announced they were going to stop publishing information about mass layoffs. if we get rid of the data pointing to a problem, maybe the data wouldn t look so bad. the obvious move is to get rid
the bush administration had a habit of doing this. if you don t like the data, get rid of the data. earlier they were faced with a new report from their own education department showing that charter school kids were falling behind public school kids. how do you deal with your own administration s data on underperforming charter schools? you cut back on the data that you collect about charter schools. the bush administration just announced they would be collecting less data going forward. in 2003, after the bush administration labor department report detailed mass layoffs in the manufacturing sector, the bush administration announced they were going to stop publishing information about mass layoffs. if we get rid of the data pointing to a problem, maybe the data wouldn t look so bad.