torture. but the audience out there, they don t need to pay a lot of attention to see that it s mildly a musing, if you will. we re still early in the construction cycle, these debates will not count for very much except they will whittle down. they complain about how it s handled in states, and it s puzzling to me why they haven t made better use of this. they re getting hour after hour and week after week. they could be endajd in a political harbor. the other clay on the day between israel, and the head of the defense industry and dweps
country is the president. back to the panel here, guys. there is a lot of, i think, analysis in terms of why the president is doing what he s doing of late in the last couple of months, and i want to play jay kearney s response, again, on the supercommittee versus the white house stance. is this political calculation on the part of the white house? listen to what kearney said yesterday. let s be clear about what the supercommittee is. it s a congressional committee established by an act of congress written by members of congress to include members of congress, not administration officials, not the president, to do their job. and their job is not as hard as a lot of people make it out to be. this is, i feel, the most aggressive they have been in terms of fitting the white house with a do-nothing congress. is it going to work, maggie? i don t think it s going to work. this gets harder for the president, especially the closer
this is like a bick electoral problem for him the way he took out rick perry. that to me, with all due respect to dan, i think that has a huge consequence for this election. they are going to navigate in a lot of ways, the to take pure sign. it s worth saying, though, process is ongoing. now we re talking about the ride of newt gingrich, and you certainly can t be dismissed for his charge account, philandering, multiple showing as a potentially serious candidate. absolutely, don t rule it out. anybody who has covered newt gingrich over the years knows
inequality. they ve already done a tremendous service to the country by changing the conversation. now, those of us that are in specific constituency groups, organizations or a particular point of view can take the climate that they have helped to set and say, this is what needs to go. but let s not act like they didn t create the climate. sir, i d like to follow on that point which is, how successful do you think they ve been in terms of bringing in other good people, labor groups, teachers groups or unions. is there outreach there? i ve seen a lot of groups, african-american groups, civil rights groups, and contrary to some reports, everyone has been welcomed as long as had he so. they ve been very, very open with that. speaking of kidnapping the
battles have waged. he was hurt in the last polls. the standoff seems to be working well for him. but if we look at this in the broader lens of presidential politics, this attraction and this kind of war among legislative branches seems to be worse than it has been in periods of administration. there s no question. historically, and i ve tried to do some research on this, you would have to go back to the arguments about slavery in the middle of the 19th century. define a congress that is this split and this do-nothing. not in the 1920s, not since then. the situation is very clear to the president. he doesn t want to be associated with this. it s one thing to say, i want some distance, but i think it told you a lot about how you went to see this thing. the fact of the matter is that congress is housed in the hands