and not in all of his meetings as much. we have seenly see him lose a sense of standing in the west wing that he once had when he first entered late last summer when he replaced rans priebus. and after hope hicks left, they are seeing what it will look like. she was near presence for the president. and i m told she hasn t been there the last few weeks since she an announced she is leaving. and at times the president has s summoned her named to find out she s not there. as they travel to ohio and florida if asked if the president is done finally shaking up staff. because we have seen so many depa depart tours departures in the last few weeks. and her answer was telling, she
but there aren t any republican party and that s the problem. you ve got to ask yourself, too, i m trying to think of a sports metaphor, like having a case of the chickenpox that mask your sprained ankle. the affordable care act provided the smoke screen so they don t have to deal with the instructial problems within the party. republicans made zero progress reaching out to any demographic groups, women, young people, latino, autopsy, the famous rans priebus document they have to stay alive for that great tea party rally in the sky. you re seeing a conflict between the fact the party wants durable majorities and beholden to shrinking monochromatic base. i think it would be a real conservative to replace boehner at some point, could wake up to the fact not about insufficient conservatism.
majority. rewarding rule breakers, no border security, no special written amnesty bill. how do you reach out to blacks, asians, hispanics and other minorities. my answer is, same way you reach out to white people. we re not running against john kerry and al gore any more. the old ways used to work. but they re not going to work any more. we me now to help assess the gop s progress or lack thereof is none other than former dnc chairman and my former boss, governor howard dean. happy father s day to you. thanks, karen. i refer to you as my former boss. i know, i appreciate it. here is the thing that strikes me. back in march when priebus announced the play book it sounded to me like a lot of what he did is take our talking point and a lot of what you talked about specifically when owe talked about the need to show up
talk to people and reach out and be in communities, but here is what struck me, governor. when we did what we did, we had polling that showed that people agreed with us. it was a matter of changing how we talked about things. but when you look at where the republicans are, majority of people don t agree with them. and yet they think it is just a matter of changing some words around. well, first of all, i do think we have to give rans rans priebus some cred the. they allow the extremes to live in this fantasy that they are the majority. they are not the majority. it is not just about values. a lot of stuff you just played in that clip was about hey, it was about anger about immigrants, gays, women, women
around here. remember, priebus calls them completely awesome. they re completely awesome. this, that passes for youth and innovation in the capitol. look, this is the generation that was coming of age when ronald reagan was in the white house. they read ayn rand. and they have some notion that what s been going wrong for the republican party late ly is it hasn t been extreme enough. now, and, of course, we ll see cpac later this week that is absolutely dominated by these guys. this is the mattparty right now. i suppose the only hope is they might mellow with age. based on what i saw at paul ryan s news conference this morning, they have a little bit more to go before the mellowing begins. i think that s probably true. joy, this is the third time in as many years that we ve seen the magnum dopus of ayn rand fiction. the budget. i mean, we ve heard this every year for the last three years. do we need it for another year next year? it s the same stuff, isn t it?