santorum don t believe what he s about, are going to say this is code. this is code to try to get into the whole argument, which you heard from both of these politicians that leads you to redistributionist theory, the notion of taking money away from people who quote unquote deserve it and giving to people who don t deserve it. and then you throw in the added racial element. that s another issue, too. long and short of it is this is the kind of debate that a lot of people want to have and it s funny. i m in south carolina right now. which is a place where every four years, we get into presidential politics, you see a huge amount of racial politics. and it s always curious the way the questions turn to race as you start moving a little bit closer to the south carolina primary. that said, you know, you have to take santorum at his word that he didn t mean what he was saying. i listened to it several times. i thaugts he was saying something like bly or maybe
around obama constitution technique. what about that? didn t the democrats do the same 1, 2, 3 inning to pr thing to president bush in doesn t they do the same thing? for starters, it was president bush s white house counsel who first said that making an appointments during pro forma sessions would be okay. the notion that it could get bush never did that. the notion it could give any more corrosive or partisan in washington seems hard to believe considering that republicans tried at all points to stop president obama s nominees be it for executive agencies, the courts, be it for anything he tries do. mitch mcconnell considers his number one job to stop the president from being re-elected. this is just one part of that. what about that, ari? there are a lot of democrats that feel that way. surement i remember whining about the same thing when i was the press secretary and democratic senate which is a democratic senate at the beginning of the bush administration under geor
were used in the bush administration. secondly, public financing, i mean the public finance system is broken. thirdly, the notion that the president shouldn t be able to do this job because mitch mcconnell doesn t think he should be relekted isn t how the government works. there say guy he ought to put in the job in order to run the consumer financial protection board. he s going to could that. it s his job to protect the american people. there was a way around there this. the problem is the future precedent he is setting. george bush yield it. the senate is in session. now that president obama break this egg, it will not get put back together. you created the precedent. in fairness, george bush cut a deal with members of the senate to allow some appointments to go through. the president had an opportunity
did no presidential signing statements. he said he would use them differently than the way they were used in the bush administration. secondly, public financing, i mean the public finance system is broken. thirdly, the notion that the president shouldn t be able to do this job because mitch mcconnell doesn t think he should be relekted isn t how the government works. there say guy he ought to put in the job in order to run the consumer financial protection board. he s going to could that. it s his job to protect the american people. there was a way around there this. the problem is the future precedent he is setting. george bush yield it. the senate is in session. now that president obama break this egg, it will not get put back together. you created the precedent. in fairness, george bush cut a deal with members of the senate to allow some
didn t the democrats do the sam thing to president bush in doesn t they do the same thing? for starters, it was president bush s white house counsel who first said that making an appointments during pro forma sessions would be okay. the notion that it could get bush never did that. the notion it could give any more corrosive or partisan in washington seems hard to believe considering that republicans tried at all points to stop president obama s nominees be it for executive agencies, the courts, be it for anything he tries do. mitch mcconnell considers his number one job to stop the president from being re-elected. this is just one part of that. what about that, ari? there are a lot of democrats that feel that way. surement i remember whining about the same thing when i was the press secretary and democratic senate which is a democratic senate at the beginning of the bush administration under george mitchell. they blocked bush s appointments to subcabinet agencies.