terror. as chairman of the judiciary committee, biden will oversee the supreme court hearing while continuing his run for president. amid everything biden starts to get debilitating headaches but works through the pain. so the headaches started. it is not like he said, i got a terrible headache. you will just notice he is popping some aspirin. during his campaign, biden is inspired by a speech given by british labor part leader and begins referencing it on the trail. kneneil kennick was telling personal story about the dignity of working class life, about the potential of building something better for the next generation, about the role government can play in helping families like that, and so he did start making it kind of a staple of his message on the campaign trail. almost every major press person in the country had heard me repeatedly attribute that quotation to kennick. could be made of the time
important. do i think this is going to move the needle? not necessarily. but i do think that it may have awoken some folks who haven t followed this health care debate as intensely as some of us have. this is from new york magazine, they put it this way. jimmy kimmel might have struck a final blow against a gop health care plan. what do you think? maybe. this is close to a final blow already, before jimmy kimmel even talked. i think we sometimes overestimate the reach of people like jimmy kimmel. we live in a very partisan and divided country. and people have made up their minds in terms of what they think the role government should have in terms of health ware. we re past the era of johnny carson, when everyone tuned in to johnny carson at night. this health care bill is so full of problems already, and lots of
ale page there in 1966. my eyes welled up at the sight of him and the sense of unity he brought. however, he was more lyndon johnson than fulton sheen in the message that he gave with active role government should play in people s lives. i want to listen in if we have sound there. this is cardinal dolan at st. patrick s. he has something else to show off as pope francis kisses one of the cross there is. he s showing off st. patrick s cathedral which just finished $175 million in renovation, a complete renovation that took some time. so cardinal dolan is a proud tour guide, if you will of the cathedral. it s something pope francis obviously wanted to see. ron, your thoughts about the day and the visit so far overall. i just want to say as a
it s because the way our government is set up. it is designed to have a single head who is in charge. the same way many companies have ceos. they also have boards. he has the joint chief of staff. he has his cabinet members who are in charge of each sector of the government. do i think it s a tough job. i do think some of it is, we have more access to the president. we have more access to congressmen and senators, that s a good thing. at the same time there s so much time with the job now spent playing defense with both parties on both sides and that s good and bad. but i don t think it s too much for one man at all and i think if we had more than one in charge it would be a total disaster if that s what we had in this country. it would not work very well at all. mark, what do you think? too much for one person? yeah. i think it s not too much for one man or woman, but i do think that we have to re-imagine the role government plays here. one of the challenges is in 2014
there is an ideological sort of i guess we could call steel rod that undergirds the inaction in congress, which makes me think that we are as far apart as we have been on economic policy to deal with joblessness. it really goes to the core of each party at this point. absolutely. i think annie put it really well, i think. that republicans if you ask them will say, it s time for the government to get out of the way would essentially i think be the answer on these long term unemployed insurance benefits extension. because they say there s no proof of fact that it does in fact help people go and get jobs. this isn t necessary it s the government s role to play in a crisis situation. we are no longer in a crisis. well, that goes right back to the sort of fundamental difference between the two parties, alex, of what role government should play. republicans generally think government should be smaller and play less of a role, democrats think it should be bigger, and