we haven t seen that report. we re coming upon a year of this coming to light. and i m sure republicans are going to have one-year anniversaries on this. but to keep this in the news, neil, as you know, you have to have something new. and we haven t seen something new in a while. i think they re trying to run out of the clock. i just think whether there s something here or not, and there are obviously a lot of dots you can connect, and maybe they feel the attention will drift, it will soon be the midterm elections and then people will forget about this irs scandal, so no reason for lois lerner to cop to any sort of a deal, no incentive too. no, yeah, that s right. and we ve seen very different statements from the white house, the president, democrats on capitol hill. when this broke, everybody said this was intolerable, we need to get to the bottom of this. but as this investigation has dragged on, democrats have definitely, effectively muddied the water, and said, listen, this is
ed henry knows a little bit about that and he joins us from the white house. give us the summary. well, dana, what s interesting, as you ll remember from your final year or two of the bush administration, dealing with the end of the administration, where we use that dreaded phrase, small ball, where there s not a lot of new ideas, not a lot of major initiatives. you re kind of running out the clock. for this president, he may be getting there a little sooner. he obviously has a couple more state of the union addresses to go, but all the signals we re getting from the administration is there will not be a lot of new ideas. instead, what he s going to do is two-fold, saying he s still willing to work with republicans in the house on issues like immigration reform, but he realizes it s an uphill battle, but if that doesn t work, he s willing to go at it alone with executive orders, executive actions. and he made a little movement on that today with the minimum wage. for example, we ca
i got the vhs tape that christmas in 1985. my whole family s from chicago so we were coming up as bears fans. i got the vhs tape, had it memorized in about two days or so. my favorite verse the probably the last from the fridge. we can t talk about your book without talking about the phenomenon. william the refrigerator perry scoring the touchdown in the super bowl. he just exploded. a big back story to that is the bears lost the 84 nfc title game to the 49ers to bill walsh who ditka referred to as the genius, in quotes. at the end of that game to run out the clock, walsh gave ball to a guard and called it the angus formation. to ditka, this was like a coded insult. when they got back to san francisco, running out the clock, they gave it to a big fat offensive guard. last year we re going to give it to a big fat defensive lineman. they gave it to the fridge and he became a phenomenon to the point in chicago we had the
they will have hearings tomorrow and i expect the legislature to manage this in an appropriate way and get it done way before the 30-day period of the legislation in the special session. you are suspending the rule that would require two-thirds approval to bring up debate. but you said mob rule a characterization that you have used before. senator davis stood up and filibustered under the rules. did the fish and wildlife constitute mcrule? guest: not at all, you are misrepresenting what i am saying, it was the gallery that was out of control, literally, with no ability to hear what was going on, on the senate floor. anyone who watched that would consider that mob rule and to do it with the express purpose of running out the clock. filibusters happen all the time and i suspect if someone wants to try to filibuster again they
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