final position on iraq, and i ve talked to him about it, is, well we re better off because saddam is no longer there. he still feels he made the right decision. the problem here is not the gasp and he said yes, no, maybe, and all of the above essentially. it is how do you deal with foreign policy issues like that how do you decide to go to war and who do you rely on. it s shaky. and for republicans, sam tine, who have been looking to jeb bush for the big money people as the competent candidate who could win, their confidence also shaken this week. i agree. i think bob nails it. the question the real question is not knowing what you know now would you have done it it s knowing what you knew then would you have done it. if you had been in george w. bush s shoes which even if the biggest boosters of the war
not being re-elected. but i also think they give the gun lobby way too much credit. let s take harry reid, who has coward before the gun lobby if harry reid thinks it s gun lobbyists who got him back in the election, he s nuts. he lost the male vote. it was the obama coalition of union voters, young voters who put harry reid back in office. people like harry reid give the gun lobby far too much credit. sam, what s your reaction to that?
jam the action in the house. it s got to action or the house won t act. chris, the problem with the house majority, the republican majority is that, first of all, it s highly difficult to move those right wingers. they are all from safe districts. and so it is difficult to put pressure on them. i do think, however, it would be possible to embarrass john boehner into at least staging a vote. i remember president obama in his state of the union speech, don t the parents of newtown deserve a vote? don t the children of newtown deserve a vote? so let s at least force the house into an up and down vote on this bill. sam, will that work, that kind of an appeal? yes, it will work because a number of house republicans who ran in 2010, including some in pennsylvania, obviously representative griffin from staten island and representative peter king as well from new york. delaware county. exactly.
it s highly difficult to move those right wingers. they are all from safe districts. and so it is difficult to put pressure on them. i do think, however, it would be possible to embarrass john boehner into at least staging a vote. i remember president obama in his state of the union speech, don t the parents of newtown deserve a vote? don t the children of newtown deserve a vote? so let s at least force the house into an up and down vote on this bill. sam, will that work, that kind of an appeal? yes, it will work because a number of house republicans who ran in 2010, including some in pennsylvania, obviously representative griffin from staten island and representative peter king as well from new
purchases, but for all those who care about gun safety, let me repeat what i said, get ahold of your senator or member of congress and say you want a real background check on people who buy guns. get ahold of your senator, by calling 202-224-3121. if you don t know your senator or member of congress, fine, just go to www.house.gov. and enter your zip code to find out who your congressman is. and www.senate.gov to find your senator. you can then click on his or her name when it pops up. it will take you to their website with all their contact information. look, at the switchboards are jammed, wait a few minutes and try again. it means we re working, this thing is working. it s a good sign of the impact you re having. cynthia tucker is with the university of georgia, and sam tine is with the huffington post. sam, i hear you have some news,