a michael cohen story, the term team of screwballs goes through my head. as he entered the white house, chris christie in a book that comes out calls them second raters, nuts and grifters. all that being said, i think perhaps some of the background that we saw from mr. giuliani last night is the fact that this now voluble, now eager-to-talk michael cohen is going to testify before a congressional committee, which is to say before the united states and i think katty s february 7th i think is the date. so that s going to be colorful,
acts so avuncular, so sure of himself in his presentation. a lot of middle-of-the-road people bought it. just watching that again, chris, was both infuriating and upsetting. we lived through that time. we were lied to, flat out lied to in that way, and for him to say that the president is appointing second-raters, that was first rate bilge. good choice of words. i can t say more. if that s what first rate is, i ll take the second rate. you know, joan, his avuncular fashion, that we now know, that bonding he did with the viewer, i know the trick. it s almost criminal. we, we now know, we now know, talking to whoever he is talking to at the anchor desk, establishing a bond among those reasonable people, all the time pushing this bilge. all the time pushing stuff he had conspired with his chief of staff and whatever his press wing was at the time to feed into the new york times, feed in the national news so people would say he can t be lying all the time and coming up with great
qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the 90s, that it involved training, for example, on bw and cw, that al qaeda sent personnel to baghdad to get trained on the systems. it provided the iraqis providing bomb making expertise to the al qaeda organization. where do you learn to be that evil? he sat there and brilliantly conspired. he had judy miller writing the stories for the week. meet the press, does the alley-oop play. acts so avuncular, so sure of himself in his presentation. a lot of middle-of-the-road people bought it. just watching that again, chris, was both infuriating and upsetting. we lived through that time. we were lied to, flat out lied to in that way, and for him to say that the president is appointing second-raters, that was first rate bilge.
krugman s column today. he said the president seems to be doing everything he can to convince the people who put him in office that they made an embarrassing decision. he has a nobel prize not in politics. it has an element of truth in it. the stimulus should have been bigger. it wouldn t have been bigger. it was the biggest possible stimulus you could pass. the last line of his column today, democrats need to look elsewhere for leadership, is a recipe for suicide. look, i ve been in campaigns that have done well, campaigns that have fallen short or in the case of gore, a campaign i believe was basically stolen from the guy who won. when you re doing well you re all geniuses. so all of the people around barack obama were geniuses in 2008. when things are tough people think you re second raters. i think things are going to get better. i think we re driving toward a narrative in 2012 where the president will say, i made tough decisions, we re on the right path, america s coming back.
krugman s column today. he said the president seems to be doing everything he can to convince the people who put him in office that they made an embarrassing decision. he has a nobel prize not in politics. it has an element of truth in it. the stimulus should have been bigger. it wouldn t have been bigger. it was the biggest possible stimulus you could pass. the last line of his column today, democrats need to look elsewhere for leadership, is a recipe for suicide. look, i ve been in campaigns that have done well, campaigns that have fallen short or in the case of gore, a campaign i believe was basically stolen from the guy who won. when you re doing well you re all geniuses. so all of the people around barack obama were geniuses in 2008. when things are tough people think you re second raters. i think things are going to get better. i think we re driving toward a narrative in 2012 where the president will say, i made tough decisions, we re on the right path, america s coming back.