Because they are earned in the view of these people, rightly or wrongly. To a significant degree, wrongly. And significantly antielitist, that theres a wisdom in the collective that the elites often are combating. He wrote, and i thought this was quite a remarkable statement, the tea party is jacksonian american aroused, angry, and above all fearful backed by the new american demography that threatens its interests and scorns its values. They view obama as a sort of, having a conscious strategy of Building Political support by increasing americas dependence on government, and they i in polls of the tea party conducted by Pew Research Center and others suggest that these people consider obama as pushing america towards socialism. Well, thats not entirely wrong in the sense that obama seems to be ad slow candidate of advocate of europeanstyle social democracy. So this is a powerful strain in american politics. It has significant antecedents in our political tradition. It may not be a big
Implementation that has cost the american taxpayers over 400 million the cost is continuing to rise. These are more than glitches. They cant be fixed. Im going to explain why i believe they cant be fixed when i get back. It can be replaced. I dont know the large cost to the american taxpayer but they cant be fixed. I will explain that when i get back. What was going on, that changed came in to two weeks before so people couldnt just browse and take a look at it. That appears to be a political change. I know, you cant make that statement. Let me ask you this, when the request came in from cms did you tell them it was going cause difficulties in getting the website lawmpleghted by october 1 . Its us, its a flag in the system. We turned the flag on and turned it off for the particular component. You didnt think it posed any problems with any system. Thats correct. And mr. Slavitt, if i read your testimony, it says you reported you did some testing and reported back to the cms and the rele
Of the trumans in key west, and it looks like he relaxed that. He did. His fashion sense was remarked upon in key west. The hawaii shirt. The flashy shirt. Fits in now. Yes. They took movies of them partying arounds, carrying on, and he let it go at the masons or went to the big Masonic Building there, interrupted and said, here, im harry. Can you imagine the president being this casual today . He was, but he was in control. Casually in control. No. Why not . Because of the media or things changed. Look at the blarehouse assassination attempt with the president watching this happen. They dont have the freedom to move around like they used to. There was no way that was going to happen. Harry truman was elected, surprising the press, the political establishment to a second term and busy term it was. This is a list of the highlights of the second truman administration. The establishment of nato, the korean war, assassination attempt we talked about, and the 22nd amendment to the constitut
Traditions, how do you resolve the differences in what role does the difference between the traditions play in assessing the original meaning of the constitution . Well, like Justice Clarence thomas i take the view that the declaration of independence has relevance to the interpretation of the constitution. I know thats a controversial issue that many of my colleagues would exclude the declaration of this not having anything to do with the interpreting any of the bill of rights or whatever. And i take it from the description in the declaration, some of which i quoted that these are principles that have recognizable parentage. I derive from those passages the story based on the natural law heritage. But again as i mentioned in my remarks, theres natural law and natural rights. The overlap is probably 95 . Its more of a scientific approach that has been popular among many philosophers. I dont regard it will as confrontational. I dont think we planned it but these last three questions fro
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