nothing to do with your abuilt to be commander-in-chief. we have gotten to a point now where literally it is some crazy inverse reality tv show gone mad. where the most important factor is can you be funny on late night? we have got wars, we ve got an economy in the trash can, and donald trump is an insult comb wh who has taken over the airwaves. bet you would not have given that add stris vice, president bill clinton, go on, show them you can be human. remember the saxophone on arsenio hall. that was a turning point in the clinton campaign. i would look to jump in here. it can matter for some candidates at certain points. if they have an image as a clown, which donald trump does. it can hurt them. if it is somebody like hillary clinton who need an opportunity to show warmth, human side of her, some authenticity it can help her. hurt her if she looks too
colleagues at the new yorker. and today s decision by the same court striking down this very important and controversial part of obama care. they highlight how important the courts are. but, rick, there s an asymmetry between the left and the right on this score. yeah. the left, the democrats never used never used the filibuster in this way. if it s court packing to a po t point two new judges to an 11-member court. what happens when the next supreme court opening comes up? is it going to be packing the court for the president to nominate? that s a great point. if justice scalia says i love his descents, they sound like someone in a workplace where he has to work with the biggest idiots in the universe. i can t believe i have to come to work with these idiots. he s one of the most brilliant people in the country, but scalia decides he s had it, right, he retires and there s now a vacancy.
president obama s presidency is defined by a health care law proving more difficult to implement and more costly than projected and massive build ups of debt and federal spending. that is his legacy at this po t point. i do agree immigration reform has a good chance of passing. i thought he was shrewd to pick it up in the context of president bush s library opening and to say president bush had it right on the immigration issue. no day in the presidency is an easy day with only one set of decisions. you have a will the of big things happening across the world and big, troubling issues to deal with. chuck, you wrote this legacy issue in first read this week. it is. karen, i m curious if you were to sit down with president obama, how long would you tell him that he has for a legislative agenda in a second term? probably a year. probably a year. you have one year and i think that s what they re operating on. and i think that the gun thing, you know, they always knew they were goin
implement and more costly than projected and massive build ups of debt and federal spending. that is his legacy at this po t point. i do agree immigration reform has a good chance of passing. i thought he was shrewd to pick it up in the context of president bush s library opening and to say president bush had it right on the immigration issue. no day in the presidency is an easy day with only one set of decisions. you have a will the of big things happening across the world and big, troubling issues to deal with. chuck, you wrote this legacy issue in first read this week. it is. karen, i m curious if you were to sit down with president obama, how long would you tell him that he has for a legislative agenda in a second term? probably a year. probably a year. you have one year and i think that s what they re operating on. and i think that the gun thing, you know, they always knew they were going to lose. they just didn t know they were going to lose so quickly. it does put more p