mouse s copyright is about to run out. they say we re going to extend another what is it 98 years? 98 years. and that goes against. the whole reason you have at copyright, it s in the constitution that you have copyright, so that people will create, right? exactly. but at a certain point, you start to hem in creation if you don t let things in the public domain. how many times has a documentary film maker said, oh, we can t use the happy birthday scene because you don t want to pay for that song. we can t put it in because it has this song in it. absolutely. and sometimes it s an important story point. and you can t use it, so, yes, it s been inhibiting. are they going to appeal this? i imagine they will.
incomes to rise while homeowners see the value of their houses a the a six-year high. the president has been focusing on a couple of these issues in his speeches and will continue to do so today. he said last week five years after the start of the the great recession, america has fought its way back. is that really true or is it still kind of convoluted? i think what the president was talking about was we dealt with the near-term crisis that impacted our economy in late 2008, the economy is growing, it s adding jobs. but, you know, typically and this is true with a lot of our response in government over decades we re good in responding to the immediate dangers of a crisis but the ap story point out the fact that we have a long-term crisis to be dealt with.
in positions that are not even controversial, but it would actually be helpful to the functioning of governance. there are so many different metrics to measure this. since we re talking about executive appointments i think in the whole history of this grand country of ours,ing 20, 20 presidential appointees have been blocked by filibusters up till president obama s time and 16 have been blocked by these republicans. so they have really gone out of their ways to set historic records in terms of obstructionism and yet, we in washington and i think more in the general media haven t fully gotten to this narrative story point that this is far and beyond what we ve ever seen before. that s why reid should have ended it today and it s too bad he didn t. thank you both. we ll be right back in a moment.