answer. i m reluctant to answer this since you haven t given me a bowl of pasta, but that s like in the job bur view what s your biggest flaw? i m too trusting of people i work too hard. that wasn t the problem. either the problem was he knew what was going on he was complicit, or he wasn t managing his office properly. he defied the first rule in scandals, as steve was saying, get the information out there, get it out there quickly. he didn t do that and now it doesn t really matter. my experience as a longtime political guy is you reflect the boss. you end up being him or her sooner or later. thank you. you end up dressing and talking like them. steve, thank you for being ahead of this story, and dana milbank. up next author kate anderson brower talked to hundreds of employees upstairs about what goes on up there.
election because it would have required doing things the electorate wouldn t like. the senate, harry reid couldn t bring bills to the floor because he couldn t get 60 votes shut down debate. so both parties are responsible but threat not the point. the point is this is last year s work. you re right about that. and both parties are to play. but on this, maybe you can help me. i have been watching the fight over what is going to become of the healthcare law, whether you take away provisions, seems to be a coalition building, even among some formerly resistant democrats to remove onerous features like the surgical device tax and all the rest, not clear as to how to make up for the revenue. i m hearing other powerful democrats, including senator tom harken, who is saying we had the power to do it in a way that would have simply identified health care, referring to the law, made it more efficient and
ponderosa buffet. neil, come on. you pass a piece of legislation. it is a complex piece of legislation. and you need to see how it operates you have no regrets at all? i have regrets we didn t take more time to consider it in a way that was appropriate legislative process, and that is to go to a conference committee. the only reason we couldn t go to a conference committee is because the republicans would not vote to i don t want to play the medical device tax is going. let me tell you what. we have large debts in this country. you know why? because people don t like to pay for these things. this is a pay for in the bill. if we take out the tax we need to substitute itself with some other way to pay for it elm the republican congress and the house of representatives passed $600 billion in tax cuts over the last four months that were not paid for. that is in the same thing. nothing likes to pay nor things
are going to commit that money to the stores and what have you and that s going to more make up for that difference. you say what? i think we will see a little another of that. people will feel better now that price are lower on gas. but we have to focus on the jobs created in this industry, and the shale, and shale oil industrial, not just in the drilling in transport in building the rail cars, in the towns that have sprung up and create these different businesses. those will also disappear. the incomes will disappear overnight and by early next year a lot of companies will go under. some of the bigger ones will survive. there s history for that 68 early 80s that s what happened. right. exactly. and we re probably going to see it again, neil. kevin, thank you. just another side of something that everyone goes one way, but what people get can be taken back. if the republican speaker needs democratic help to keep the government running is that
is very low. man. when it rains it pours. all right, secretary. we might be slow, kathleen, but we re not stupid. we have learn from experience that we re not the problem. you are. the way you are selling this monstrous program, that wasn t the problem. it was the program itself. now we re smart enough to know this and clearly see that. it s not that we can t handle the fuel. you never told us the truth. you broke a cardinal rule you lied. then you covered up the lie. then you compounded the covering up of the lie. then you have the nerve to blame us because we re having trouble keeping up with all of the lies. your lies. and now you re shocked. maybe i can offer my rules for dealing with anyone in government and it lies. your lies. just so you understand where the