For just about everyone else. Which is why the dow tumbled 105 points today. S p lost 0. 61 and the nasdaq climbed up. First a word about leadership. I learned about this from the Television Show that got me interested in the wall street to begin with walk street. There was a funfilled review of the week and the panelists revered, and theyd opine about leadership groups. Its where i first heard cyclicals although lou would say, that sounds like a washing machine, speak english and marty would say that companies with earnings improve when the economy gets better and deteriorate when it gets worse. I try to model myself on lou. At the same time i didnt want the show to be dumbed down too much so i would like to listen to the concepts like the generals that they talked about all the time. The generals. The stocks that led the market forward and tried to judge whether the leadership was meaningful longer term. Some groups make better generals than others if you want to deviate from the mil
Some of the contractors who built it are going to have some explaining to do. Were going to bring that to you live in just a few minutes. First we explain just how we got here. Lawmakers will be ready to pounce today at the first of three hearings to probe the glitches on the federal Website Health care. Gov. House republicans long opposed to the penaltys Affordable Care act are expected to grill the definiteliors of the system. The rollout is nothing short of a debacle. On wednesday, health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with c. E. O. S of Insurance Companies at the white house. The initial high jam of users clogged the system, which failed early testing. The Vice President of the company that built the website will say today the Obama Administration acknowledged the website was not tested enough before going live. We did not expect or anticipate the scale of the problems that has occurred. Thats on us. Some democrats claim the investigation is political and the go
To how one gets to a closing guantanamo . I dont think it is that complicated once we decide the we are going to do. The argument been would be we will never really she because there is a risk if we release you. Thats not good criminal Justice Policy and i dont think its good counterterrorism policy. Everybody else down there that we determined for whatever reason we cannot release or weve tried and convicted them we will housing in the United States. There are many, many Public Policy arguments over the course of my great that a frustrated me. Its amazing how people lead to incorrect conclusions and then the same irreversible. But the notion that we cannot hold dangers people safely in the United States to me is patently absurd. And yet, it drives the debate. The reason that we have not close guantanamo, keep in mind, it wasnt some big liberal goal, gates, john mccain, george w. Bush said we should close guantanamo. Why havent we . Well, ill skip the political argument for the moment
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
With that, i yield to the chairman emeritus of the full committee. Thank you. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to make the Affordable Care act work. I remind my colleagues the last perfect law came off of the top of mount sinai with moses, written on a stone tablet. Nothing so good has happened since. I urge us to use our best efforts to see that this law goes into effect and works and that we carry out our responsibility to the American People. To see to it that we do everything we can to defend the laws of the u. S. I have heard some unfortunate things on the other side. They said we have to do everything in our power to prevent obamacare. Obamacare, get rid of it. Our friends on the other side have forgotten that. I hope they will continue to forget it. We have a chance to see to it that the American People get health care as a matter of right, not financial privilege. I am very frustrated, at least as frustrated as anyone else in this room, about the problems facing healthcar