new hampshire. but you notice that florida and texas and arizona don t have this problem. so it s not so much the weather. there is a political factor here, too. yeah, that is a political choice. you see that same principle at play, writ small, we have the city of los angeles, san francisco, seattle, that have doubled the number of homeless folks in the last few years. and smaller cities, the outlying areas, that have a compassionate enforcement approach, they are enforcing the law, making homelessness a top policy priority. they have actually managed to reduce it, while the bigger cities that have the most progressive, the most permissive policies, don t seem to be able to get a handle on it, and the real lesson from the homelessness crisis is the policy matters. if you have a policy of unlimited permissiveness, ruinous compassion, you are only going to compound the problem, no matter how much money you spend. mark: it s kind of the
texas and arizona don t have this problem. so it s not so much the weather. there is a political factor here, too. yeah, that is a political choice.er you can see that same principle at play, writ small, we have the cities like los angeles, san francisco, seattle, that have doubled the number of homeless folks in the last few years. and smaller cities, the outlying areas, that have a compassionate enforcement approach, they are enforcing the law, making homelessness a top policy priority. they have actually managed to reduce it, while the bigger cities that have the most progressive, the most permissive policies, don t seem to be able to get a handle on it, and the real lesson from the homelessness crisis is that policy matters. if you have a policy of unlimited permissiveness, kind of ruinous compassion, you are only going to compound the problem, no matter how much money you spend. mark: it s kind of the opposite of what they used to call the broken windows theory,
tweet, this happened before, for example, i talked to one democrat rank and file senator who said something that really infuriated the leadership it got to them in a nano second, brought into them in a leadership meeting and it changed the internal dynamics. i use it not just to give information out, i also use it to get information. so i ll put up sort of a provocative question on facebook. and people will respond to that. and give me all kinds of ideas. and sort of threads and things to think about that i never even thought about before. so i sort of use it to gather information, sort of the voice of the people, writ small. especially breaking news stories like the gulf story. you tweet it, you read other peerjs you follow it. it s a great way to do it. let s move on to those kagan hearings where a lot of people were tweeting. 18-plus hours in the chair. dana, you were there for most of it, if not all of it. this is elaiena kagan and linds graham talking about an evolving issue i