supreme court should not be legislating from the bench, which most conservatives do, the type of ruling is really important because the supreme court has not been a ruling a large precedent that would change existing laws. they prefer to roll on a narrow scope, as opposed to making a big sweeping change in this particular court. i think people watching today, again i think buck s analysis is right from a legal perspective but i do think people watching today should be encouraged that religious liberty is being protected, maybe it needs to go further as buck pointed out but whenever many people of religious faith feel like they are being attacked from all sorts of institutions is important that our supreme court today stood up for religious freedom and stood up for religious liberty and that that hasn t been canceled.
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response in analyzing it than i ll ever be. from the president on down, there does seem to be an aversion to finger pointing even when a knee jerk reaction might be mistaken or you might have people second guessing, oh, the storm was going to be on the east coast, and now it s on the west coast, who botched that? there s none of that. there s unpredictable nature of natural disasters and otherwise. they will be that later. whether you re a republican or democrat, conservative or liberal, is a big sweeping change. i think that sweeping change is, people have learned from katrina, you do all of the finger pointing when the storm s happening, that takes away from the response. so if you cut that kind of stuff out and actually do your job, and actually be a mayor, actually be a governor, and do what you re supposed to do, that enables the federal government
government, constitutional principles and free market for enterprise solutions. i was able to articulate that well and very tight, con can seis message. we stayed on track throughout the campaign. uma: you have been quoted as saying we re going to hold future speaker of the house john boehner feet to the fire, not willing to sacrifice principle for bipartisan. what impact could it have on the g.o.p. agenda to get the legislation passed? i think we will be able to get the legislation passed. all we have to do is go back to 1994, when we had the big sweeping change, where the g.o.p. came in and took the house and the senate. the next thing you know, you saw bill clinton move to the center. he worked with newt gingrich. by way of the tax cuts and also cutting back on government spending and government growth, we have record surpluses. all of the people who say it can t be done, we ve already seen the precedent established. that is what i m talking about when you stand by the sound eco
european supreme allied commander before taking the nsa job. and we ll see how this develops, as far as national security policy. since he was deputy, i don t think you will see a big sweeping change. it is just interesting the timing of this announcement, on this day, friday, before, you know, 25 days to the midterms, bret, thanks, and we re glad to get your inputs on this and there will be more on special report tonight, thanks. thanks, martha, let s bring in retired general scales, on the phone, what is your react to the news, jim jones stepping down. caller: i think the reaction is similar to most of those in uniform who have been in business a while that jim jones as going to leave and i ll echo what bret said, most surprising is the timing of it, the fact that he is doing it 25 days before an election but, everyone who i have spoken to knows that he was very very, unhappy in this job, and he is when he served in uniform, he was the