she comes w. she has a negative with the country. i think this would be a challenge for any democratic leader. you have a president that loves to essentially do the rhetorical arts the leader of the democratic party is not comfortable with that on a good day. she d rather be behind the scenes. mike and i were talking about this earlier in the day. she s in a hard spot. one of the interesting things about the mid-term, we saw the energy of the organizers giving a new direction to how the democratic party will mobilize his constituencys. the dnc is trying to keep up. if she comes in, the first thing she says is bipartisanship, infrastructure bill, trying to reach across the aisle. that energy down there, that wasn t you should have seen my twitter feed. meanwhile the president wants to make her a wedge. on the one hand, i don t want to denigrate nancy pelosi for trying to be an adult. we don t have enough adults. on the other hand, i think we all recognize that there has
reserved the option to use military force and that had the senate passed authorization, i think they would have ignored it in the house and considered that to be sufficient support of moving forward. but, steve, i have a suspicion that this scenario was worked out between president obama and president putin when they were together in st. petersburg. they re never going to tell us that. they don t want either of her to constituencys to know that. but i the think there is more behind the scones that we may never know but would be very impressed to find out about because it seems as though things fell no place much more naturally than they normally would have and i don t think this was an offhand remark by secretary kerry that got this going. i really think it was our president and president putin figuring out, this is the right path to dpochl i think president putin also understands that some of these folks in syria could
already falling out of line with other republicans by refusing to support their earmark ban. earlier this week the house and senate voting to voluntarily ban expensive pet projects. democrats even rogue republicans couldn t let go of the pork. despite america s spending problems you are okay with this? ofúñrit:u)se. every year we send 435 representatives to washington to represent their constituencys. what is an earmark? to some what is an earmark to others a worthy project. was the golden gate bridge an earmark? national airport an earmark? earmark is using federal funds for local projects. all of us have been thrown under the congressional pork wagon too long. these pork projects act like gateway drugs to more government spending and bigger governing. they need to congress micromanaging the economy. and they ve got to stop,
agreements, had to do with dealing with constituencys. had to deal with dealing with problems in in particular states problems that other parts of the country do not have. sean: done you have a problem with the process when the person people aren t given the opportunity to read the bill? only after the bill passed the infamous comment now nancy pelosi, we gotta pass the bill to find out what s in the bill. something is so dramatic and i am a student of history and there were people after the civil rights act and the voting rights act, they ran on their votes. they didn t run for cover during the next election cycle on those votes. those votes were even more controversial in many respects than this one was. those votes divided the country. you talk about negotiations, lyndon johnson was the master. if you read master of the senate you can appreciate the magnitude of the mastery of negotiation.
agreements, had to do with dealing with constituencys. had to deal with dealing with problems in in particular states problems that other parts of the country do not have. sean: done you have a problem with the process when the person people aren t given the opportunity to read the bill? only after the bill passed the infamous comment now nancy pelosi, we gotta pass the bill to find out what s in the bill. something is so dramatic and i am a student of history and there were people after the civil rights act and the voting rights act, they ran on their votes. they didn t run for cover during the next election cycle on those votes. those votes were even more controversial in many respects than this one was. those votes divided the country. you talk about negotiations, lyndon johnson was the master. if you read master of the senate you can appreciate the magnitude of the mastery of negotiation.