themselves on the back so hard that it has to be hurting them. first of all, all that happened here are the bureaucracy accurates and white house did their job. does a they just do not their job done. it s just the first step that will will be complicated process. next year we re looking at much meyer premiums. we ll look at a lot less choice. how do member people accept that, should we adjust the law? are the democrats talking about figuring the law or is it lip service? if they were willing to fix it, will the republicans be willing to make this is durable law that is actually bipartisan and actually accepted by the american people. i was talking to a friend of mine last night who got his 2013 income taxes done and took a look at the refund. he asked me if i had done it yet, which i haven t.
department. he refused to claim a portion and there are editorials and i want to share this that takes on the republicans and critics of mike morrell. here is at the article in the washington post. perhaps the chief remaining mystery about benghazi is why republicans are still harping 19 months after the attack and so willing to attack career diplomats, military officers and intelligence officers in their gejihadadministration. bureauic administration, sure that might have happened with the talking points but it s not a conspiracy, to that you say what? americans still deserve to know what happened at benghazi and why. there s no question and there s a lot of information still being withheld. we have never held hilary held accountable here. the white house has never been held accountable. where was the president the night benghazi happened? what was hilary doing that night
the problems on republicans. i mean, he owns this thing now? he has to take responsibility for all of it. well, we own it. this is something that our government now does own and it is the law of this country. so we should work together to make it better. he claims his party claims they want to fix it. if they really wanted to picture it, they would know to work with the republican party you wouldn t stand there in the rose garden and mock them. that was the hope yesterday. literally in the newspapers, the president mocks the republican party. that s not the way a leader who wants to work across party lines operates. that s the way you operate when all you care about is winning the new cycle and lengths. if you want to make this bill better and durable and you want to make it that will last beyond your presidency and the next election, find away to coon a few republicans and bring in a few republicans, due modest changes so it can t be seen as a democratic law, which it is now.
inequality. we re going to hear a lot of war on women talk. on the theory that they can turn out his base in a midterm election. of there s very little evidence that he can do that, but they don t have a lot of other tools in their tool box right now. and so that s what they re going to try to do, demonize republicans not to win over independents, certainly not to win over republican, but to get people like the folks in that audience to show up at the polls who historically don t show up for midterm elections. jon: so if that is the case, a.b., is the ryan budget in a sense playing into the president s hands in that it gives democrats and the president something to shoot at, a very big target? oh, yes. you re not going to hear republicans talking about it. but the ryan budget is an old reliable. the democratic party has raised untold sums of money off the ryan budget these past three, four years. so that s what they re going to keep talking about. as jonah said, kind of running, ther
his party focused on how republicans want to take everything away from you and hoping it s going to turn them out in the polls. i think it s an enormous risk, because i don t think it s going to galvanize them in light of everything else. jon: it seem, jonah, if you truly want to negotiate a deal with your political opposite, that calling them names is not necessarily the way to bring them to the table. that s exactly right. but there is almost no evidence that barack obama has ever really been very interested in striking a deal that doesn t ask republicans to basically surrender their principles in favor of barack obama s. and i think a.b. is entirely right. i mean, i think what we re going to see for the next year or the next six months is the president pursue a strategy that he s pursued before, that worked for him in 2012, that hasn t worked for him in 2010 when campaigning for any other candidates of these straight up, popular issue, minimum wage, income