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Alarms. among liberal democrats, among the left, corey booker s a new jersey democrat, close connections to wall street. that clip is case in point. he s very simple threat to wall street. after on the left, there s a lot of people are tired with obama s close ties to wall street, with geithner, with the people in his administration who they feel kept the president from taking more aggressive approach to the banks, to financial reform. while democrats are vying to see a democrat win the seat and fine with booker, i m not sure there s enthusiasm for him on the left because i think a lot of folks see him as another wall street democrat and they re tired of wall street democrats. if corey booker does go on to be a senator, he will be the only currently elected african-american in the u.s. senate, first ever from new jersey. corey booker somebody people talk about as having a national ....
Gregg: pat? it is all right for my children to believe in 9 tooth fairy, he met 3 1/2 times more than hillary clinton with president obama and 3 1/2 types more than geithner and 2 1/2 times more than john mitchell and holder. what was he doing in who did he see? the chief staff, who was he meeting with? you have to be a fool to believe a head of an agency that is separate is meeting in the white house and not doing politics. gregg: most machines think it is not just the i.r.s. that is coming after them, they think other government agencies targeting conservative groups. look at that. given what we have learned how expansive the i.r.s. investigations or targeting has been, the men membership ....
Thinking this is somehow more important than the permits themselves. i think politics are being played here. when we talk about efficiency, this is republicans gearing up to make partisan points and keep the court in their direction. there is a problem which is that the second term around we have a lot of appointments that frankly are not seen to be superstars. this is the b team. we had hillary clinton. we had geithner. we had extraordinary folks around obama who weren t just moderate but were supremely competent. you saw what happened to susan rice this time around when she was almost floated and pulled back. you look at treasury and commerce and you look at state, these are big high profile appointments. people don t think they are supremely competent. so looking at administration confirmations in general, you think there s something going on with a second term malaise a little bit. not with judicial. when we pull the camera back ....
there might be many reasons you might be at the white house. what. what would be some of the reasons? the easter egg roll with my kids. dana: that never gets old. easter egg roll. so he went to the white house four times as much as geithner. one of explanations, they were working on obamacare and irs has a rule that he was there to meet with nancy to talk about the rollout. however,, he is the principal of the irs. kathleen sebelius is the principal of hhs. bob: so if you are thinking about talking about the rollout of obamacare she might be at that session. i don t you know, i really don t have anything to say here on the subject. i never met the irs and free tax advice. dana: i love how some people on the left, he was ....
Let me tell you another thing that bothers me. the chief of staff at the treasury department, named mark patterson, he worked for geithner and now for lew. apparently they ve known for months that this was coming. it is inconscionable that they allowed the president of the united states to go out there and fake outrage months later and then to say that he heard about it through press reports. this is a crisis in confidence in government and that is the problem. that s where you get that link. so today they announce that they re going to have a replacement for the irs commissioner. because they knew that steve miller had been planning to leave all along at the beginning of next month you would think that they had a replacement in mind, right, because that s what you ve got to do with government. but today they announced dan warfol could be a great guy. is he qualified? i don t know. he is an inside the white house kind of guy. if this is a kirn about ....