you should probably have this vote on bif by itself. i ve gotten confirmation that this whole thing did happen from a senior democratic aide on the hill. what was up with what congresswoman jayapal was doing if you have any insight into that? yeah. i mean, colleagues broke this conversation, this story. it seems like, you know, she was being clear about where her caucus stands, right? in trying to get the president to say to agree with them. and at this point we ve seen mostly that this white house has kind of been on the side of progressives when it comes to the process aspect of things, right? a lot of things got pulled out of that bill that progressives really wanted. obviously a lot of health care issues got pulled out, paid family leave pulled out and so what jayapal is trying to do is continuing to use the power that she has, use her caucus and say, no, this is what we want, because there s been a question
little bit of that kind of process aspect. well i think in 2009 when you asked yourself why didn t he do those things? one of those things he had a democratic congress. if you remember when he reached out for republicans, bonnie frank and reid and pelosi criticized him for reaching out to republicans. he had a democratic congressional agenda he had to operate under during that period, and it s ironic he has flipped the narrative. he has a republican house and senate and he s doing what they said they couldn t accomplish back then. he has flipped the narrative. i think he will be remembered as a process oriented president who is prudent very much like eisenhower. very cautious and i would say, dare i say, conservative he thinks things out and doesn t act on his passions. it s worth pointing out as we were thinking about the 100 days that fdr and reagan are kind of these presidents that stand in the early presidencies but i wonder if president obama is making something new with this