when television would supplant the role of the party and i wonder if that day is today. no i mean end of the day they re still using polls. they re not choosing these people. in the same way that cnn and every other network is going to use some mechanism of polling to say who are the people that meet the criteria to get in this debate? fox is doing the same thing. so they re not choosing anybody. one other observeationobservation, jamny combs, national correspondent for the new york times, wrote a paper for the kennedy school at harvard university. it s a detailed report. it s really an academic paper. i want to show sean spicer one statement from it and ask you to react. she wrote, conservative media have helped push the party so far to the anti-government, anti-compromise, ideological right, attacks republican leaders for taking the smallest step toward the moderate middle. do you worry that so much emphasis on fox s role in this first debate has that intended as that uninten
anti-politics in a certain kind of way from the tea party, anti-government, anti-compromise, when they come in to your group, it is impossible to lead. by the way, imt not someone who at any point criticized john boehner s leadership skills. i believe all those criticisms were misplaced. he had a problem with who got elected under his party banner. it s not that previous speakers were better leaders than he was. previous speakers didn t have as many crazy people in the room with him. that s a good point. let s see how much the republicans appreciate his sage counsel if he says guys, we have to hike rates. i m waiting for that. speaking of that, lawrence, i know you were there in washington when the clinton rates that we re all talking about now went into effect back in 1993. you probably remember the republicans saying there would be a second recession and millions of jobs lost and none of of that happened in the 1990s. now we re back at the point where democrats for a decade have
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