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Presidency was diminished in bushs second term. and in 2007, cheney wanted to bomb a suspected syrian nuclear reactor, but secretary of state condoleezza rice disagreed. >> condi recommended taking it to the united nations. i strongly recommended that we ought to take it out. i thought it would sort of, again, reassert the kind of authority and influence we had that we had back in 03 when we took down saddam hussein and eliminated iraq as a potential source of wmd. there are certain bright lines...

Its the responsible thing to do. november 2004, john boehner voted to do it again under president bush to raise the debt ceiling. april 2005 at the start of bushs second term, john boehner votes in favor of raising the debt ceiling. so matter how opposed you might be to borrowing money, however, distasteful it is to you, everybody realizes as long as we are borrowing money, not raising the debt ceiling would be a very irresponsible thing to do. it would be a disaster for the country. everybody r...

Now its time to get to work. >> that was republican house speaker john boehner or as he e prefers to be known as it says in the celtic script, mr. responsible. that was two days after president obama won reelection. the president knows im the most reasonable and responsible guy in washington. you know in some ways john boehner has proven himgs to be reasonable over the years. in june 2002 during george w. bushs first term in office, congressional republicans were faced with the issue of raising ...

Lets raise the debt ceiling. its the responsible thing to do. november 2004, john boehner voted to do it again under president bush to raise the debt ceiling. april 2005 at the start of bushs second term, john boehner votes in favor of raising the debt ceiling. so matter how opposed you might be to borrowing money, however, distasteful it is to you, everybody realizes as long as we are borrowing money, not raising the debt ceiling would be a very irresponsible thing to do. it would be a disaster...

Megyn: was what we saw today a re-election effort? >> absolutely. megyn: or a genuine news conference? >> im really glad to hear sally support every president getting a second term because i cant remember the democrats who objected to bushs second term. its really lets get off to the stupid talking points and the fact that we need jobs and recovery, and this is a big-spending president. megyn: you mentioned the taxes, right? today the president made some news because originally his jobs bill was...

About iraq. he does seem to have separated himself from the second administration, from bushs second term. is he just -- i just have this sense that hes cutting himself a smaller and smaller piece of that corner that he painted himself into quite a while ago. >> yeah. he is. and hes looking in that corner for the encouragement of the neocons, who never counted george w. bush among them. they considered george w. bush their tool. cheney was their leader, in effect, and he is trying to maintain th...

Longer work despite his lip service there about iraq. he does seem to have separated himself from the second administration, from bushs second term. is he just -- i just have this sense that hes cutting himself a smaller and smaller piece of that corner that he painted himself into quite a while ago. >> yes, he is. and hes looking in that corner for the encouragement of the neocons, who never counted george w. bush among them. they considered george w. bush their tool. cheney was their leader, i...

Himself from the second administration, from bushs second term. is he just -- i just have this sense that hes cutting himself a smaller and smaller piece of that corner that he painted himself into quite a while ago. >> yes, he is. and hes looking in that corner for the encouragement of the neocons, who never counted george w. bush among them. they considered george w. bush their tool. cheney was their leader, in effect. and he is trying to maintain the support of that corner of republicanism. a...

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