reviews. the military trying to box in the president. rahm emanuel is saying it s b.s. that between the chairman and petraeus, everybody s come out and publicly endorsed the notion of more troops. the president hasn t even had a chance. this really gets to the rift between the white house and the military, which has a lot of implications as the war goes forward. it does, and you know, it s been clear for some time, andrea, as you know, you covered this closely, that this was, not to take anything away from bob s book, he puts an incredible amount of meat on the skeleton we knew but we ve known for awhile about the fight. the white house in many respects thinks this is a good portrait, him standing up to the military and being strong and allowing a lot of internal debate in contrast to what a lot of democrats in the white house see as having been a much too rubber stamp process in terms of foreign policy in the bush administration, obama gets criticized for allowing this amount of
they just announced another massive spending infrastructure spending program, 50 billion dollars. he s flatly contradicting the president. let me say, i think the white house is not in touch with reality on this question if they think they are going to get congressional democrats to get behind a tax increase this year by the way, next year, no chance. greta: i think there are two issues, maybe three. substantive issue about whether the bush tax cut should be extended or not. the second thing is you ve got a high ranking member of the economic team, the omb director orszag not out of the white house five weeks there s no reason for him to pen this unless it is poking a tick in the eye of the president. and christina romer leaving the economic team. to me it suggests there s dissention at the top. you stay when it is fun, having success if it stars to look bad everyone jumps ship. the president was elected in part, heavily, i think on anxieties about the economy.
at 9.5, we ate teen months in and there is no job creation what will it take to get the white house at what point does the white house think maybe this isn t working? let me say this i agree with the congressman on one point. one failing of this administration is if you look at the top level people from tim geithner to the department of commerce secrcretary, department of labor secretary and so on, none of them have any private sector experience running a business that s a big problem. greta: west complained about that before and i wouldn t mind if the numbers were going in the right direction. they are failing terrible. i m suspicious why christina romer has jumped ship. she said she wants to go back with her family. i think people are unhappy and there s dissention when you are failing. i think the writing is on the wall. i think is one of the biggest failings of washington. so few making these decisions have worked for business true
at 9.5, we ate teen months in and there is no job creation what will it take to get the white house at what point does the white house think maybe this isn t working? let me say this i agree with the congressman on one point. one failing of this administration is if you look at the top level people from tim geithner to the department of commerce secretary, department of labor secretary and so on, none of them have any private sector experience running a business that s a big problem. greta: west complained about that before and i wouldn t mind if the numbers were going in the right direction. they are failing terrible. i m suspicious why christina romer has jumped ship. she said she wants to go back with her family. i think people are unhappy and there s dissention when you are failing. i think the writing is on the wall. i think is one of the biggest failings of washington. so few making these decisions have worked for business true
have some real effects in these coming weeks and months is along democrats, because there is a real divide, particularly among progressives and liberals who aren t pleased at all with the u.s. commitment in afghanistan, very concerned that we are in a quagmire there. very concerned about the continued funding of those wars. so that s where the president really has to hold the coalition together. i mean, generally speaking, he s had the support of republicans on his afghanistan policy. john heilemann? i would disagree with anything that savannah just said. i think pat s point is important which is there are these divisions on the right in the republican party are pretty fundamental and you see a party, i think, that apart from opposition to obama, if you take that unifying force away, there is a huge amount of dissention. it s a huge impact on who the