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Author "wrecking crew, how conservatives rule". >> hi, keith. >> i need a perspective from where you are now. does it look in washington within even the republican caucus that the first act of a republican house was a lasty do-over of a screw-up or is it an extra beltway thing? >> i dont know what the reaction is in d.c. i dont hang around those people most of the time. no, really. i have spent time studying the tea party movement over the last couple of months and they regard this oath -- its n...

Telling us. >> "the washington post" reported monday, "in late may, the administration accepted mexicos offer of two skirmishes and 13,779 feet of boom. a dutch offer of three set of koseq sweeping arms which attach to the sides of ships and gather oil and eight skimming systems offer by norway." thomas frank, columnist at "the wall street journal" and author of "the wrecking crew: how conservatives rule" joins us now. how are you? >> good. >> help us, norway, youre our only hope. >> yeah, tur...

>> "the washington post" reported monday, "in late may, the administration accepted mexicos offer of two skimmers and 13,779 feet of boom. a dutch offer of three set of koseq sweeping arms which attach to the sides of ships and gather oil and eight skimming systems offered by norway." thomas frank, columnist at "the wall street journal" and author of "the wrecking crew: how conservatives rule" joins us now. good evening to you, sir. >> and how are you today? >> help us, norway, youre our only ...

Phone call back. that is what the norwegians are telling us and the dutch are telling us. >> "the washington post" reported monday, "in late may, the administration accepted mexicos offer of two skimmers and 13,779 feet of boom. a dutch offer of three set of koseq sweeping arms which attach to the sides of ships and gather oil and eight skimming systems offer by norway." thomas frank, columnist at "the wall street journal" and author of "the wrecking crew: how conservatives rule" joins us now....

There. this isnt one of them. >> last point. does the budget cutting have any legs? the $100 billion now topping at $30 billion. will that be news next week? >> people play so many games with the budget business. i dont think they are actually going to try to stop raising the debt ceiling. that would be catastrophic. but on the other hand, to bring on the catastrophe would make a lot of glenn becks prophesies come true and secondly raise the price of gold. wouldnt it? >> there you go. >> thats w...

Author of the book "the wrecking crew: how conservatives rule. ". how are you? >> im good. >> what do you think of that thesis about the ark of the -- >> i disagree with all that. i remember exactly where i was when i was living in chicago at the time when they came in 94 and 95 and all the stuff about the idealistic freshmen that was the mime in the media. i dont know if you know about this, but they had great idealists. and it is not like it took a really long time for them to come in and sell...