completely it has legs. benghazi is lit gaited over and over. that s a polarized if you wear a red shirt or blue shirt, your mind is not going to get changed. yeah. the irs is different. the irs is. but can i disagree? this affects can i really quickly, we need to get to sam stein, he s been here six 6:00 a.m., his mother hasn t heard him say a complete sentence. sam, we got him out of prep school to come here today and he s wearing his best tie. really quickly, sam, let me let me say personally how this impacts the debate. yeah. i have been saying for months now, and i everybody knows this, that i believe we need background checks. yeah. i believe we need after newtown, after all chicago, after we need background checks. my argument has been, don t worry, background checks aren t going to lead to a national registry. they ll never the government s never going to
and vote present like one member of the senate did. he participated in the filibuster. it s ugly and bad for his long-term image. the grand irony of this entire thing is, running the pentagon is a hard job. people failed at it before. the largest bureaucracy we have in the government, one of the largest workforces in the world. i mean, it s a hugely complicated thing to do administratively, logistically, politically. strong centers of power in that building, right? i have no idea whether chuck hagel is up to it, nor does anyone. none of that has been lit gaited at all. he talked to al jazeera once, gave speeches to. the actual job the guy is going to do, i don t know if i have a dog in the fight. do i care if chuck hagel is running the pentagon? as far as i can tell, no one has done much in congress to sort of sort that out. and the one thing that job, is a policymaker. that is not the person who decides whether we go to war but takes the orders from the white house about how to im
health care. but the reality is, this is not going to be easy to do because it is entrenched, part of the government process already begun before you get to next year. pieces that are already in place. to undo that will be sticky. let s go deeper on the politics. findings from a new kaiser family poll on health care. 56% y opponents of the law should stop trying to block it, not every republican agrees, steven law ceo of the super pac of american crossroads wrote this, quote, while we would have preferred to see obamacare struck down this will drive republican voter intensity skyhigh. the last time obama care was lit gaited in a general election republicans picked up a historic number of seats in thehouse and made big gains in the u.s. senate. david frum disagrees, the idea of prepeeling obama care is a fantasy. even if republicans win the white house and senate this year he questioned if they would have