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A plan to replace obamacare is more about politics than policy. heres what he told "des moines register." he said, you know, i could maybe give you ten reasons why this bill shouldnt be considered, but republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the campaign. thats pretty much as much of a reason as the substance of the bill. your reaction. >> michael kinsly famously says a gaffe in washington is when someone tells the truth without meanin...

Their lives but revolt at the prospect of any slight cuts to its largest programs, medicare, social security, or the removal of tax benefits or health care and home mortgages. this condition has been building for years. in a 1995 book, michael kinsly explained what he saw as the roots of the then populist anger at washington that newt gingrich had ex employed wiploited with with america. he wrote american voters make flagrantly income patable demands, then explode in self-righteous outrage when ...

Committee time where they should be talking about what happened in benghazi. and i dont think they really got to that much today. >> it was interesting, jeffrey toobin, youre a former prosecutor. gowdy, the chairman. hes a former prosecutor down in south carolina. he says hes not a prosecutor right now. hes very defensive on this issue. he says hes an investigator. he only wants to come up with the truth. if you listen closely, the way he was making his case, he sounded like a prosecutor. >> sur...

Remember, like, when a cia agent is killed, his name isnt released generally. there might be a star that recognized that somewhere. so i think greenwald was right and snowden were right to bring some of these bulk data collection stories to public attention. and journalists have been doing this for a long time. where greenwald is way out of line is when he -- he didnt acknowledge this last night, you know, he said when hes had some reversals, well, maybe ill release more of these secret document...

"time magazine" had chosen einstein the great scientist. charles disagreed. he picked churchill the indispensable statesman who led the fight against hitler and sounded the alarm on communism. politics trumping science. that might explain why krauthammer traded a big time medical career to a one-way ticket to washington. why once here his eyes locked on to a help wanted add in the political opinion magazine the new republican. >> i showed it to my wife. she said why dont you apply? how can i app...

Manager was fired from his ju l journalism job. the tea party is rather split on mcconnell. the tea party network has endorsed mcconnell and rand pall who is a tea party favorite he has endorsed mitch mcconnell but seeing a tea party challenger jumping in. >> mcconnells manager has led to these from the new republican. even mcconnells campaign manager, cant stand him. from "the new york times" top mcconnell aide holding my nose to help rand paul. the democrat running in the race, of course, is k...

Campaignes with thousands of donors would worry about whether any of them were funneling money to mistresses 0r hair cuts. the edwards came would be officially against the law. but at the same time, much larger sums of money from the same donors to candidates super pacs be still allowed. what you see on camera now and you know who this from the papers everyday, is still totally legal. and think about it, every complaint about the risk of the edwards payments, from owing certain donors to total l...

Robinson and michael kinsly and others wrote about because he is overweight means he is undisciplined. it is just one of those last remaining vestiges of prig disand stupidity. in our -- prejudices and stupidity in our society. >> dana: what do you think? >> greg: absolutely right. the worst thing that happened to the presidency when they started joggin jogging in the dn shorts. that is an affront to society. i want my president rotund in a three-piece suit with a watch, possibly a cane and perh...

And in to today. it comes on the day with a federal reserve chairman ben bernanke was up on capitol hill and said this. the recovery is close to faltering. we need to make sure that the recovery continues and doesnt drop back and unemployment rate continues to fall downward. not great words for the economy, though the markets seemed unphased today. what about the strategy by the president? and what he meant by all of that? mara? >> he made what michael kinsly used to say is definition of a gaffe...

This idea that theres a coming of the conservative republican party. >> and if you look at the results of this, you wonder who can win of the field thats out there, and then you also wonder about chris christie who frank rooney wrote about in the "new york times." because remember friday, eugenes piece in the "washington post." everybody -- >> started weighing in. >> they were weighing in. they put his picture up a week ago. >> it was a full-blown battle. >> yeah. so frank rooney who has had his...