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P t made all of us have to relocate and switch our plans around and just earlier a couple hours earlier, an alert by blackberry saying there was a tornado warning and i should take cover. here i am with a job to do. i take cover everyday with you folks. i can still -- >> nothing new. >> good one. seriously, theres an optics problem this week, right? we have the rnc and some nice things going on there. revelly, and people struggling with theler cane that may change new orleans -- >> did you just ...

Address. >> i think it with be a serious optics problem. the observer, you said before, thought it would be disasterous. that may be overstating it. of the three branches of government, all are supposed to be there, executive, legislative and judicial. of the three, the judicial is supposed to be the least partisan. its supposed to be, in some ways, a nonpartisan event. having only democratic-appointed justices show up would be, i think, a really bad precedent for future state of the unions. the...

Fights like this is that presidents can afford to kick a little sand in the face of their base. they can apoured to disappoint their own party when they need to because, after all, where is the presidents own party going to go? theyre not going abandon the president. by making this deal with republicans, the president made most republicans very happy. as you can see from the happy looking republicans. good times. the president made most democrats, other than the guy who delivered thai food to th...

For the obama administration. common wisdom about political fights like this is that presidents can afford to kick a little sand in the face of their base. they can apoured to disappoint their own party when they need to because, after all, where is the presidents own party going to go? theyre not going abandon the president. by making this deal with republicans, the president made most republicans very happy. as you can see from the happy looking republicans. good times. the president made most...