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Promise a lot less true. >> it made grandfathering go from this to this. >> exactly. to the extent mistakes were made there was a big mistake made in not communicating to the american people that would have an impact. in june, i think it was of 2010. the law was passed in march. in your experience, whose responsibility would it have been to walk into the white house and say, you know, bill, mr. president, you need to know we just did this. its basically going to gut the promise you have been mak...

Confidence in the presidents competence to handle major policy issues. thats the real risk. its bigger than one election. its americans losing faith in the ability of the bureaucracy, the public administrators to handle programs that are this big. once americans lose faith its harder -- >> i said liberalism in general is on trial here. because -- >> we pretend we have never seen it before. this happens in virtually every presidency. the next thing that will happen, well have something else to ta...

Americans are quickly losing confidence in the presidents competence to handle major policy issues. thats the real risk. its bigger than one election. its americans losing faith in the ability of the bureaucracy, the public administrators to handle programs that are this big. once americans lose faith its harder -- >> i said liberalism in general is on trial here. because -- >> we pretend we have never seen it before. this happens in virtually every presidency. the next thing that will happen, w...

Their goals are to thwart the right wing agenda in colorado and to offer a progressive counterpoint when it comes to all media relations on policy issues. so thats their goal. if that was your daughter, wouldnt you be so proud? she goes to college, graduates after four years and her sfifir job is to be the obama care model in colorado. >> i think its a subversive thing designed to get on the oreilly factor. as you said, they it does open f should americans be paying for other peoples birth contr...

Risk, his legacy, do you think he should have known these things? is it an excues to say i didnt know or is that not acceptable frankly? >> ill tell you. i met with the president just about every day for two years. the first two years of his administration. and i found him to be remarkably attentive and aggressive. >> on health care or -- >> with respect to what was going on on all policy issues that he faced. certainly in the interactions that i had with him he might have made judgements that w...

The first two years of his administration. i found him to be remarkably attentive and aggressive. >> this was on health care? >> with respect to what was going on all the policy issues that he faced. certainly, in the interactions that i had with him he might have made judgments that people would agree with. he might have made judgments that the people would disagree with. but he was someone who had a clear recognition of what his responsibility was as president. i saw the very thick book he wou...

Of a once a week column for a penny saver newspaper, in which you are the most junior member, or one of the most junior members, that is a hard admission to kick off your did for -- if you cant handle being a senator without screwing up like this, why should you get the really big job? and so the day goes to governor chris christie of new jersey, re-elected by a state that clearly does not agree with him on some major policy issues. rival for the 2016 job that he wants way more than the job he j...

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Affection. >> you had a vote reagan and mondale. >> that was the only election i left that line blank. if i had been the swing vote i would have voted for reagan. >> it was a turning point in krauthammers transition from the political left to the political right. >> a few months after i wrote something called "the reagan doctrine." >> it was a time magazine column. for a while he praised him on a number of policy issues, he was crediting him with a break through insight that changed the calculus...

Costco. if it looks like the demand isnt going to be there, those are jobs not being created. >> more people who will be dependent on a government not working. >> the business community has been sounding the alarm on not just the shutdown, but the debt ceiling, and i think it will be really interesting to see how that translates moving ahead, whether big gop donors and the business community are still going to defend these congressmen, these candidates, who have put us in this position. we hear ...