holder seemed more disturbed by commissioner kelly s attempts to prevent terrorism than he was to take responsibility for a program run by his department called fast and furious that put illegal guns in the hands of mexican drug lords and resulted in the murder of an american border agent. and finally, there s the really stupid vote of the senate this week to kill a bill by senator tom coburn which would have implemented a government accounting office recommendation that would have eliminated $10 billion of duplicative government programs. sounds real simple. a government agency finds $10 billion of pure waste of your money, and recommends we turn off the leaky faucet. the senate s response? defeat the bill and turn the spigots on full, and that is stupid. comedian ron white has it right when he says this. you can t fix stupid.
holder seemed more disturbed by commissioner kelly s attempts to prevent terrorism than he was to take responsibility for a program run by his department called fast and furious that put illegal guns in the hands of mexican drug lords and resulted in the murder of an american border agent. and finally, there s the really stupid vote of the senate this week to kill a bill by senator tom coburn which would have implemented a government accounting office recommendation that would have eliminated $10 billion of duplicative government programs. sounds real simple. a government agency finds $10 billion of pure waste of your money, and recommends we turn off the leaky faucet. the senate s response? defeat the bill and turn the spigots on full, and that is stupid. comedian ron white has it right when he says this. you can t fix stupid.
out. my apologies sir. i am usually much better behaved than that. and editor and publisher of the nation and the editor of the change i believe in. steve is back. political writer for salon.com. our starting point this morning is the national polls and the polls show rick santorum is surging. up by double dinlg jimts. sometimes we say surge and it s not really a surge but i think this time it s fair to say surge. nine months before the election democrats are going on the attack. there are plans to hit both now rick santorum and mitt romney and there s a new e-mail on the democratic national committee yesterday that said this about santorum. quote, rick santorum has embraced the same philosophy that created the economic crisis. his tax plan would primarily benefit the very wealthy while adding $900 billion to the national deficit. it would be a disaster for middle class families. let s get right to jennifer, democratic strategist, former white house deputy communicat
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bioshield, it s a program run by the department of health and human services. is this a program that s doing a great deal to help so far? this is a program in which almost everybody who works there now and almost everybody who s worked in the project bioshield effort over the last ten years feels that it s failing in at least some way. now, they don t agree on how it s failing or how it should be organized, and three a tremendous absence of coherent policy on how to proceed, but almost no one, including the people who are running the agencies that use project bioshield funds today believes it s working as it can be. if you were a betting man, wyl, where would you say we are ten years from now in terms of our preparation? i would say that there is already taking place a fourth major reorganization of biodefense, and if we look at the last ten years and we see the other three major reorganizations, i would say that we re going to have to continually rethink this and figure out how