Hampshire and did a good enough job in New Hampshire to frighten Lyndon Johnson out of running for reelection. Eugene mccarthy in todays world could not have done that because he would have had to raise that 500,000 from 500 people instead of five people on the phone call every thursday afternoon. You are over there at the committee making phone calls. You couldnt do it the way you used to do it. Politics. Ged the burden of fundraising is a direct result of the campaignfinance activity. Pardon me. I didnt hear you. Snowe, do you want to respond to that, to his point . Donors . G fewer illuminating limits. It is the amount of limits. The debt was growing up financially before mccainfeingold. People found a loophole in the existing Campaign Laws at the time. I think what bob is referring to is not allowing Political Parties to accept soft money. There was a ban on soft money. It leveraged these other groups. I think the sphere of influence went to these outside organizations as opposed t
She was a little shocked. I am often asked, what is the greatest obstacle . Is a fear of not asking for help when you dont know something. I know ive seen it in my 20plus years as a judge in my different courts. You ask them a question, they dont know the answer. And instead of saying i dont know the answer, they blunderbust and try to make something up. And then theyre skewered by the judges. Ok . Its not much fun. But they seem to fear more the saying i dont know, the embarrassment of that, than the embarrassment of failure in finding the right answer. And i think for me, i understood very, very early on that asking for help is the most important thing to do. Thats what finding mentors is about. For me, who should be your mentor . Someone who can do something you cant do. And someone who can do something you cant do and knows how to do it well so that you can learn from them, so you can take from them their experience, their knowledge, and try to adopt it to fill in a hole that you m
And it calls you back. Find book tv every weekend on cspan two. Authors and journalists met recently in new york to discuss the future of the Republican Party at the manhattan institute. They talked for about an hour and a half. What is the future of conservatism . There are a great number of people qualified to discuss these questions. We have assembled a number of younger leadingedge journalists, scholars and authors who come from a variety of backgrounds to discuss what the way forward could be. They will not always agree, but perhaps through a thoughtful discussion we will illuminate the finer points of the debate. In a way, it reminds me of the early days of city journal, when people like Kevin Mcdonald and george kelling, hardly people who would be characterized as classic conservatives, manage to get together and form a conservative policy that was both coherent and successful. I feel like in many ways we are at the same kind of point in history. In any event, we are glad to bri
That our deficits could be coming down faster. That we would have more customers in our shops, if we get this thing resolved. We know what the right thing to do is. It is a matter of political will. Not any longer a matter of policy. I will encourage them to get this done. As far as our actions, and jeh johnson, new head of the department of Homeland Security has been talking to everybody. Law enforcement, immigrant Rights Groups to do a thorough review of the approach towards enforcement, and we are doing that in consultation with democrats and republicans and with any interested party. I do think that the system we have right now is broken. I am not alone in that opinion. The only way to truly fix it is through congressional action. We have already tried to take as many administrative steps as we could to make it more consistent with common sense and more consistent with the American Peoples attitude which we should not be in the business of tearing families apart that are otherwise
Scrutiny. Hes covering what will be happening at this meeting tonight. What do you believe the campaigns want to see changed about the debates . Representatives from the campaigns gathering in alexandria, virginia to discuss their proposed reforms for the debate. What they wont, they dont have a cohesive vision of what they want. In fact, what some of the campaigns want are rather extreme. We know that the carson campaign, for instance, wants to have all 14 candidates on stage. They want to cap the debates in two hours. They want to have five minutes for opening and closing statements for each candidate. You do the math there. Before you get to commercials youre talking about 45 to 50 minutes left for an actual debate. On top of that, they want more time to answer the questions. What youre looking at is really more of a forum than a debate. What that reflects is the desire among some of these campaign, not all, they really dont like the debate. They would have the forums where they can