i think that the polls are serious, but i also think that if you re looking at the 2014 elections, the republicans are in pretty good shape. nate silver of the 538 blog came out today and said that the media is overplaying the shutdown, but the media overplays everything. ted cruz actually contacted you. i thought this was pretty interesting. so i was against the de-fund tactic early on and said so, maintained that. on tuesday, the five went down to washington, d.c. we mentioned this on monday night, headed down there, i m on the train, i thought maybe i would hear from somebody in congress, anybody, any smart p.r. person, the only office that contacted me was senator ted cruz and invited me over. i had a wonderful chat with him for about 15 minutes. and i think that the politics of the personal getting to know somebody actually works really well because i might not agree with the tactic, but i think he s a great guy. you should have told him to get darker ties. darker ties
historically wrong. about half of all debt increases since 1978 had some strings attached or came in a bundle with other things. so that s just wrong. and then i also love, and some republicans fall for this where obama says, how dare you use the debt limit debate or the debt ceiling debate to talk about spending. if we don t immediately agree to spend more money, we re not going to be able to spend more money. it s nonsensical and the idea this gets reported by the media with a straight face. i think when you re coming and begging for an increase in your debt, that s probably a pretty good time to talk about spending, what s gone wrong and what has to change starting tomorrow. it s a circle of stupidity. if you don t let us spend more, we won t be able to spend more. and we re not going to talk about it. you know, i think a lot about this in terms of my colleague and co-author matt welch talked about this as junky logic. if you have friends, and i suspect you have a few, who are d
in terms of the key terms it was lopsided. i don t know how many 8 of 10 were conservative. that s political. you know why it was. all the tea party groups sprung up all over the country. many of them closely allied with the republican party. a lot of them have partisan purposes. they were tyinging to get tax exempt status. maybe the unit did the wrong thing. but it is not like there weren t people trying to get the tax exempt status for political purposes. if the irs has been sharing private information which there seems to be information about that maybe leaking to the government. what do you think b about that? bungling? more bungling. i don t see a partisan scandal here. keep in mind the irs people worked republicans and democrats, career civil servants. been around for decades in the
will be changing it, although they re not commenting while the litigation is pending. i did a lot of passing out in college. john, they actually have free speech zones on campus, shouldn t the whole campus by the very nature of open minds be all free speech? you re exactly right, greg. these campuses should be free speech zones all over the place, but they re not. in fact, they re some of the most restrictive places on the planet. you have hate speech, indoor voices, you have outdoor voices, you have gender neutral language, can we please just leave these poor people alone and let them do their remedial math in peace? good point. well, it is a community college, wonderful people there, by the way. next up, a ridiculous item, the u.s. postal service has halted the distribution of a series of stamps that were inspired by the first lady, michelle obama s just move campaign, because some of them featured children not wearing safety gear. so, john, will you join me in saying thank goo
i don t know how many 8 of 10 were conservative. that s political. you know why it was. all the tea party groups sprung up all over the country. many of them closely allied with the republican party. a lot of them have partisan purposes. they were tyinging to get tax exempt status. maybe the unit did the wrong thing. but it is not like there weren t people trying to get the tax exempt status for political purposes. if the irs has been sharing private information which there seems to be information about that maybe leaking to the government. what do you think b about that? bungling? more bungling. i don t see a partisan scandal here. keep in mind the irs people worked republicans and democrats, career civil servants. been around for decades in the system. these aren t political operatives. you really don t want to be