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Fixed but he hasn t weighed in, this is the only way i see doing it. in some ways that might help him get to a deal. why didn t he work with democrats? i don t think he has conservative impulses when it comes to health care. i remember during the primary god, to sean hannity, we can t let people die on the streets. i think he has an impulse to covering as many people as possible. why didn t he start with a bipartisan effort? the incentive structure used to be if you could call a bill bipartisan you re rewarded and today you re penalized. that s how they came to a conclusion, doesn t have much cross party support and steve bannon tells him stick to your base, if you lose your base, you ve lost everything and the president was sticking to a republican only negotiation. that doesn t work if you have two you can lose. we re going to let matt weigh in in a little bit. ....
Washington in the late summer or early fall. and who s on the stage? the cardinals, the business leaders, head of ibm and google, all these kinds of people saying do this for america and they re going to say oh, boy, i can t vote for it, but let it go forward. that s our strategy. senator, i ve heard some advocates of reform saying they re almost concerned republicans will get so little credit for immigration reform because they ve been dragging their feet in the end they re going to decide we re not going to get benefit with if we jump on board and the chances are diminishing as time goes on. they re not going to see the political benefit. i don t buy that. they may not get that much credit. we have kept our bill bipartisan. senator mccain and i and the gang of eight have resisted any attempt to make this a partisan issue. i was urged by people in my ....
If that would have been all you knew about the republican party, you could have predicted the last two years in congress almost perfectly. of course, most people didn t predict it perfectly. they have been puzzled by republicans who seem unwilling to touch anything with a democratic name on it. but you know what? mcconnell explains that whole thing to us, too. in january 2011, he gave an interview to the atlantic in which he said we worked very hard to keep our fingerprints off these proposals because we thought that the only way the american people would know a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan. you know what? mcconnell was correct. i think that s one of the most profound things anyone has said about politics. what he understood is what makes a bill bipartisan is not the ideas in it or the spirit in which it s offered. it s whether any legislatures from the other party sign off. if they do, by definition, the bill is partisan. so by keeping his members ....
Important thing we want to achieve for president obama, to be a one-term president. ouch. so partisan, sure, but honest. if that would have been all you knew about the republican party, you could have predicted the last two years in congress almost perfectly. of course, most people didn t predict the last few years in washington perfectly. they ve been puzzled by republicans who seem unwilling to touch anything with a democratic name on it. up to and including bills the republicans have supported and even come up with themselves in the first price. but you know what? mcconnell explains that whole thing to us, too. in january 2011, he gave an interview to the atlantic in which he said we worked very hard to keep our fingerprints off these proposals because we thought that the only way the american people would know a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan. you know what? mcconnell was correct. i think that s one of the most profound things anyone has said abou ....
today wisconsin is a fall preview. they look at wisconsin, and they see america s battleground between people who want to work together to solve problems and penal who want to divide and conquer. democratic challenger and milwaukee mayor tom barrett on his bid to oust the republican governor in a recall race. then battleground politics with virginia republican governor bob mcdonald, u.s. jobs and the bloodshed in syria. plus, unemployment is up, the dow is down, and the presidential election is 157 days away. analysis from mark zande of moody s analytics, stechen moore of the wall street journal, and dan balz of the washington post. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. 19 months after electing republican scott walker as governor, wisconsin voters decide tuesday whether to recall him. walker s critics were galvanized by his first budget designed to fix a $3.6 billion shortfall. it included stripping collective bargaining rights for most public w ....