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Unearthed or dissected during the confirmation process. both of them were ultimately rejected by the senate which was a big and embarrassing blow for nixon. so for his third try nixon chose harry blackman because he was seen as so uncontroversial he would be hard for anybody to vote against. >> judge blackman made a good first impression and the senators will vote to decide his fate and barring the unexpected his nomination should sail through. thus far no one has even asked to testify against him. but the unexpected aural has occurred twice, so most senators still are not committing themselve...

>> it's the -- jonathan, one of your colleagues at new york magazine has a great metaphor for this. he says the positive take on the economy is sort of like saying the knicks were winning by 20 points last night and they only lost because their assistant coach took over and decided play the rest of the game with just three players. that sounds comforting except the same assistant coach is still there, and he keeps saying his play three guy strategy will work. >> i love working in sports metaphors whenever possible. sfli feel most comfortable working in them. >> what he is saying in less colorf...

In generalections. people have made up their mind, no ad will change their mind. but those ads -- >> in primaries they are deadly particularly in republican primaries and that ad in particular for newtgrinastating because it hit -- it was the kitchen sink. >> what did it say about him? >> it said thattize an insider, washington pal, and look he even pals around with nancy pelosi didn't we just fire her. >> didn't you see the loving looks they managed with the camera shot there. >> real quick on that. the interesting thing, if i were newt i wou the caption of him and nancy together that's what ...

That's proud of what he does, believes with all of his heart that the tax plan that governor romney's pushing will destroy this country. none of that passion. none of the zingers. none of the come-backers were there. >> a combination of passion, upbeat, edge at the end. that issue of fairness, that's where i would have liked to see obama finish the debate last night, really get behind that. and it's the perfect issue for him against romney. it speaks to all of these other things out there without him trying to take it on directly, which he obviously doesn't feel comfortable doing right now. >>...

But everyone's calling for more passion, more of the indignation of half-truths put by mitt romney. >> in my world you can't invent passion. passion is something you poss s possess, the way ted kennedy possessed, great actors possess it. it's not something you can pretend. that was romney's problem before this debate last night. now, oddly enough, it's the president's problem. and i think most significantly the questions that obama did not ask, and the responses he failed to make, qualify for a wonderful french expression [ speaking french ] which means staircase wit. the great retort you thin...