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on their side, of course. at one level, you might worry that the words will run out, and missiles will take their place. but you might ask why it s just words, and not weapons yet? could it be that both sides know their own limitations in any form of military conflict? our diplomatic editor mark urban has been working through the logic. american carriers exercising off korea. but these pictures were taken in may, and none of them are there now. the president seems out of sync with his military and his top diplomats. today, he emphasised the defensive nature of us precautions. i think what the president was reaffirming his that the united states has the capability to fully defend itself from any attack and defend our allies. and we will do so. the american people should sleep well at night. tillerson is in tune with generations of american statesman who stuck to teddy roosevelt s maxim, speak softly and carry a big stick. but one reason he can be sanguine is because amer ....
Shutdowns. it helped get clinton re-elected in 96. i think newt might argue the opposite. if you shut down the government this time, i would argue it would be worse because you haven t passed any spending bills in the congress. in 1995, they passed six or seven of the spending bills, keeping the government running. now, nothing has been passed. so if you actually shut the government down now, there would be more services that would be affected. and the public would feel it sooner than they even did in 1995. i agree with you. i think the ire of the public would be, i can t believe you guys are doing this again. newt would take issuing he would say their house seat loss wasn t as large as it could have been. they retained the majority but they lost seats and there was a rebellion against gingrich and he was no longer the speaker. they lost 7 out of 11 governor s races that year. ....