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A plan to replace obamacare is more about politics than policy. here's what he told "des moines register." he said, you know, i could maybe give you ten reasons why this bill shouldn't be considered, but republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the campaign. that's pretty much as much of a reason as the substance of the bill. your reaction. >> michael kinsly famously says a gaffe in washington is when someone tells the truth without meaning to. i don't know if chuck grassley meant to or not, but that's a fact. this is a rock and a har...

Their lives but revolt at the prospect of any slight cuts to its largest programs, medicare, social security, or the removal of tax benefits or health care and home mortgages. this condition has been building for years. in a 1995 book, michael kinsly explained what he saw as the roots of the then populist anger at washington that newt gingrich had ex employed wiploited with with america. he wrote american voters make flagrantly income patable demands, then explode in self-righteous outrage when the politicians fail to deliver. he titled the book "big babies" in honor of the american people. th...

Committee time where they should be talking about what happened in benghazi. and i don't think they really got to that much today. >> it was interesting, jeffrey toobin, you're a former prosecutor. gowdy, the chairman. he's a former prosecutor down in south carolina. he says he's not a prosecutor right now. he's very defensive on this issue. he says he's an investigator. he only wants to come up with the truth. if you listen closely, the way he was making his case, he sounded like a prosecutor. >> sure, he does. you know, michael kinsly, my mentor in journalism, you know, he had kinsly law abo...

Remember, like, when a cia agent is killed, his name isn't released generally. there might be a star that recognized that somewhere. so i think greenwald was right and snowden were right to bring some of these bulk data collection stories to public attention. and journalists have been doing this for a long time. where greenwald is way out of line is when he -- he didn't acknowledge this last night, you know, he said when he's had some reversals, well, maybe i'll release more of these secret documents. as if somebody elected him to make these decisions. and what michael kinsly pointed out in an...

"time magazine" had chosen einstein the great scientist. charles disagreed. he picked churchill the indispensable statesman who led the fight against hitler and sounded the alarm on communism. politics trumping science. that might explain why krauthammer traded a big time medical career to a one-way ticket to washington. why once here his eyes locked on to a help wanted add in the political opinion magazine the new republican. >> i showed it to my wife. she said why don't you apply? how can i apply? i have never written anything. don't know anybody. she said you write it i will handy live it. ...