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lower taxes, less government and more freedom and by tom dougherty a republican strategist to george pataki. i want to start with you, tom. we had a 16-day government shutdown and a few days on the edge of default before congress backed away from the edge of the cliff. the headlines read losing a lot to get little and baynier gop in disarray. the conventional wisdom is the republican party especially the tea party was the big loser in the whole debacle. "usa today" rejected that and had the tea party and senator ted cruz among the winners. how do you see all this? >> i don't know where "usa today" gets their information, but clearly the losers are the conservative presidential candidates going forward. ted cruz and rand paul and quite possibly marco rubio. i don't think the book was written on him yet. a lot was expected of him going into the year. they could never win this country. that's the problem right now. you know, groups like freedom works and the tea party are very interested in running this right wing agenda that may win in certain parts of the country, but it doesn't win in the c

i know you--you bring up pete wilson in here, and you also bring up george pataki, the governor of the state of new york, who are both republicans who you say talk out of both sides of their mouth. >> guest: well, exactly. pete wilson had often inveighs against judicial activism, and yet who does he appoint as chief justice of the california supreme court? a man named ron george, who has just recently overturned a law in california that required parental consent in order for a minor to get abortion. now, oddly enough, the most liberal member of the court, stanley mosk, who was appointed by governor pat brown back in the '60s, actually voted to uphold the law. so in other words, what you had was the spectacle of this wilson appointee voting to overturn a law that a pat brown appointee was voting to uphold; very odd when it's pete wilson who often complains about activist judges. c-span: on your list of federal judges, us district court judge robert aguilar, appointed to a vacancy in san jose, california, by president carter, was convicted in 1990 of leaking a wiretap to a mobster and ly