. >> mitch: watch how quiet his whole body is. look at his hands. i would love to see an overlay of buster posey's swing. very similar. the great hitters slow it down. >> rich: houston has hit four homers. two by dominguez. two by castro. young crossed over. and makes the catch. let's try this at home as well. so our fox sports won game summary. new sports network coming this august. six solo home runs tonight. all nine oakland hitters. houston looking for their first win against the athletics. >> mitch: all nine batters have an rbi. all of them have been solo home runs tonight. >> rich: the solo shot in the first. dominguez in the third. oakland got their two in the fourth. josh donaldson and moss. dominguez again in the seventh. >> mitch: this is the deflating part. to an offense. they're five runs back. and they're looking at a 14 and 35 record if they can't make up the five runs over the next seven outs. >> mitch: that's the thing. you don't want young kids going up there. that's a great piece of hitting right there. >> rich: grossman shoots it

let's watch mitch's worse. it's coming up here in this ad. >> no president from either party is more powerful than the constitution. >> fifth amendment right and refused to answer questions. >> i will not answer any questions or testify about the subject matter of this committee's meeting. >> didn't know at that time. >> i am not aware of that. >> i don't know. >> i don't know. >> i have no memory of anyone doing that. >> i didn't know that. >> not personally responsible. >> do you believe it is illegal? >> i don't believe it is. >> when the president does it, that means it is not illegal. >> joining me, "the huffington post" howard fineman, also an msnbc contributor and associative editor and columnist for "the hill." you're so humble, but it's all true. you know what i think, i think it's so interesting, this race. the guy is so unpopular, the only way mitch can get reelected, and i call him mitch favorably, okay, you don't like me, i can see by the polls you don't like me, but those government people are so

and each time, charlene says mitch was the one who went out knocking on doors to find a new space. >> we would still be in this living room right here, i think, if he wasn't with us. >> reporter: mitch took on the school's financing, fundraising, grant writing, networking, licensing, all the business decisions, so charlene could focus on the children. in 2006, he gave up sports medicine to join her full time at their school. >> it was just a mission that i couldn't go away from and my wife is very hard to say no to. >> reporter: and neither the city nor community could say no to mitch. together, they have built the school's permanent home. it serves more than 400 students a week. mitch says he is grateful to help children reach their full potential like michael, son of sloane kraft. >> since we've found the school, i just feel like the possibilities for michael are endless. >> when i see the difference it makes for these families, it's all the confirmation i need that we're doing the right thing. >> reporter: so for working behind the scenes to nurture special needs children, this wee

and i'm time charlene says mitch was the one who went out knocking on doors to find a new space eache. >> we would still be in this living room right here, i think, if he wasn't with us. >> reporter: mitch took on the school's financing, fundraising, grant writing, networking, licensing, all the business decisions, so charlene could focus on the children. in 2006, he gave up sports medicine to join her full time at their school. >> it was just a mission that i couldn't go away from and my wife is very hard to say no to. >> reporter: and neither the city nor community could say no to mitch. together, they have built the school's permanent home. it serves more than 400 students a week. mitch says he is grateful to help children reach their full potential like michael, son of sloane kraft. >> since we've found the school, i just feel like the possibilities for michael are endless. >> when i see the difference it makes for these families, it's all the confirmation i need that we're doing the right thing. >> reporter: so for working behind the scenes to nurture special needs children, thi

mitch cofounded the program with his wife charlene. >> never in a million years this is what i thought i would spend my life doing. >> reporter: charlene began to offer speech therapy for four special needs children in their pleasanton house in 2001. but mitch had no idea two years later that the nonprofit would explode to more than 100 kids with developmental delays. after a full days work in sports medicine he would come home to help charlene tackle the growing pains. >> people would come up to our front door and say please help me. i don't foe what to do. how can you say no? so he helped me convert that dream and would work it. >> if we don't give them answers, if we don't give them some place to have hope, there is nowhere for them to go. >> reporter: over the years the school outgrew its space eight times and each time mitch was the one that went out knocking on doors to find a new space. >> we would still be in this living room right here i think if he wasn't with us. >> reporter: mitch took on the school's financing, licensing, all the business decisions so charlene could focus

i don't think mitch mcconnell put out a dictate of how you should vote on this.... >> jon: hasn't that book come out though mcconnell, you guys were at a retreat. i think you were still in the senate. you were probably there and he said we're not going to cooperate with this administration. we're not going to give them any bipartisan victory. even a senator went on record at that meeting at the library of congress. you guys were in the basement of the library of congress. >> i don't think mitch ever meant to say we're never going to cooperate with president obama because he... >> jon: but... he didn't negotiate. he negotiated off the fiscal cliff. mitch mcconnell deserves a lot of credit. honestly he does. he and joe biden, yes. he and joe biden literally... >> jon: don't you think that has a resounding effect on a caucus when the leader says, hey, man, whatever happens, if you work with this guy, that's a victory for him. you can't do that. think of all the common sense things. infrastructure bank. background checks that have fallen by the wayside because of thi

how much trouble is mitch mcconnell actually in?k he is in that much trouble unless he is complacent which he clearly is not going to do. i mean, that's when people in his position actually get into trouble if they don't make the early and aggressive moves to stave off any opposition and put themselves in a good spot for re-election. so that is exactly what we're seeing senator mcconnell doing and he is playing to the base with this ad but the irs panel concerns a lot of democrats and independents as well so it is not purely a base issue the way a benghazi ad would be. >> i have to say, jim, on its face, using nixon against president obama, comparing him to a -- that is a -- i've never seen a republican president do that. a republican candidate do that. >> i will beat my table colleagues to the joke that finally republicans have acknowledged nixon as a bad guy. that is the big news. >> seriously, that is a big thing for the senate minority leader to run an ad in which nixon is the bad guy. >> when you think of the really big preside

mitch mcconnell had to face himself on "meet the press" today.s. >> there are restrictions now on the kinds of activities that, for example, a 501c-3 and 4 organizations, charitable organizations are being abused by not just people on the right, but most of the so-called charitable organizations that are involved in political activity in this country who are, in my judgment, involved in arguable violations of their tax-free status and violations of the campaign law, happen to be groups on the left. so that is a problem. >> big groups on the left, oops, this is how he responded to the 26-year-old clip. >> i was wrong 25 years ago, i've been right for the last two decades. >> kind of like us, huh, martin? >> well, what can you say to that, honestly? it's ludicrous. and the whole idea, ed, about them never mentioning the name "karl rove" in relation to 501c-4s is just sacrilegious. if you want to have a discussion about -- >> this morning karl -- >> as harry reid said, what has karl rove done to improve the social welfare -- >> well, this morning on

i want to ask you, what did you hear from mitch mcconnell?tch mcconnell wants congress to be the focus but did not rule out appointing a special council. that's an important point. congress is going to press, but that is an issue that's only going to build. >> katie, do you think he's right that congress is the right vehicle, that congress can get the public or do you think the congressional investigations automatically become too political? >> well, let's see. they're starting their investigation, let's see if congress has the teeth to do this job and to do it well. and if not, then we certainly need someone on the outside to do it. the bottom line, larry, we need answers. and how we get there, i think we can debate and discuss. but we've got to have answers to move forward productively. >> john steel gordon, congress played a prominent role in the nixon impeachment business, you've got to give them that. >> indeed it did. that's when it started almost 40 years, almost to this day when the congressional hearing started and that's when people

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mitch is a wonderful mayor but i'm glad you said the public because even mitch would admit they've beenushed the people more than they've aided the people along. >> that's a beautiful thing of what happened in the aftermath of katrina, we all became activists of some sort. never viewed ourselves that way. i always considered might be socially conscious but never an activist but after katrina, we had no choice. we had to be active and hold people's feet to the fire because we felt betrayed. a lot of people elected to office didn't do their job so we felt like it was incumbent upon us to make change or hold the people's feet to the fire who were there. tavis: i've talked to so many people over the years since katrina who, for a lot of different reasons, have moved to new orleans. birthplace. this is home for you and i'm not saying this to cast aspersion, i'm delighted people have discovered new orleans since katrina and for a lot of reasons, some who have moved there started out volunteering and fell in love with the city as a volunteer and moved which raises the question for me. it's one

they can't get anybody in the ring against mitch mcconnell. this plays into kentuckians resentment of government. they're taking up the guns. it's the evil irs. it's the revenuers and all that stuff. you hand that to mitch mcconnell, it's an extra 50,000 votes in rural kentucky. it just is. >> so the president, what can the president do, joe, right now, to meet this concern? i think it's a big one. i think this has got some legs. what does he do about the fact he's got, perhaps, bureaucrats, perhaps somebody at the high level of bureaucracy of the irs knew about this two years ago and had to flak it? remember they were denying it a year later after they knew about it in '12. knew about it in '11. denying it in '12. the pr person may have talked to the pr person in the white house. they're always circling the wagons, joe. you know how it works. we have a stinker coming here. you better be ready for it. >> in the military, you're responsible for everything that goes on during your watch. that means the director of the irs at the very least is re

look, you remember when mitch mcconnell was asked what his legislative agenda was. he said to make barack obama a one-term president. that failed. so now he just wants to undermine any program like obama care, we're going to have the 36th or 37th vote to repeal this law of the land next week, and they sit there trying to concoct ways to undermine the president, his authority, and anybody like hillary clinton that might step up next. that's their agenda. >> what is the point of congress, then, at the moment, ma'am? because many of us look at this house, this storied house, and we think, what is the point of these people coming in -- and they have plenty of recesses -- but coming in and doing absolutely nothing about the major issues that confront the nation today? >> i feel so bad about that because you're not the only one asking that question. the popularity and the approval rating for congress is so very low. because the american people say the same thing. what are they doing there? is this really the people's business? why are they there at all? and it hurts me be

-- mitch nnhaving challengers from the t party and now mitch mcconnell can defend the tea party. and every republican can come in defense of the tea party which was as we know wronged in this. everyone agrees to that. so it kind of plays into them. because the mid-term elections, your base can be narrower. because those are the people who turn out. >> but the smarter republicans have their eye on the long game. and the long game is they need more people to be open to their party. this is why even if you have a continued lathering of these scandals, i would not expect republicans to drop the idea of going forward on immigration reform. it is very important for the long-term future of the party. and i think the key republican strategists understand that. >> and have to have people saying this is what the republican party believes. and to the extent that the news cycles are taken up by complicated scandals and exciting members of your caucus saying extraordinary things about these scandals, it just crowds out any chance that you can talk about immigration. or you can talk about sele

that's why tonight i'm giving a wag of my finger to senators mitch and chong here. of course, these kentucky ken-tokers are saying hemp is different from marijuana because it contains almost no t.h.c. and is used to make sustainable products like rope and paper. in fact when asked about his support for hemp rand paul said quote, "i'm fascinated by the paper thing. one acre of hemp is equal to two acres of trees. trees take 15 years and hemp one season. somebody said the declaration of independence is is on hemp paper. i don't know if that's true or not. i've heard it though." sadly, folks... [ cheers and applause ] sadly, puff the magic senator here might be on to something about the declaration being written on hemp. it would explain why it's signed by founding fathers john hancock, ben franklin and zeppelin rules. next up, folks, everybody loves disney world. the rides, the costumes, the walt-sicles. so much fun. but win thing ruins the disney magic and that's the long lines. fortunately if you've got the cash, there's a way to get a jump on the riffraff. >> casti

mitch is on his own personal mission.s to make every partisan comment he can possibly think of. he takes to the floor every day to bash the obama administration. again, trying to enhance his very conservative credentials. and he's really never talking about what his vision for the country or for kentucky are. that's why he's in such a poor standing in the state. >> congressman john yarmuth, as ever, thank you, sir. >>> stay with us. the day's top lines are coming up. >> what's become clearly apparent is a culture throughout the federal government, not just the irs but the department of justice, the state department, et cetera. that's embarrassing for the country. these are things you typically see in the third world. have a gooood nig. here youou go. you, , too. i'm goining to dream about t that steaka. i'i'm going toto dream about thatat tiramisu.u. whwhat a nightht, huh? but, u um, can thehe test drivie be over nonow? head b back to the d dealership?p? [ mamale announcncer ] it's praractically y yours. but we stitill ne

why don't you get a drink with mitch mcconnell? [laughter] >> 18 years ago after newt gingrich said republicans had tan over congress, president bill clinton famously said, the president is still relevant here. we were reminded of that moment this week at obama's news conference when an abc correspondent asked the president if he still had the juice to get the rest of it agenda through congress. the president paraphrase mark twain in saying that the rumors demise might be- exaggerated, and then added this. >> you seem to suggest somehow these folks over there have no responsibilities and that my job is to somehow get them to behave. that is their job. >> the president thought it was a gunss's job to pass control bill, the senate failed to do so. he is struggling to get something done and immigration. heat fromng republicans on everything from bed gauzy to syria and he cannot shut down guantanamo bay, but the voters still like him. and the unemployment rate, we learned at week's end, dropped to 7.5%, heat from republicans a seven-we

mitch mcconnell is in an election fight. want to put anything through the senate that could make him look weak to the conservatives. but you never know. president obama and john boehner, there's one thing that they both really need to work on that benefits each, you know, that's mutually beneficial and that's their legacy. they need a legacy issue here. they don't have that yet. >> so this has been a long time coming. we've been wanting to get down here. >> yes. >> i think it's because you want the million dollar view. how do you get your work done? >> it's quite impressive, isn't it? >> it is. >> the only time i don't like the view is around 4:30 or 5:00 when it's sunny out. because then you just get this amazing blast of sunshine right into your eyes. and it's a very bad glare. in fact, when i have to deal with that i have to put on my now with alex wagner hat on so i can actually type on the key board. >> yeah. >> but other than that you look out there, it's extraordinary. and when there's big moments when there's ever a

here now is former federal prosecutor, mitch enner, counsel at will being as lander. welcome back.'s get this right. elizabeth fowler, i'm not casting aspersions, this is from the "washington post" story, elizabeth fowler was a top white house health care aide. she met with hundreds of people. sometimes in small groups like one or two. now, the bush crowd, richard painter, who was in charge of ethics in the bush crowd, said no. that you should not meet with outside groups, because nonpublic information will come of it. who has got this story right? >> larry, i would think that you as a free market guy, you've mentioned that free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity, would want the people who have the biggest stake in this game to be part of the process. and what we're talking about here, there are former bush people who were quoted in that same story as saying, there is nothing wrong with bringing people who have a stake in the game who have billions and frankly up to trillions of dollars invested in our health care system. >> insiderism. >> no -- >> washington post ins

how significant is mitch mcconnell's statement on the sfloor. >> i think it's very significant.gnals that the republican are still going to push to have 60 votes for this nomination. you had some senior members come out against it. mr. mcconnell, senator cornyn, senator rubio, grassley, and hatch. senator hatch said something very importance this week. he said, a lot of people don't feel mr. perez has been straightforward with us. this is the first time that you've had a senator identify one of the core problems with this nomination. mr. perez has been telling one story to the senate under oath. and other witnesses in the house investigation and documentary evidence has been telling another story about this st. paul -- >> do you think he should be confirmed? >> no. absolutely not. >> do you think he will be confirmed? glo. >> i don't think -- i'm not making those kind of predictions on this show. >> all right. we have to take one more break. coming up, hits and misses of the week. >>> time for hits and misses of the week. mary, first to you. >> i'm giving a big hit to bhoef this

chris: let me ask you about mitch mcconnell. it seems he won't win any popularity contests, not a likable personality. he can say i can be a tough customer and not very pleasant. we need someone to look out for them, i'm your guy. >> i spoke to his campaign manager the other day. there was a happy man. not only does mcconnell not have a democratic opponent yet, what mcconnell was really worried about was a primary challenge from the tea party. now he puts on the tea party anti-government hat himself. he says i'm going to use all of my experience in washington to fight your fight, tea party people. chris: like a schoolyard kid, the kid is on the cement, do you pound him or let him up? the republicans have their chance. they better take it while they got it. >> seizing the facts is probably the best way to go forward. chris: you don't like this rough play? >> no, it hasn't worked for the republicans. the republicans do have to be careful. their image of hyperpartisan aggressive, bang, bang, bang. the public it's clear doesn't like

great, a win-win for mitch mcconnell, a lose-lose for the country, another reason to hate the irs.turn now from the irs scandal to that old chestnut benghazi. more than 130 members of the house of representatives have cosigned for a solution. it will interview thomas pickering and admiral mike mullen who wrote the authoritative report on benghazi, and who the republicans have not previously allowed to testify. the republicans are pushing the point that susan rice gave false information in her talking points following the attack. the participate responded. >> obama: the whole issue of talking points out there this process has been a side show. what we have been very clear about throughout was immediately after this event happened we were not clear who exactliried it out, what it had occurred and what the motivations were. and suddenly three days ago this gets spun up as if there's something new to the story. there's no there there. >> michael: in response darrell issa criticized the president for not calling the incident a terrorist attack. it's not good enough that he did call it a

mitch mcconnell you are done. up next jeff flake.e being so down on yourself, you said ever since you voted against the man chin toomey gun bill your approval ratings have been somewhat just below pond scum. first don't be so hard on pond scum, and second, you could be this guy. >> this gan lost his life savings on a carnival game like this one. >> poor guy. at least the banana has dread locks. and finally tea party pooper ted cruz. you were born in canada. i almost lost it when i read in the national review that your defense is you, quote, consider yourself a natural born citizen. i consider myself a member of marine five, but that doesn't stop me from getting arrested every time i come close to putting my arm around adam levine. ted cruz you are done! and i'm done talk now. push-up routine go. ♪ >> michael: really good brett. someone is always in our "war room" here. check us out online at current.com/thewarroom. that's also where you can link up to our twitter and facebook page. thank for joining us here in "the war room." tonight

"outfront" tonight, tim clemente is a former fbi agent and counter-terrorism and mitch silver is the former director of the nypd intelligence divisions analytic and cyber units. you heard his father in that piece. he said couldn't they handle my son? the agents knew he had mixed martial arts training. should they have been better prepared to handle a confrontation with him? >> well, jake, that's hard to say. in the circumstance and from what we've heard, an agent was thrust against the wallabee the table. the individual was reaching for something, a long object, possibly that samurai sword whether it was decorative or not. whether you're in that circumstance, there is no time to stop and reason with a guy like this. he's been arrested for assaults and extenuating circumstances, a traffic stop where' tacked someone over a parking space. and he's a mixed martial arts fighterment you don't want to get into a tuesday well a guy that is a mixed martial arts fighter when he knows you have a weapon on your belt. that point i'm sure the agent drew his weapon according to the fbi as use of fo

you heard mitch mcconnell.here's a reason why you're seeing pundits saying it's a post policy party. the only thing they disagree on is they want to despise and dislodge this president. you see it with everything, with immigration where he can't tough it otherwise it can't pass. this is not about denvers. this is about a party that -- >> i also sense con ddescending attitudes, it's his fault and these are people committed to obstructionism. but nobody said what is wrong with you guys, it's his fault. and you know, i think that -- i hear a lot about how good lyndon johnson was as he was handling the senate and washington crowd. let me show you this picture where he was getting an a for this in his face. he's known for leaning in and getting in people's face and he wasn't a senator but that was johnson's style. but you also had to deal that his speaker was sam rayburn who he and rayburn came up to the ranks together in texas. you're not dealing with john boehner when you look at a relationship between the speaker

. >> why don't you get a drink with mitch mcconnell, they ask. really? why don't you get a drink with mitch mcconnell. [ laughter ] >> reporter: after iran-contra, ronald reagan shook up his staff to regain control. >> a few months ago, i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. >> reporter: bill clinton had to overcome impeachment, george w. bush, the iraq war and failure to reform social security. the obama team seems confident its second-term problems will blow over, despite warning signs. >> when you're under siege, when your whole legislative agenda and your legacy are in danger of being swallowed up by conspiracy theorists, that's when you have to be more direct and more aggressive. >> reporter: tonight, signs that the message may be sinking in. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> and still ahead here tonight, new crash tests designed to be more like real-life crashes. not good news here for a lot of people who own a lot of popular brands. >>> and later, an unbelievable chance encounter at a high school track meet that cha

. >> mitch mcconnell's office circumstan circulated what's become basically a weekly memo saying the president should rethink the purpose of his event today. quote, i hope he will use it instead as a platform to prepare women for the actual consequences many of them will soon face under obamacare. the president needs to get out of in front of this, quote, train wreck, quoting max baucus, before americans, men and women alike, are completely blindsided by it. first ad pegged to, guess what, health care. >> obamacare's coming. it's already causing layoffs, higher premiums are next. mitch mcconnell saw it coming, leading the fight against obamacare. >> this bill is a legislative train wreck. >> he was right then and now it's architect is admitting it. >> i can see a huge train wreck coming down. >> you're going to hear those words a lot, particularly with republicans who are worried about republican primaries like mitch mcconnell. >>> the battle over what happened in benghazi has become a full-on partisan fight. democrats see a political fishing expedition, republicans see a scandal. a

>senate. >> dana: you think mitch mcconnell is in trouble?re's not even a canada. > >> bob: look. you can't -- to politicize this thing before you have the hearings and go on the air with that kind of rug, that's a muck raking disgraceful ad and it's typical of a guy from a bourbon state. i would not have done that. in my worst day i wouldn't have done that. >> you bragged about things worse than that. >> kimberly: sometimes when you wake up from a nap, you're a little cranky, bob. > >> bob: never mind. >> if you think that's helpful in this discussion having that kind of crap on the air? >> dana: i think the politics of it is very serious. no matter what, the hearings will take a long time to get out. their pr problem is even possibly much larger even than their hill problem. one of the things that happened that we found out is that one of the groups that was targeted, they said well, the irs said you can get your status, 501c4 status, but you have to promise that you will never, ever protest a planned parenthood site. well, so the bureaucra

that's mitch mcconnell.uble is, he's not really waiting to come to terms with the president, is he? >> i would be satisfied to think even if he doesn't want to drink with the president, the issue he has right now i'm sure to some degree, to some degree, this doesn't explain all of it, senator mcconnell, his greatest fear is a challenge from the right in kentucky so he's doing everything he can to signify to the tea party folks in kentucky and the anti-obama forces there that he's with them and then see how he is after that. january 2010 he did an interview with the new york times and made a decision from the beginning not to give the president cooperation on any major bill because that would say he's figured this out. that's not what we want from our leaders. we have big problems in this country and they deserve real answers and they deserve some element of cooperation. we have two parties. they don't agree on everything. surely there are things that we ought to agree on and to take a position of blind obstr

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell warned about this move last spring.ake a listen. >> earlier this year, dozens of tea party affiliated grupts across the country learned what it was like to draw the attention of the speech police when they received a lengthy questionnaire from the irs demanding, listen to this, demanding attendants lists, meeting transcripts and donor information. >> yeah, by the way, it's illegal. it's illegal to ask for donor information. that's just a side point here. we have congress and tea party with me on set for most of the hour this evening cnbc contributor and co-host of the msnbc "the cycle" and former director of the republican governor's association. david schweiker, why now, how do you read this? what is going on here? >> you know, have you ever had one of those afternoons where you are trying to get your head around? at least i have one reality. it's been a really bad week for the administration. and i actually now have to apologize no some of my conservative activist groups out there that a year ago i thought were being

couch that with the understanding that i had gone out to lunch with mitch cupcheck a month before and he pointblank asked me, "are you going to go back to coaching." i had no intention of going back to coaching again. when i sat down with those two on saturday morning, the question-- one question mitch asked me was, we just talked a month ago and you said you had no intention of coming back to coach. what's changed? >> i said, what's changed is it's the los angeles lakers. this is the bus family. this is my fiance -- >> daughter of. >> jerry bus. and these are players that i've coached before and have won a championship. that's the reason i'm intrigued by it. i'm not saying i'm going to do this, but that's the reason it was intriguing. >> rose: and that was saturday morning, and sunday night mitch called up and said-- what did you think? did you simply say in some great philosophical understanding of humanity i understand and walked away with no great emotion or did you say, "you s.o.b.?" >> no, i asked him what their decision was and he told me. and i said, you know, well, you know,

mitch mcconnell spoke a few moments ago. that focus on the tea party. white house is springing into action in full damage control mode. president obama tried to stop the bleeding from trifecta of trouble making remarks from the east room on the irs. >> we're going to have to make sure the laws are clear so that we can have confidence that they are enforced in a fair and impartial way and that there's not too much ambiguity surrounding these laws. >> let's bring in joy, nick and arol. watching mitch mcconnell showing up there not a surprise. this irs scandal one of the side benefits for the republican party is that it gives them a chance to unite around something rather than focus on the division that was developing on immigration and budgets and frankly division on guns. less so there. this irs is a way for the entire party to rally itself. >> it's almost cosmic. when you think about it. i can't think of a better scandal to erupt to motivate precisely the part of the party that was upset for a while. the tea party. the tax c