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when we are souter when the fire department is sued, those are things we need to respond to. i want to do as much work as possible, but i also want to be cognizant of how we impact this. >> thank you for the question, supervisor. i want folks to have an understanding of something, and i know that, unfortunately, all of you are well to aware of it, and that is, especially tthose who have been here for a longer period of time. when i started, we did not have any of our clients really on a budget. so what we did over the course of the last several years -- from my perspective, you can see how we spend our money. but also, as a containment tool to make sure that we were all prioritizing the work that we need to do, i established budgets based on historical averages for all my clients, including the board of supervisors. so we can track, throughout the course of the year, how much we were spending on your behalf, and if we were getting near a limit of what you had experienced over the average of the last five years or so, then i could come to you and say, supervisor, you're gettin

government has taken on more debt crowded out more opportunities out your government big bad justice souter's government how have people are employed and how i'm going stuff like that it's their loss or as are there other measurements of government scope as well the truth of the matter is that george w. bush was the one who ran this debt up let's just be real here to pay two for two wars that were paid for a prescription drug bill that was on paid for and now obama said you know how do you know anyone on generally when i'm going to residents of course i do there is no it is do they just live high off the hog on it or what i mean what percentage of. people are welfare queens in your opinion what are they should have people are well over seventy yet i keep saying on the other says i know a lot of people this is the wrong government and since this is not the power to ask away yes it would seem to us that us as it is today aren't easy it's just like if you want to conason claims you can and florida announce that they were going to do a drug testing effort to make sure that people who are welfare

obama's great uncle told me oh yeah peg leg souter because he lost his leg in the war. i thought, i love that. i went to the archives and i found his civil war military record and his civil war pension and there was his medical file. the man had two legs. [laughter] and i thought oh, what do i do with that? and then i thought, but you know, this was the kind of man who made you think that was possible. he was the kind of man who is bigger than life and of course he would have lost his leg in the war. [laughter] >> speaking of war as a source of evidence or the war records, there is this one beautifully written passage in i want to read it first of all because it reflects how beautiful the prose is in the book but it's -- hopefully this book matches the advance can't be that i have. yes it does. [laughter] i'm going to read this passage to get you all excited about what you are you're in store for when you read the book but also it raises question just about how you discovered in certain wreck or does that surprise to so here she writes, and this is about cbn james. how

>> it is harder to tell them the election of 2008 hatband, it was all but certain that david souter and john paul stevens were going to leave. that is more or less an open secret that they were on their way out. it is less certain heading into 2012 the election because ruth bader ginsburg is the oldest member of the quarter. she's 78. she's in good health, full of energy. has often said that her idol, louis brandeis served until he was 82 and it sounded like a good member. just tiscali have come a 70 sixers vote, justice kennedy, 75 years old. once you get in the upper 70s, it's not always your choice when you leave the court. so i would say it is less clear to the next justice would leave. also, politics plays a big part. ruth ginsburg is going to be a lot more likely to consider leaving if barack obama is president dennis mitt romney's president by the same token, justice scalia and justice kennedy would be much more likely to leave under a romney presidency than under an obama presidency. >> is there such thing as the roberts court? >> absolutely, absolutely. the story of the supreme

the liberal critics call dressage elitist, just because the uniform makes you look like lady mary souter from "downtown abbey." >> reporter: and that has played perfectly into democratic attacks on romney as a rich elitist, out of touch with normal americans. >> the romney spend $77,000 a year on my upkeep, and after mitt romney reveals health care and ships your job overseas, i dare say your life will not be as nearly as poampered as mine. after all, you're not one of his horses. >> in any event, ann romney's horse, rafalca, didn't do that well at the olympics, but put on a decent showing. the europeans are great at dressage. we have not been quite so strong in this country. a decent showing, but not that great. we'll have to see how now it does politically. >> if horse losing comes into the conversation. back to this ad, people will be struck one of two ways. either, a, he pays $77,000 a year for a horse, and he doesn't get me, or, b, he's really stupid. >> i think this is an ad that accomplishes nothing. because the people who already dislike him, will get further down the road for di

i'm not going to make a david suiter joke here, because you're assuring us that david souter was a conservative. that didn't turn out so well. i like to tease you about that. thank you for joining us. >> have faith. it will work. >> laura: all right. we'll have faith. i trust, but verify. next on the rundown, new obama ad doubles counsel on harry reid's wild charge that mitt romney doesn't pay taxes. we're going to debate it. later on, gas prices are on the rise all across the country. could the pain at the pump doom president obama's reelection [ male announcer ] if it wasn't for a little thing called the computer, we might still be making mix tapes. find this. pause this. play this. eject this. write this. it's like the days before esurance express lane™. you had to find a bunch of documents just to get a car insurance quote. now express lane finds your driving info with just one click, saving time to be nostalgic about the days before express lane. thank you, insurance for the modern world. esurance. now backed by allstate. click or call. morning because my back hurt so bad. the sleep number

i'm not going to make a david suiter joke here, because you're assuring us that david souter was a conservative. that didn't turn out so well. i like to tease you about that. thank you for joining us. >> have faith. it will work. >> laura: all right. we'll have faith. i trust, but verify. next on the rundown, new obama ad doubles counsel on harry reid's wild charge that mitt romney doesn't pay taxes. we're going to debate it. later on, gas prices are on the rise all across the country. could the pain at the pump doom president obama's reelection chances? coming up it's something you're born with. and inspires the things you choose to do. you do what you do... because it matters. at hp we don't just believe in the power of technology. we believe in the power of people when technology works for you. to dream. to create. to work. if you're going to do something. make it matter. >> laura: earlier this week, "the factor" debunked president obama's theory that mitt romney's plan would raise taxes on the middle class. and since that argument fizzled out, the obama campaign turned its attention back to

critique of your fair reading of the text rule from a former colleague of yours, retired justice david souter and he said he thought the fair reading model had a tenuous connection to reality. he said it's one thing to have the constitution say senators must be 30 years old but that there are these broad guarantees in the bill of rights like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, equal protection of the law that the application has to evolve over time and that otherwise the constitution cannot fit the modern age. it doesn' have to evolve over time. if it was up to the courts to make it evolve over time there would not have been a provision for amendment. it contains a provision of amendment precisely because the framers understood that they may find some provisions in the future are not good and additional provisions are needed. look, what the constitution does those provisions that guarantee individual rights, it takes certain matters out ofhe background rule of democracy which is the majority rules. now there are exceptions to that. and most of them are in the bill of rights. the majority

should point out that both of the vacancies that the nominees for filling, the vacancy left by david souter and john paul stevens these or not a game changers. the ideological balance of the supreme court with the vacancies being filled by president obama is not going to change. but one of these days it will. eventually all nine of the current ones will lead but i had no idea what order it went but at a certain point, the justice that holds the central position on the court letting that nomination beah game changer it happened in 1987 when lewis powell retired and he was the swing justice of his day and we had the titanic battle that in many respects is going on today. it never ended and it informs how we think that the nomination process. and so i just -- what happened in the last couple of years i just personally hate to think about the is going to happen when that occurs. i would say another thing about the still resonating battle. and again, recent political events i think should make us kind of rethink what seems to be the take away from the battle which was a definition of the politic

out that both of the vacancies that these two nominees were filling, a say can is si left by david souter and john paul stevens, these were not game changers. those two vacancies being filled was not going to change. but one of these days it will. who's going to leave the court, and in what order? i mean, eventually all nine of the current ones will leave, but i have no idea in this what order or when. but at a certain point a justice who holds a central position on the court, letting that nomination be a game changer, that will happen. it happened in 1987 when louis powell retired, and he was the swing justice of his day. and we had the bork battle, the titanic battle that in many respects is till going on today. -- still going on today. it really never ended, and it kind of informs how we think about the nomination process so i just, given what's happened in the last couple years, i personally hate to think about the conflagration that's going to occur when that vacancy occurs. i'll just say another word about the still-resonating bork battle. and, again, recent political events should