a lot of confirmation issues with tom daschle in timothy geithner. they reacted viscerally, fuck no she was a complete bit during the campaign and worse. marshall at experience with white house level social planning and her closeness to the hillary clinton made a natural. obama's aides didn't see it that way. no one in a room spoke up to defend her, not legislative affairs specialist sean kennedy had to get marshall confirmed for the senate if she was nominated, not personnel director nick see hogan, not greg craig who along with senator richard blumenthal had been a study of bill clinton and hillary rodham when bill cook up his mother's fried chicken to serve guests in the vietnam war. and alignment with obama had been a major be trail during the campaign. it was less than they were against marshall than they wanted one of their infested people in the profile role. we should have our person said one senior white house aide familiar with discussions on marshall, it would have been the equivalent of the roles being reversed if hillary was president an

that's what was thrown at tom daschle at the time when he questioned if we were doing the right thinge now is colonel lawrence wilkerson, secretary of state to colin powell and professor at the college of willamette mary. i would like you to speak to a moral obligation to help the humanitarian crisis which is unfolding not only because of who isis is doing, but also because of the bombing that has taken place. sort this out for us. >> yes. i think we do -- let me say first, i just can't resist this, ed. you just had former vice president cheney talking about the state of the army. his figures aren't correct, but that's usual with dick, but he's talking about an army and for that matter marine corps, too, that if it's in bad shape, it's in bad shape because he virtually murdered it in iraq for a decade. i just can't get away without saying something about that. the humanitarian crisis -- >> it's interesting, colonel, how the cheneys are always the ones to come out and attack president obama. it's never republican leadership. it's almost as. he's on the assigned mission from the conserv

, he's blocked legislation more than twice as often as the majority majority leader bill frist, tom daschle, trent lott, bob dole and george mitchell did -- or i should add robert byrd, more than all of them did combined. but he hasn't just blocked republican amendments, not just those in the minority. he's blocked amendments from the majority party, his own party. since july of last year, we have had roll call votes on only 14 republican amendments and only eight democrat amendments. i have to tell you, if my party was in the majority and we ended up getting less votes than the party in the minority, i'd be pretty hot about it and i'd have some explaining to do to my constituents. indeed, the majority leader has allowed so few amendments that one of his fellow senate democrats, the junior senator from connecticut, recently told "politico" he said, i got more substance on the floor of the house of representatives in the minority than i have as a member of the senate majority. our colleagues in the house have sent over scores and scores of bills relating to job creation, taxes, health care,