Administration Aggression

" telling you the last few days about the White House attacks on Fox News the insurance industry and the US chamber of commerce. Today some historical perspective on the subject of administration aggression. From a man with first hand experience. Correspondent James Rosen explains."

" Over the last and -- the chamber. Alone spent nearly half a billion dollars on -- half a billion dollars."

" Fox News often. Operates almost -- did the research arm -- the communications arm of the Republican Party."

" Against its perceived opponents the Obama White House is unmistakably ratcheted up its rhetoric. Part of a plan some -- calculated to neuter and marginalize the president's critics today it -- senator Lamar Alexander Republican of Tennessee and one of the last Nixon White House officials still active in public life to the Senate floor where he issued a warning to mr. Obama not to create his own enemies list."

" Is a veteran of the Nixon White House can -- we've been down this road before and it won't end well. Enemies list only denigrates the presidency. And the republic itself."

" As an aid to the -- Bryce Harlow president Nixon's congressional liaison. Alexander wrote called -- saying it was the job of the president's staff to push all the merely important issues out of the White House to the president could deal with a handful of issues that are truly presidential."

" Mr. President here's my point. Let's push the street -- out of the White House and work together on the truly presidential issues."

" What -- communications director Anita Dunn told politico. In August we -- a fundamental decision that we needed to be more aggressive in both protecting our position and didn't -- our differences with those who were attacking us to be more aggressive in defining what the choices -- And in protecting and pushing forward our agenda and quote. As a veteran of the Carter White House Bob Beckel says the current White House's shift in tone is mostly standard stuff."

" I don't all of an administration that has not. Done everything they can to attack the opponents of their major initiatives if you think for a second that the bush White House -- organized labor. And considered them friends well you know -- also Asian land in New Jersey."

" But we would reach out to unions when that we thought that it was going to be helpful. To the conversation on free trade agreements there were some unions that supported. The President Bush a strong stance on free trade other unions or against it we knew that and that was okay. But we did try to destroy -- organizations in the process."

" Bob Beckel estimated the health care reform battle has about six weeks left to go and said that as in any political campaign the last stages of a legislative battle often see the protagonist becoming more aggressive pumping in more money. And sharpening their rhetoric what doesn't make sense to him -- the attacks on Fox News -- says his own polling over the last two years Brett. Has found that 50% of the viewership of this channel consists of independents and Democrats -- thinks he can."