recognize them legal, lawful citizen not applied to aliens, legal or illegal. greta: i got to go to break. i guess i was right we i said you are not a man of few words. no. there are things that have to be said greta. greta: state senator, thank you. coming up steve moore woke up today and read something he calls scary. yes it is about the economy. it is your economy. find out what is terrifying steve moore. how is that blame bush strategy working for president obama? we know we have the numbers. dana perino is here to tell us what the numbers mean. plus, rush limbaugh is a pro at making friends he s wracking them up by the thousands. he tells you how he s doing it home of one of the coldest, longest nights on the planet. and asked frequent heartburn sufferers, like carl, to put prilosec otc s 24 hour heartburn protection to the test for two weeks.
nancy reagan took an enormous amount of criticism for her expensive taste in the 80s was a terrible recession going on there were a lot of marie antoinette to nancy reagan as you are hearing michelle antoinette now. hillary clinton started out very badly. even in the campaigner remember the whole i could have stayed home and baked cookies thing not that popular started at 57% when clinton took office. a few months later after travelgate she was at 47%. as whitewater dragged on for months and months and years and years she ended up into the 30s didn t rise up again until the lewinsky scandal and her popularity went up. laura bush was not that well-known when george w. bush became president. her ratings went up with george w. bush s after september 11th and stayed up in 2005 there were 65% and in 2007 when bush was just
absolutely in the base as far as ratings are concerned, she was in the mid 50s. greta: one of the most colorful and one of my favorites barbara bush, how were her numbers? rated well the whole time well liked first lady even at the end of the george h work bush s presidency when george h.w. bush s presidency, didn t get credit for winning the first gulf war her approval ratings stayed in the 60s. greta: does it make a difference what first lady obama s numbers are. i must admit i m fascinated. does it make a difference or impact as to whether they roll her out to help with the midterm campaigning? it does. when there was bad publicity after the spain trip one of the ways the white house pushed back was to say she remains extremely popular and candidates around the country want her to campaign for them,
because she is so, so popular. if her approval ratings were to continue to go done a little more, perhaps there would be fewer candidates wanting her to campaign and she would not be the democrats secret weapon or their biggest asset as we ve seen in some press accounts. greta: what i think is a mistake she relatively invincible. she doesn t do interviews. we to know more of laura bush, obviously a different time we had eight years of mrs. bush only a year and may have of mrs. obama we to know secretary of state clinton, we to know all the first ladies. she doesn t end view. she doesn t interview. she got in a little trouble in the campaign becoming proud of her country for the first name her adult life when her husband did well politically. she seemed a little gun shy after that she has embraced a universally approved issue which is nutrition and childhood obesity. on the other hand there s this
at the back of the republicans in this state and a lot of opposition to obamacare. bill: if i could i want to move to political strategy over the next three months. here is president obama monday night in atlanta. listen closely. i ll ask you about it. roll this: it s not like we re engaged in some heavy reflection. they have not come up with a single, solitary new idea to address the challenges of the american people. they don t have a single idea that is different from george bush s ideas. not one. bill: now we get into the whole theme of blaming bush. and i m assuming that inside the white house, they ve got numbers that show them that blame bush strategy works. does it? no. first of all they ve gotten number sisters from their own pollster, the berrenson group, in a memo last week in the from a democratic organization, in the front page, they say we got to use blame bush, but if you look at the null behind it, they say look, the warning is