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so he is running counter to conventional wisdom in that people still blame president bush for the current state of the economy. so i dont think its -- while it looks like a great number, republicans ought to be jumping in and saying, oh, wow, the president is really vulnerable. when you look inside the numbers, he is less vulnerable than that would imply. >> lets take a look at some of the notable republicans who have said no just for the month of may for running for the gop election. ...

>> the bush white house at the time, the outgoing white house did support the idea. mitt romney has deep roots in michigan, also supported it. how did it play for you, richard? >> basically, the u.s. government ended up being the lender of last resort and taking the place of a failed banking system. the banking system, they could have picked up the slack. if you look at the t.a.r.p. overall, most of the money from the t.a.r.p., absent aig, has been now paid back with profits and with interest. b...

lot of individual reasons for individual candidates who decided not to run. but i have to tell you, you look at those figures and you say, whoa, the president is in for a rough reelection ride. should he get it simply because if that many people think the economy is poor, that certainly is not going to help him at the voting booth. but heres the rub. they dont actually blame president obama for the economy. 55% of americans blame george bush. just 30% blame president obama. so he is ru...

Barbecue in new hampshire. right now hes making his case in iowa. we can see live pictures there of the event. michele bachmann says she will plan a june announcement in waterloo, iowa, town she was born. deep roots there. seven generations of bachmanns. tim pawlenty is spending his first week on the trail as an official presidential campaign. stu rothenberg is editor of the rothenberg political report and a columnist for "roll call." and vin weber is co-chair of the pawlenty campaign and both j...

The establishment candidate, and the progressive candidate, george w. bush managed to fill all three. but in this race, there is really an opening for a social -- a true social conservative. i think it is very possible there are going to be a lot of pressure and attention on rick perry from texas as soon as he finishes his legislative session here in about a week or so in texas. hes very strong with tea party and social conservatives. and i think that they like him a lot. hes the longest serving...

This is where we really are. forget about the politics. and then open up the fundamental questions. how should we as a people want to distribute the cost of paying for agreed public goods and services, and which public goods and services do we want? you know, i think its interesting to me how weve kind of gone off a track. and this has long, deep roots and a long time track, but i think the decision to go to iraq as a preemptive war was a monumentally important concept changer, so that when we d...

And so it would be good if the president would say to people, this is where we really are. forget about the politics. and then open up the fundamental questions. how should we as a people want to distribute the cost of paying for agreed public goods and services, and which public goods and services do we want? you know, i think its interesting to me how weve kind of gone off a track. and this has long, deep roots and a long time track, but i think the decision to go to iraq as a preemptive war w...

Drawn to include some other groups who have deep roots in the muslim-american community, around the nation, rather than individual horror stories or scare stories? >> you know, ooum sorry to use that expression of terror, terror stories or scare stories. we had two individuals. one whose son is currently incarcerated, awaiting trial for killing an american serviceman and wounding another at a recruiting station in little rock, arkansas. this man testified about how his son grew up as an all-amer...

Something. the administration behind closed doors, who would they like to see manage the transition? would they like to see mubarak go and suleiman and the prime minister, then basically mubaraks people manage it or do they want a whole new transition to come in, which i guess would leave the results wide open. >> i think there are concerns about security would make the preferred option, im told, suleiman but they know that he is not popular. he doesnt have deep roots. he comes from the intellig...

Law. while at harvard, her article presidential administration was named the years top scholarly article on administration law and regulatory practice. president obama nominated miss kagan to be solicitor general january 52009 and im proud our nations first female solicitor general has deep roots in massachusetts. if official shelling the third zap shes argued several high profile cases before the court and was recently victorious in the holder vs. humanitarian law project case which held prohib...