brain trust panel. we were talking about the president. he s in asia right now. he has several stops, many of them historic that we know that s on the agenda so far. when we look at this next term of president obama, as he sees the growing obligations internationally as well as a continued and very important obligation here at home with the economy, what will we see him doing? the role of the secretary of state growing, perhaps, in this coming term. yeah, i think you re right. i think we are going to see our global influence grow. i mean, he has spent his first term really focusing on the things he was trying to get done at home. now he s got a little bit of latitude to be able to move us forward and build some really strong relationships, be it in asia, really figuring out how we re going to engage with china so we can with compete on an economic front. i think we ll see a lot more of this happening. i don t think his work economically in building allies around the world is going to
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party who went up against him after he trounced poor, old senator john mccain who is having a very bad time of it right now. this week the president and the two sides on capitol hill sat down to talk with some urgency about our fiscal future, and finding some places where maybe the spending isn t absolutely necessary. or maybe it isn t justified. at a time when we have 68,000 americans in afghanistan at the cost of $1 million per soldier per year. for two more years? at least? everybody is saying it s impossible that the politics can change the course of the war there. that people just don t care. i think people care. i think that democrats and republicans, even some of them in congress, care. i think this is a door that will open if anyone pushes on it in washington. and now might be the time. or at least now might be the time to find that out. we ll be right back.
not going to want it. so i don t know. i hate to say it, but i think we re going to have at least two more years of a very similar kind of situation. you re not being a wet blanket, but you re being damp. but let me follow up on that idea of rifle-shot legislation about very narrowly targeted stuff. that doesn t in a comprehensive way take on any of our big, complicated problems, but does pry off some of the stuff that we can get people to agree on. on the very big issue of the bush tax cuts, president obama wants those expiring tax rates broken into two parts. extend the bush tax rates for income under quarter million dollars and hold a separate debate, break it off, in terms of what happens on income higher than that. could that happen? it actually could. there s been an interesting thing going on within the republican party in the house the last couple days, particularly the last week since the election. there are a lot of members that are now saying, you know, we may be open to
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