fear, but also, he went after the new york times. a sort of thinned skin moment for the president. matt lewis, are you impressed by the honesty of your liberal friends? i hope they keep it up. i think president obama has finally gotten things right. the 2010 election was a reputeuation of ideology. the republicans ran on a lot of things, making them permanent, which this does not do. president obama wants to be re-elected. what i would advise him to do is ignore the left, the base and journalists, reporters out there who said the same thing about bill clinton before he was re-elected. i m not going to allow someone to say journalists should be ignored. jew julie, pretty negative reaction. the white house was so unhappy about this. they pushed back on that so hard like we ve never seen before at the white house with a barrage of e-mails, trying to show there
extending the rnd tax credit, which is something that, frankly, has been a bipartisan idea. i m pretty sure president bush proposed that. passed it, actually. passed it, right. and what you saw in that speech, norah, was the president trying to lay the groundwork to say, republicans are just the party of no, and they re going to say no, even to these moderate ideas that i m putting forthrig right now, before the midterm election. he s trying to box them in a little bit. we talk about all these unmotivated democratic voters out there that are struggling, out of wok. if they hear the president talking about an extension of r&d tax credits, do you think that s going to send them to the polls? norah, they extend r&d tax credits every year. making them permanent that s been talked about since i ve been in this business, but they roll them over every year, anyway, so they re always there. you ve got to get people spending if you want companies to feel comfortable enough to