republicans and right now it s a question mark, but if that individual is not strong, you could have a downward pressure on that individual congressman and that forces that person out. 25 seats will be tough for the gop to keep in an environment if message doesn t click, their momentum is not there, it could be very, very hard. i think they hold it right now, but they have to come with a good ac-game to keep the seats out of play. the nature of the 2010 primary led to candidates winning in districts that would elect people more moderate, it was a big election for amateur outsider politicians who are exciting in a wave like that and in a couple of years later, when they have not gotten as much done as you thought, they are weaker than maybe a more professional candidate would have been. i think the difficulty in comparing 2012 to 2010 is the mid term versus the presidential. what map does the president end
is doing you are saying to do, make the republicans cut the programs, social security, medicare, and medicaid, doing what you want the without your rhetoric? that message doesn t he should never have accepted the rhetoric of the debt ceiling in the first place. are you saying he is talking- talking about going back to the clinton era level of taxation. mark pen was advising this is what he is talking about. it is it is not about the policies. what is the message that american public is hearing? they are hearing he is for trillions in tax increases. going into the election with a
other side, i think that has broken down some of that trust here in washington. but the american people expect us to rebuild it. reporter: that message doesn t seem to have reached capitol hill where tempers, especially democratic tempers, are flaring. america no longer has a two-party system. one of our two parties has morphed into a kind of a cult. this is a colossal waste of time. what a sham. what a scam. reporter: with less than two weeks to go until the government runs out of money on august 2nd, the white house meetings and hope for an 11th hour deal continue. in the west wing and at the capitol, many are pinning their hopes on the gang of six. that bipartisan group of senators they hope will come up with a plan to cut the deficit by $4 trillion and raise the naon s credit limit. rob and peggy? the government is warning about the possibility of terrorism at the nation s utilities, including chemical plants and oil r rineries.
where we are right now. my husband and i have joked for year we were well beyond the hot dog and bean era of our lives. but it s starting to knock on our door and ring true we might be headed there again. i need you to answer this honestly. is this my new reality? bret: here is how the white house, the white house secretary robert gibbs responded to a lot of questions in the briefing today about that. the notion that people that supported us would be immune to that frustration when the president himself is frustrated i don t think is something that the president believed. bret: what about this? i think it s tough for the white house, because they can t come out and say the economy is getting much better, because until people feel like the economy is getting better, that message doesn t work for them. you see them fall back on the default message of empathy saying yeah, it s really bad. obama never answered her question at the town hall yesterday.
for. and deeply disappointed with where we are right now. my husband and i have joked for year we were well beyond the hot dog and bean era of our lives. but it s starting to knock on our door and ring true we might be headed there again. i need you to answer this honestly. is this my new reality? bret: here is how the white house, the white house secretary robert gibbs responded to a lot of questions in the briefing today about that. the notion that people that sported us would be immune to that frustration when the president himself is frustrated i don t think is something that the president believed. bret: what about this? i think it s tough for the white house, because they can t come out and say the economy is getting much better, because until people feel like the economy is getting better, that message doesn t work for them. you see them fall back on the default message of empathy saying yeah, it s really bad. obama never answered her question at the town hall