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Is for those remaining nine weeks and really hit it hard. >> if i could just insert this. i think what stephens looking to do is wake their candidate up. so by labor day, hes back driving the car. am i right? >> let me just say one thing. >> stephens point is exactly right. what governor romney has to do is spell out what he would do differently. thats very, very important. its not good enough to say the other guys no good. people want to hear what he wants to do. >> thats true. now, he has a 57...

Cant coast in saying obama thats another good jobs vote for me. hes got to do more. what i would really start doing more is after the democratic convention. id come out with guns blazing the remaining nine weeks and really hit it hard. >> i think what stephens looking to do, meaning the board, the journalists, is wake their candidate up so that by labor day, hes back driving the car. am i right? >> let me just say one thing. >> stephens point is exactly right. what governor romney has to do is s...

Or kept on by virt of how it is we perform. why cant we do it in the world of teachers. i understand why we didnt set it up that way. why cant we evolve into that? >> let me answer stephens point initially. which is that many, theres about 30 states that allow collective bargaining for the public service. the other states that dont have just as bad, if not worse budget deficits. in terms of compensation, if you just look at pensions and benefits, youre not looking at total compensation. look wha...

Why cant we do that in the world of teachers? i understand why we didnt set it up that way, and it was useful to not do that. why cant we evolve into that? >> let me just answer stephens point initially. >> sure. >> which is that theres about 30 states that allow collective bargaining for the public service. the other states that dont have just as bad, if not worse, budget deficits. in terms of compensation, if it you just look at pensions and benefits, youre not looking at total compensation. l...

It didnt work very well then, i dont think its going to work now. i would like to see, by the way, one of the things i think the president could do to really help small business expansion is just say, were going to keep those bush tax cuts in 2011 in effect because small businesses are the ones that are impacted most by those tax cuts. >> to stephens point, do you think theres been a sift with this administration? because guys like stephen have been saying for some time, when youre looking to cr...

The "return to prosperity ". the president continues to juggle a long-term commitment to reduce our debt watt short-term commitment to spend, spend, spend. can you make sense of this for us? >> sounds pretty schizophrenic to me, christine. my view, we really have to start by getting this debt down and slowing the rate of borrowing. i think it risks another financial crisis. you know, the president wants all of these new initiatives to help small businesses. some of them have been tried before. t...

>> harold we did that for two years and it didnt work. >> we had a shutdown in 1995, bill clinton president, republicans coming off a big midterm victory, now that shut down did seem to kill some momentum for those congressional republicans. both parties today talking tough on the deficit. which side has the most to lose this time? >> well, theres no question that bill clinton outfoxed the republicans and reversed the momentum and went on to win re-election in part after the government shutdown....