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Stimulus act. he had overwhelming control of both houses and could have brought it forward. president bush to his credit had two members of his cabinet assigned to get immigration reform passed. president obama did nothing of the kind. this political pandering is not the right thing to do. we need to move forward with legislation. >> maria teresa, 2011, look at the number, a record number of deportations. nearly 400,000 people. does that at all temper latino voter support for the president with ...

Brians got. he was playing at the top of his fwam. >> apologies. but in the stimulus act alone, it saved or created 325,000 jobs in education. so, you know, obviously, the federal government uses money to help states and municipalities hire teachers, hire firefighters, hire cops. im quite sure that mitt romney is aware of this fact. >> well, in addition to the fact that he was a governor, right? >> right! >> so the people who are recipients of these type of block grants that the stimulus was. an...

Cops over time, which they did, effectively. federal government has been pay ing for teachers, paying for firefighters, paying for cops directly and indirectly for decades now. do you think romneys going to be able to get away with that ignorance that the federal government has been funding these things? >> well, you know, theres two possibilities here. the one possibility is, as you put it, that hes ignorant or stupid, which i dont actually think that he is. i think that he is trying to willful...

And he didnt answer the question straight up but i think the evidence does mount. i dont even say that to impugn the good faith of the republican party. i can imagine a scenario in which you think that the president is such a disaster for the economy. right? you think hes so bad long term that a short term -- that contributing to the short-term demise of the economy is actually for the greater good of rescuing america from a second term of barack obama. but i think it becomes harder and harder a...

Deftly done opening monologue which is are the republicans intentionally tanking the economy? and he didnt answer the question straight up but i think the evidence does mount. i dont even say that to impugn the good faith of the republican party. i can imagine a scenario in which you think that the president is such a disaster for the economy. right? you think hes so bad long term that a short term -- that contributing to the short-term demise of the economy is actually for the greater good of r...

Deftly done opening monologue which is are the republicans intentionally tanking the economy? and he didnt answer the question straight up but i think the evidence does mount. i dont even say that to impugn the good faith of the republican party. i can imagine a scenario in which you think that the president is such a disaster for the economy. right? you think hes so bad long term that a short term -- that contributing to the short-term demise of the economy is actually for the greater good of r...

>> the economy has been the central focus of the romney campaign and fridays numbers offered the gop candidate further ammunition. the campaign saying today that voters trusted the world inventory largest economy to a man with no executive experience, president obama. the presidents people telling a different story, however. they say president obama saved the economy and put it on the right track. but one democratic knowledge today the president has not made great progress on entitlements. >> he...

>> chris: neither has the president. >> he had other things on his agenda more urgent. the stimulus act. the healthcare and dodd frank bill. all of those were important agenda items for him to deal with in his first two years in office. he recognized that entitlements is something to be dealt with. >> chris: you may not leak the romney plan but at least he has a plan on entitlements, the president does. >> if you want to say a plan that would viscerate medicare and turn into a private pro-am in ...

President george w. bush passed a stimulus act. what? republicans, a stimulus act? yes. george w. bush passed two stimulus acts. he did it in 2001 as well. reagan had a big act and so did george h.w. bush. that is the way you deal with recessions. its normal no matter what you hear on fox news or the crazy part of your radio. the political geniuses of the george w. bush administration decided to get money out into the economy, to pursue stimulus and get money out that merns would spentds, they d...

Which this is the greatest recession in the history of america short of the depression. if these guys would get out of the way. for example, had they passed our jobs bill it would have created 2 million more jobs. 2 million more jobs. these guys wouldnt even let us put back to work 400,000 teachers, firefighters and cops by a 0.5% tax on the first dollar after the first million you made. come on, man. >> you cant guarantee jobs. it was this administration that said you keep 8% unemployment if yo...