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It just a sloppy white house? i think they knew what they were doing, i think they did it badly. i think it is effective. it is clear that republicans are blocking the job spending bill and the republicans have no tolerance and they have been playing politics all long, damning president obama at every turn, and then president obama says, you know what, this is political, he is in campaign mode, and what do i hear? well, that terrible, president obama, he is playing politics. here is the thing. their strategy was off. the reason you go to the events and get go media in the districts is to make sure that swing state is in your corner on election day. with was the front cover of the cincinnati newspaper today? obama s plan will not build the bridge, a huge headline. that doesn t help them. 70 he done going to the well with the some develop ready project thing, remember $860 billion would be mostly for ....
That we have already spent, i do think some of the payroll tax cuts idea are good ideas. but he has got to make them simple. herman cain made a good point earlier that if it takes more time and money for your accountant to figure out how to make the credits work than the credits are worth, you are not going to do it. clayton: this is how washington works, right? maybe down the line we can get some revision of this tax code and make it simpler. right now people can t wait. the president made that point during the speech that 14 months to election not enough time. anyway, politically toxic in this jobs speech are the things that maybe republicans can t vote against. right? the underemployed right now. can they really go out there and vote against an underemployed benefit forrics months unemployed. veterans pay. the payroll tax. is there anything in there? can they pull pieces out of it and say i m not voting for that? they ought to go out very quickly and very publicly embrace the pi ....
Failure to lead. cokie roberts over on abc had a novel idea. she blames not bush but the constitution. and the problem that we have here is the constitution of the united states of america which actually does require people to come together from different perspectives rather than whether it s divided government or not. we have divided branches of government under any circumstances. there you go. one other sound bite of note and we re not going to play it because it s dirty is kristina romer was on that live hbo show where she says the country is pretty darned and then she used a word that starts with an f. so and she was part of the president s original team and she says we re pretty f ed. kristina romer is one of the original writers of the bailout. don t worry if you give us $860 billion, unemployment won t go above 8%. how did that work out? ....
The board on the economy. shovel ready it s not shovel ready it s going to help the economy. we are going to spend $860 billion on the stimulus. it s going to juice unemployment. we will get people back to work. they see lies across the board. this just happens to be a really graphic one. bill: this was one i can t think of anything that really competes with this. calling reporters into your office, setting them up and then just come on. no. no. i think you know, he had coffee and lattes for them and trying to ply them with starbucks? isn t that what happened? it s all very odd. bill: let s get to this rasmussen poll. put up the screen. these are likely republican primary voters, all right? people who are going to make the decisions in the early months of 2012. so romney surges at 33%. michele bachmann does very well at 19%. herman cain moves up a few points 10%. ....
The board on the economy. shovel ready it s not shovel ready it s going to help the economy. we are going to spend $860 billion on the stimulus. it s going to juice unemployment. we will get people back to work. they see lies across the board. this just happens to be a really graphic one. bill: this was one i can t think of anything that really competes with this. calling reporters into your office, setting them up and then just come on. no. no. i think you know, he had coffee and lattes for them and trying to ply them with starbucks? isn t that what happened? it s all very odd. bill: let s get to this rasmussen poll. put up the screen. these are likely republican primary voters, all right? people who are going to make the decisions in the early months of 2012. so romney surges at 33%. michele bachmann does very well at 19%. herman cain moves up a few points 10%. ....