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How we see the role of a president in helping to bring about bipartisanship? you talk about the congress, you say there is a role for the president. >> a chapter in there about the presidency one way the reagan presidency was successful and the carter presidency was not, was the degree to which they had really good congressional outreach. the president is not the head of government. he's the head of one of three branches and the other branch, congress, is the one that has most of the power. the president to be successful, has to be able to not just summon and lecture members of congress, he ha...

Powerful but i have no desire for fame and power anymore. >> the old guard is back for at least a visit. that was president george w. bush speaking in crawford, texas with the hoover institution. meanwhile as we mentioned, dick cheney was back in washington yesterday all while speculation flies about condoleezza rice as a potential vp choice for governor romney. let's just say bush's self-described axis of awesome is back together again. david corn, it is interesting, we have not seen much from the bushies of late. we have heard periodic peeps from jeb bush and george h.w. bush, who now seems ...

solutions, many of them, lie with congress. but there are causes and there are many of them. a simple answer would be the cleanest, the most convenient, out of control deficits or stimulus. it's barack obama or george w. bush, but it's not that simple, not that satisfying. one cause however does stand out amongst many. cheap and ample credit. for years the ability of almost every working american to access more credit than they should have been able to, masked the underlying fact that lower and middle class incomes were not rising. people felt and in many cases actually were wealthie...

solutions and right now, those solutions, many of them, lie with congress. but there are causes and there are many of them. a simple answer would be the cleanest, the most convenient, out of control deficits or stimulus. it's barack obama or george w. bush, but it's not that simple, not that satisfying. one cause however does stand out amongst many. cheap and ample credit. for years the ability of almost every working american to access more credit than they should have been able to, masked the underlying fact that lower and middle class incomes were not rising. people felt and in ma...

this week we learned that the measure of consumer confidence fell for the fourth month in a row to its lowest levels since january. you may disagree with why it's down. but, again, the customer who in this case is the american consumer is always right when it comes to the economy. why? because if americans are worried about the economy, they delay making important purchases and a perceived economic slowdown can easily become a reality. okay. so it's happening. but why? well, probably the biggest reason is this -- jobs. 20 straight months of job growth. yes. but over the last five mon...