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but we start tonight with with the democratic party stands for
in this week's congressional elections democrats lost all across the country
backs him that all politics is local is dead
that might have been true that idea seventies
but with cable television the thing that in nearly every home now
all politics is national
when i asked her for telling gracie yesterday on msnbc
why he lost his history
he pointed to a national phenomenon
there was a national disaster i won by four points in two thousand eight i went back and
checked to see what happens to all the democrats who won by ten points or less
in the house in two thousand eight and believe me ten points a lot more than four points
what i found is that of the twenty four democrats who want by ten points or less than two thousand
eight only one of them one this year
one out of twenty four
it didn't matter it didn't matter at all
whether you were in florida whirl high or colorado if you are democrat u_s_ swept out
by the same force
so that leaves the obvious question
was their failure in the national message of the democrats
congressman grayson think so
they've got their strategy in fact what about our strategy our strategy for two years been
appeasement
delivery guts
i think democrats want to see a fighting leadership they want to see a fighting president
that sounds exactly right to me
there's another theory though
but the republican message won the day and that they now have been
three or four bureau scriptvars
uh... the uh... potholes usually rejected revive the american people they want
there's less and less than one hundred
dreamers
dream
five acres of mandates
tied into client
go for a small shops with
but what's weird is that when the country clearly and loudly voted for the democrats
in two thousand eight
john bainer did not step out of the way
in fact he made his mission to block the way in every conceivable that
so when the country vote for democrats it means nothing
but what it was a republicans that apparently specific huge political meeting
the neighboring nabobs of mediocrity in the washington medium sure will agree
in fact present almost asked if he or john bainer was in charge there
i think the over warming message
that i hear from the voters is that we want everybody to act responsibly in washington
uh... we want you to work harder
so i that consensus
uh... we want you to focus
completely on jobs in the economy employing i think that there's no doubt that as i reflect
on the results of the election
uh... it
underscores for me lead i've got to do a better job
i'd just like nobody else in washington us
mr president ask if you are being warned or cherry spencer selling a concession speech
here's how i would've answered
that's a fair question sister apologist at their house let me tell you something
john bainer represents fifty district in ohio
i'd and the president of the united states
on definitely incharge
make no mistake about it
next question
but both in our angry seemed to have a fair point issues are decide on a macro level these
days
so on that level we know what the republican messages
lower taxes less government everyone knows
whether they deliver not you know where they claim to stay
now one of the democrats stand for
i mean if it made it if they had
through another minute
but what's really about the republic primi is that if forces democrats who take the opposite
stand
which they don't want to do
who want to tell voters that they're in favor of higher taxes for bigger government so the
democrats have been running from this fight for at least thirty years
the ever occur to them but they should go or not offense
how about you lay out any gender back just on the issues
but i mentioned all what you stand for
you're not gonna be surprised to find out
that i have some suggestions
look is just as simple as a republican platform it actually represents progress of ideology
and it's something all americans can get behind
too simple place on the platform opportunity and responsibility
democrats stand for opportunity because they want everyone to have a fair chance
they don't want equality of results
but they definitely want everyone to have a shot so for example democrats want to invest
in a better education system so they can go into logan west virginia
has just left a good chance as a kid growing up on the upper west side of manhattan
responsibilities something to all americans
it's conservatives and liberals can relate to as well
it so the democrats do after the children the republican party
make a mess by cutting taxes for the ridge blowing up the deficit and crashing economy
the democrats are always brought in to fix the problems there that adults in the room
bill clinton clean up after reagan in the first bush
davis huge deficits
and a democratic president left us with a giant
star plots
though of course the second bush screwed that up
analysts but let us have another huge deficit
we hired a body clean that up economic collapse
also created under bush
and we got impatiently couldn't cleaned up quickly enough
with democrats always when obtaining the more responsible rap
vision of the state credit for it
and other outside of these planks other having advantage of being true
is that they are also hard to counter
onerepublic say were against opportunity and we hate responsibility
while that might be accurate
is not really a winning political slogan
but all of this requires leaders who are willing to make their case instant up for their beliefs
not leaders who bought below the first time ever republicans running for it
when republican anyone of tax cuts for the top two percent the correct answer from the
democrats should be we have a party of responsibility and it would be wildly irresponsible to give
the richest people in the country and other tax cut while our deficit is exploding
there they go again
republicans the party of fiscal recklessness we won't stand for
but i was not hard was it they can do that
and the democrats don't wake up to the reality of politics is national
and if you can't win without a court hearing
easily identifiable message
this week will only the beginning of their troubles