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michael welcome back
happy new year
all right
os so for soft white leaving a bomb is a such bad shape right now to begin
well i catered i guess
my thinking what can it get much worse
la
you know there's been a series of miscalculations uh...
uh... on health care and other issues
zand clearly
he has you know is that one party touting his leadership abilities
poll numbers on democrats in congress
are also
very low and i think it's it's time to ask whether things have gone as well as
they could handle of the reasons i think it's a good time mister
there are some trade lines are beginning to pick up work
and uh... right now the conventional wisdom is that democrats and you feel
this way right
organically
and i remember is
all five
when bush was really really dipping in then
i heard tim russert at the time and and david broder talk about the narrative of
comeback
and i said on the program they'll be no come back together and have it
okay just yeah is like asking if the terrible team dramatic come by acidity
beside up right
usually great at opa my has the essentials that
that he could do a com that it's possible
with all that happened he still the most popular
alteration of the country if you look at the polls
another sign of that book fight quite interesting and curious with just hello
vulcan party continues to be
even though you've got this backlash against big government against the
democrats in control
uh... it's not redound to the republicans credit
look at the spectacle up the tea party movement hill repudiating even some of
the more radical right wing republicans like ron paul a libertarian
congressman
uh... so would a failed to capture
on a lot of the anger out there
and uh... uh you know will eliminate sketch out of my pc there are still the
possibility of some smart government if you think starting to work right
a little triangulation back toward the center ended
patches have you know of perhaps some kind of a healthcare bill of things
could help enormously this way uh... you know independent voters so
uh... i i uh... you know every situation everybody election history generous
birthday
but there are comparison i was in the republicans are trying to compare this
to you
uh... for example making you know ninety four or its being hit with a mirror
image of two thousand six missing we're going to crush them but i just don't see
that the comparison to that precise
all right wolf blitzer so now we have a fun by the conversation where we might
just be a little bit ***
i think so-called sentences of desert
disastrously
i think that's
exactly what got him into this mess the first place
i think the waiter actually get your groove back is to do what you did on the
campaign which is to
your case
and say hey look this is my side
this is the republican side you bought it for me to do this i did not want to
go ahead and do it
dismal some great political sense
yeah and i think if you look at what you doing out there on the stump now he's
been out of washington for a few days
of making the case on the stump for health care
and you know you see that happening now you see it happening elsewhere even
chris dodd has come out
that uh... your finance committee chairman saying look we're going to work
go ahead in
and push to our version of financial reform in the heck with the republicans
so you do see up pushed by a bomb and that their merck and the democrats to go
to make the case to the country
everyone recognizes that washington is frozen and dysfunction right now there's
absolutely no ability of the two parties to agree on anything
despite a few efforts at bipartisanship
so i think that's what you're going to be something out around the country
of for enough for their various
said uh... bills and and
a key initiatives it of course the democrats still of the vote so what
should i congratulate so thank you so so i think the
most important issue in the rest of this congress
which is actually financial
because health care reform looks like it's going to pass it's going to be this
but what i do to be a very poor performance version
and what do you know you
maybe day i'm wrong and maybe it's a great bill and maybe they'll improve on
maybe they won't but its
it looks like that's going to happen right
whether you like it or you don't
and i don't think that that's going to
it was that passes i don't see people in america listening to all came fantastic
nam nama democrat
a lot of the provisions are aiming to kick in front of four years from now so
how do you get that benefit so i don't think that's the real major issue in
terms of the elections in twenty ten are these finance reform because
that's where all bomber has a door
real decision
you know what undergo along the same path that failed before
so-called bipartisanship on a house republicans
so not support their banker friends which is of
walls there
okay
and on the water this thing down and not get real reform and everybody in the
country can sniff out that that is a appeasement of the bankers who donate to
the democrats as much as they
donate the republic
oregon say that's it we're gonna get this done enom actually in a fight for
the american people i think that is no absolute most essential thing and will
determine the rest of his first sarcastic right or wrong
i think that there's a lot to that look on health care apart all the oxygen out
of the room every congressman you talk to says it
birth federal form has been put on the back burner i think it's been a huge
mistake
as an obama and that's really hurt obama and the democrats because of the sense
that they are simply
catering to wall street not doing enough about it
uh... but that's one of the areas where you know that you could see
surge info bomber really pushes who for example of book for the you know for the
vocal rule which is a study of separating proprietary trading firm up
on the big banks that are federally guaranteed
on if he pushes for something that the you know appears to be a a a halfway
decent consumer financial products
agency
uh... then you still have the possibility could come back and another
thing you know that we haven't talked about
uh... it uh... national security oklahoma and the democrats may come out
looking uh... locais
by over the summer in the fall on the right now things are a mess
all you have the administration surely shelling over arenal how and where to
try a terrorist
but in fact things are going fairly well afghanistan pakistan right now in tokyo
i guess the point is uh... things have gone down so far its
hard to imagine they could get much worse for obama democrats
in fact if you look at that a lot of national security
the possibility of health care passing soon if you look at uh... the economy
police recovering to a point where unemployment might stay below ten
percent and then uh... i'm not sure it's quite as bad a route
for the democrats of everyone's that's
c i don't think in the quantities and discounts unsettled times on that's
pretty much because i think he's effectively triangular did that
but i don't think that that's a big win for model think that uh... progressives
or or the and well-educated topology became way of in our own spreading its
called bailed out of the president is more popular come november than with his
coat elder at the radar running obviously but still
but it would help margins in terms of the democrats uh... the credit for ages
rights is marginal because mean i don't think it's a minus for battle
in fact i i agree with you i think uh... pakistan has been probably his best
success out of any field
and and any issue
so yeah agree with you on that they'd i'd let me just finally come back to
finance reform one more time because i think
so far
he's yeah
president obama has they've got to the rahm emanuel strategy
where they think they're really cute in their clever
and they've been that the american people are not a catcher on but they can
make a deal for example of the drug companies where they give them the
subject of monopoly or weekend to go see the drugs within important drugs in and
a stem and for twelve years
andi think nobody's going to notes right and the data collected from you
makers money and then there is a lobbyist money to be the republicans but
we're going to age and we do notice if he tries out finance reform
it'll be that will be his waterloo
and and
and the reason i'm asking you what i'm asking you michael is
you get a sense that washington
they're beginning to understand that or are they going to make the same
inexact misfit
i think they're going to make this say mistakes but i don't
i disagree with you on one aspect of the night
there's no question it's natural for music image huge issue us think
you know as we discussed
on another show
healthcare it was a mistake because he should have focused on financial reform
that the task of entire presidency
but in a political
thank i don't see that as being a huge decisive issued for the simple reason
that it's just too arcane
mode that we don't understand
these issues as they are there too complicated driven is regulation
the nature of the consumer into a financial products
protection agency he don't want to get out of the week if not a big political
issue but i don't know i didn't get that sort of sport the icy obviously point
but
make here's how you fix that problem i think it's exceedingly simple you put
the burden back on the republicans you make it stronger those you could
possibly be
and then say if u boat against this bill you're voting with the bank now you are
the bankers are less the bank that's it
until it doesn't mean we can't
uh... i i agree and i think that again on that issue and others is where the
democrats still have an opportunity
because the fact is that the republicans
continue to stand for nothing
they don't have any plans you know they played bass
they brought together if you go through this meager fifteen billion dollar job
as bill
up what they continue to stand against any kind of the additional government
program to you know to spark the economy warren or really anything else they
continue really to be the party of no and that is clearly just not
calling it with the electorate
uh... even the tea party movement as i set cell again you don't have this
it's been said that this is where this is very very different from say nineteen
ninety four the republicans have been out of power forty one years in the
house
and they can simply say we're not them
you don't have that now you have a very fresh memory republican failure both in
the presidency and in the house representatives
and senate
and that's where the republicans are nearsighted and that's where the
democrats still have an opportunity
to reverse what you know is looking like it could be a wrap it doesn't have to
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michael version of pleasure as always thank you