everything that i saw and some of us conservatives saw looking into his background before the election. he's a rigid ideologue, can turn on a dime. i'll give you an example of the tone-deafness. the president is still planning his weeklong vacation in martha's vineyard. his wife took a secret vacation to oregon. the rest of us struggling to make ends meet. he doesn't seem to have a plan to get us out of this, except more of the same. more qe3. it seems like he doesn't get it. >> he didn't. he's run out of ideas, because the liberal ideas he has pursued over the last 2 1/2 years haven't worked. you are right, unlike clinton he can't say something didn't work and i need to be more pragmatic and move to the center and do something different. this -- that speech monday was