reporter, erin pike and deputy political he hadder for the washington post, ann corn. you heard robert gibbs attacking mitt romney on the economy. will this attack stick? obviously the romney campaign is going after the president on the economy, so it s the only thing they have to do. so whether it sticks or not, i don t know. but they have to try something. they can t continue to move the fight to foreign policy. they have to fight back on the economy. you look at the romney campaign, ann, they continue attacking the president on the economy not moving quickly enough. how does the president s camp respond to those charges? it s tricky, because they say they want the economy to continue improving. they don t say that it s all been fixed. and certainly every time there s new jobs report, they use the same line. but their response is to look at what romney would do if he were elected. and to look at the previous administration. look at the past republican administration and look
his experience is, in downsizing and outsourcing jobs and bankrupting companies and walking away with a lot of money for himself. his economic ideas are the failed economic ideas that we tried for eight years. tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. and letting wall street go back to writing the rules all over again. that s the policies that got us into this mess. so your thought, your reaction to that? again, you know, we can talk about the demographics, the war on women. we can talk about the osama bin laden raid and the politics about that. the economy is going to be issue number one and it s got to improve for the president s prospects for re-election to improve. both sides have agreed this is going to be a duff fight. the economy is expected to improve. will the trend be strong enough? will employment be low enough for the president s prospects to get him over the top, to get the 270 electoral votes come november. many thanks for that joining me, we further this discussi
anyone surprised by that? we re going to be joined with details now by emily stevenson from reuters. good day to you, emily, thanks for being here. here s the question about the senate bill that just passed. how would it change the postal service overall? well you mentioned saturday mailth and that i think is one of the things that people are most curious about. the bill would allow the postal service to end saturday mail after two years. and basically the reason for that is the postal service says they don t have enough mail. they re not delivering enough mail to justify it. online and other processes. you can pay bills online. send birthday cards online. that s one of the main things. the bill also puts some restrictions in place to protect rural post offices, a lot of people who live in these rural communities are concerned about losing their post offices. it gives the postal service $11 billion that the postal service has sort of overpaid into a federal retirement account.