laissez-faire. let the car companies die. romney s just, the heck with helping companies in trouble, and bringing it down to the lowest level, the person who can t meet their mortgage because they re underwater. let them die too, let them rent, you know. this callousness, it seems to make the president look more like a human being. obama has done executive orders or executive actions throughout his presidency, about 97 over the course of his presidency. but he s choosing to emphasize it now for a particular reason, he wants to be out there. he wants to seem like the one who has some solutions to offer. and coming out with these, i think he s going to announce one a week. tomorrow we re going to get one about hiring veterans. that makes him seem like someone who s doing proactive work, whereas like you said, if you re just willing to let the market take us where it wants, that s not exactly presidential. that s more ideological. yeah, you don t need a president to say, don t do
don t you think? and finally, we ve all heard gop candidate michele bachmann s campaign promise to, quote, end obamacare, but does anyone know what her alternative plan might be? well, here she is, and ebenezer scrooge said something very much like this before the three ghosts arrive on christmas eve. let s listen to bachmann. we will always have people in this country, through hardship, through no fault of their own, who won t be able to afford health care. that s just the way it is. but usually what we ve had are charitable organizations or hospitals who have enough left over so that they can pick up the cost for the indigent who can t afford it. once obamacare is gone, this is what we have to do. this is what we have sounds great, doesn t it? anyway, compare this to mitt romney who stuck it to rick perry the other day for texas having a million uninsured children. three cheers for what romney said there. up next, president obama s had enough of a congress that just says no
can do to encourage housing. one is, don t try and stop the foreclosure process. let it run its course and hit the bottom, allow investors to buy homes, put renters in them, fix the homes up and let it turn around and come back up. the obama administration has slow-walked the foreclosure processes that have long existed, and as a result, we still have a foreclosure overhang. john heilemann, i have to go through a riff right now, because i think you and i cover so as sam does this incredible portrayal by the republicans by themselves. first of all, they look hot and horny for executions out in that reagan library debate. then they talk about letting the guy on the gurney die because he doesn t have health insurance. then they mock the gay soldier. then you ve got bachmann out there saying, if you don t have health insurance, fine, you can go to the poorhouse. and now this guy is saying, hip, hip, hooray for foreclosures! this party has become a cartoon of ebenezer scrooge or worse
couldn t be weaker in terms of the economy. and they want to make him, what, are they trying to save this presidency, these guys? chris, there s nothing better than being on television with you when you re using the word horny. let s start with that. okay, randy, better word. stick with horny. we ll stick with what you ve got. it is extraordinary, and they do seem to be giving the president a gift on a lot of these issues. i m more struck, in some ways, by how, in romney s case in particular, how totally ignorant he seems to be about the actual public policy implications of what it would mean to let the foreclosure crisis play out in a natural way. he is supposed to be the guy who has private sector experience, he s supposed to understand the private sector better than barack obama. that s supposed to be the contrast that favors him, that he actually understands how things happen and what he likes to call the real economy. there aren t very many housing experts or economic ex
street occupiers. let me finish tonight with an easy way to understand the evils on wall street. we start with rick perry gone birther. david corn s an msnbc political analyst and mother jones washington bureau chief. and we re also joined by wayne slater. thank you, gentlemen, for joining us. here s a portion of that parade interview, parade magazine interview that ran this sunday, it s catching a lot of attention. in a q&a in the article, lynn sheer asks the governor some questions. governor, do you believe that president barack obama was born in the united states? perry responded, i have no reason to think otherwise. that s not a definitive, yes, i believe he rick perry, well, i don t have a definitive answer, because he s never seen my birth certificate. question, but you ve seen his. perry, i don t know, have i? question, you don t believe what s been released? perry, i don t know. i had dinner with donald trump the other night.