the risk of them not offering anything back to the president as far as aid is concerned for deal with this crisis? there s a serious risk here. one is that republicans are not reacting with appropriate urgency to a massive political problem. they lost the hispanic vote by 40 points. that s a political crisis. but there is also a real moral risk of looking lying you re blaming children, displaced children, instead of the administration and coyotes. republicans really need to balance this. but we do have a divided government. and obama s not particularly good at appealing to either republicans in congress who have been alienated in many negotiations, but also not been good at that, and many democrats in congress don t think he s particularly good at dealing with the congress. it s not a strength. he s not a linden johnson figure when it comes to influencing a difficult congressional environment. i have to say one thing, eric
but why are some republicans still simmering about it. this is the daily rundown. a busy day here. let s get right to my first read of the morning. and we stick to the topic at happened which is immigration. last time president obama talked about immigration in texas, he was in campaign mode and he was on offense. he was attacking the republicans in congress for stalling immigration reform. all the stuff they asked for, we ve done. they said we needed to triple the border patrol. we re now they say will we need to quadruple the border patrol or they will want a hire fence. maybe they will need a moat, maybe they want alley gators in t alley gators in the moat. they will never be satisfied. he ll be in texas again today. this time it s for fund raisers.
called the plan, quote, a tax bill that only a deficit-spending politician who has spent his career in washington, d.c. could love. republicans up for re-election in kansas like tom sloan are disavowing the tax cuts. he voted against the plan and now supports either freezing the cuts or restoring the taxes to pre-brownback levels. and the tension has spilled across state lines to spark jabs from fellow republicans. a few weeks ago, oklahoma state treasurer said sometimes ideological experiments bring unintended consequences. it serves as a reminder for the rest of us. and in n from then nebraska neb proel something we can t want to rush into. paul davis is seizing on the separation among some republicans. a recent poll showed davis with
with you a lot more than i do president obama. what raised the ire of some is that they felt your political operation targeted them for you of change your style. try to reach out to the moderate republicans? i ve supported moderate republicans. they re ones that opposed me on different things, and so i don t i don t know i ll support those who have opposed me in different matters. could you support any of the republicans let me ask you this. can you support anybody that voted against your tax plan? any of the republicans that voted against your tax plans? absolutely. absolutely. what we re trying to do is get things moving forward near here in the state we ve had a lot of job loss. we ve lost private sector jobs last decade in this state. lost them. now we have a gain of 52,000. we re moving it in the right
woub. work. what do you say to some of the criticism? you have a former chairman of the republican party, it does seem like your party is divided. the only way you lose in a state like kansas is if moderate republicans leave you for the democrat. well, i think what i say to them is, look, you have to choice. an election cycle produces a choice. i m a reagan style republican, my opponent is a obama style democrat who supports tax increases, who supports obamacare, his running mate was the obama compaco-chairman. so you have a choice. it s about a choice between these two. when you give that choice to ka kansas republicans, they will say i don t agree with you on everything, but i sure agree