republican congress for saying no to everything this guy wants them to do. then when they get nothing done because they say no to every little thing, this little can of spam, they say no to that, they won t get this puny little jobs bill and they fire for firemen and teachers, and then you come on and say how come no new jobs? because your party gets its rocks off by saying no to everything. but the reality is, you want to throw the spam out there, but you re not worried about how much the spam costs. you re not worried about how folks are going to digest that. you can t complain about no jobs if the guy tries to get a jobs bill week after week and you say no. jobs economists have
i asked the question of several white house officials, why not go big, why not go bolder, why not do something that transforms this conversation. even if you lose, you made the debate. here s the answer i got back. we know more about the way american people view this economy than anyone else running for that reelection or anyone else covering this campaign. that s the answer i got from the white house. they re going to stand pat where they are. there is a debate going on. the consensus is stay where we are, blame congress, because most americans according to their focus groups believe most america republicans run office. it s a risk. what do they say what s their big picture for the future, though? that they don t have. i m told they have time for that. that s when he lays out the next four years. their assumption is in the slum bering summer months even
but congress refuses to act. tell congress we can t wait. so what s the point of that ad? i think it answers the criticism that they don t have a plan. the hand wringing that really has gone on inside the democratic party, it s not about bain, it s not about bill clinton, it s about this charge of what is the president running on. and this is at least a piece of it right now which also puts a little bit of the onus do they expect to get back to work? they expect to get their target back and going after they have a big construction workers job program that people can imagine, see it out there like lincoln did, the enter state, the continental railroad. something big and grand. this idea that we re going to pay off people so they don t get bored.
badger congress, this president need to stay away from congress. when he gets closer to congress, he gets less popular, not more popular. that s what they saw happening in august in the debt ceiling crisis. let s talk about money, because you would think the incumbent of the president of the united states would be able to raise more money. what are we seeing now? john kerry outraised george w. bush. we just had this happen years ago. let s get the structural thing down on this part of the money. it s a joint district fund, okay? they ve been able to raise this money jointly. remember, they re $134 million of money donated to people not named mitt romney. those people jump into this huge pot of $70,000 or more, and they re jumping in.