bret: on the domestic policy, the talk of a gas tax for infrastructure. we have heard this many times before, and it is sort of like lucy and the football and charlie brown. it s always pulled away because republicans never want to go down that road. breaking up big banks, that s another big hurdle for congress. i don t think this is probably the right moment for him to further stuff the legislative pipeline. he s got a couple big lumps in there now. in the form of health insurance reform and tax reform. central to his agenda before he starts talking about anything like this. you look at the gas tax, it s hugely controversial. it falls hardest on the people who have the least and they are struggling to get to jobs every day and so on. it s a regressive tax by its nature. breaking up the banks, that might be a good idea depending on how it was done but it s hard
bret: on the domestic policy, the talk of a gas tax for infrastructure. we have heard this many times before, and it is sort of like lucy and the football and charlie brown. it s always pulled away because republicans never want to go down that road. breaking up big banks, that s another big hurdle for congress. i don t think this is probably the right moment for him to further stuff the legislative pipeline. he s got a couple big lumps in there now. in the form of health insurance reform and tax reform. central to his agenda before he starts talking about anything like this. you look at the gas tax, it s hugely controversial. it falls hardest on the people who have the least and they are struggling to get to jobs every day and so on. it s a regressive tax by its nature. breaking up the banks, that might be a good idea depending on how it was done but it s hard