gibbs, might want to be dnc chairman. i talked to other officials saying you re interested in a cabinet secretary post if one opens. david axelrod says this is up to tim kaine, if he wants to serve another two years the president will have him. do you want it, are you going to stay on? my agreement with the president is i was going to do what he wants me to do, and what i know sitting here today is he wants me to continue in this spot and that s what i m going to do, with excitement, you know, traveling all around the country, going through the tsa lines like everybody else, going out and being the president s advocate, and promoter and it s a wonderful onandjob and i cont to do it. thank you. thanks. investigating the white house, congressman darrell issa tells us what he has in store, next. do what? it tastes too good to be fiber. you made it taste like chocolate. it has 35% of your daily value of fiber. do it again. turn it into something tasty. this guy s doing magic.
president not being afraid to be the chief executive of the american public asked him to be. he s not going to play mother may i with the republicans. he s going to govern but if the republicans are willing to work as they did at the end of that lame duck session i think we will see productive efforts in a number of ways. there will be disagreements, surely. that s part of the process, but there are many more areas where we can continue to agree and move forward. let s get a little specific on what he might do on jobs. he has a big state of the union address at the end of this month. can the american people expects a jobs plan in there? what is the president going to tell the american people at the end of january? i m going to let the president decide on when to announce that, ed. let me say in terms of working together, here s one. the president wants there to be earmark reform. you ll have congressman issa on, he s the head of the government reform committee in the house, probabl
you noted the president s accomplishments and a new gallup poll started 2010 at 53%, ended with 47% arevolver. despite the accomplishments you listed. you ve made your case but seems like the american people are still not buying it, sir. well, relatively if you look at the president s numbers compared to others in the mid terms his numbers are fine. if you look at the president s numbers compared to how folks look at members of congress or other elected officials, he s fine. it s a tough time, ed, and with the challenging economy, folks are going to be dissatisfied until they see things moving more dramatically the right way but the president s accomplishments have laid a foundation which we think we re already seeing start to work in improved economic signs and that s what it will take over the course of the next few months and i think we ll see it and the number also get better. you mentioned difficult economy, employment at 9.8%. yesterday in his internet and radio address let s
you guys we all know took a shellacking in november, dealing with being in the minority. john boehner will be sworn in as speaker this week and some of you including congressman cummings, i know you were upset about the tax deal the president cut with republicans in december. and there s some democrats wondering if you ll be triangulated like in 95. and then there s in poll from december. who do you have most confidence in? the public said 40% said republicans in congress. 35% said barack obama. only 15% said democrats in congress. congressman israel, you decided after the shellacking to take on the task of the democratic campaign chairman. other than that, mrs. lincoln, how else did you like the play? why did you take on this job and what is your strategy to pull the democrats back when it looks like you ve got a mountain to climb? there s no question it s an uphill battle. i love uphill battles. let me give you the landscape. we need 25 seats to take the house back. 14 seats curre
be some stim latiulative effect regard to the middle class tax cuts and the fica holiday, i think those things will have something and the president i think is betting on the economy being much better by the time 2012 comes around. i hope so. congressman when i was in hawaii covering the president, bill burton one of his staffers said among his reading list one of the books was role of a lifetime a biography of ronald reagan. does that send shivers up your spine as a democratic leader that maybe he s going to be triangleating and taking some of the reagan play book? no, not at all. i love history we ought to read as much as we can, that s fine t informs how we proceed. more to the point, democrats are united with this administration on those core values that i mentioned, strength in the economy, rebuilding the middle class, strengthening the middle class and reducing debt and deficit and i reject the premise that house democrats are