well, you look like a nice person to me. hope you do well. it s up to the voters, not to me. thanks for coming on hardball. up next, is president obama about to run a bush-style swift vote campaign against his opponent, thinking it s romney? is this getting real personal, real soon. yes. politico reports they re taking a page from george w. bush s 2004 playbook zeroing in on mitt romney hoping to land a knockout punch before the fight gets going. this is hardball and that s hardball, on msnbc. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. [ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com.
Hold on to their seats. the six democrats reportedly feel good about theirs chances in two of those six races. two others seem to have a good chance. two are safe. how do you call it right now, this time of night? early in the evening before we get the returns in? well, i ll tell you, chris, the intangible here in the turnout. i mean, there s been no question about it, it s at presidential levels in some of these districts. enthusiasm is high. i just talked to john ush. bach, the state nart who says we got the ground game. they got the money. nobody knows how to read the presidential turnout. they re excited but not sure what that means. the crown jewel race to watch is in suburban milwaukee. alberta darling, the close correspondent to governor scott walker is the one that was very instrumental in writing the collective, anti-collective bargaining bill, and sandy pash
Public still have the power to control the outcome of the policy. the other biggest problem for the president is that to take the path that you re suggesting would be tantamount to them saying, look, we got it wrong. as recently as six months ago when we put deficit reduction in the middle of this, didn t make the argument six months or 18 months ago, we were just wrong. has we, the policy we pursued for 18 months was the wrong policy. more than that. 2 1/2 years was the prong policy and you know how hard it is for any politician, particularly for a president, to say, guys i was wrong. i need to start from scratch and do something that is in total contradiction to the way i ve governed so far. i just think it s going to be very hard to get barack obama to admit that. well, it might be hard to get him to admit it, but if he realizes his presidency is at stake he might change his mind and i think he could argue at least attempt to argue that they learn from the first stimulus that it d
People want to be changed, including at the high end, including hedge fund, including the corporate jets and all the stuff that the president talks about in the abstract, twin it up with whatever projects you re talking about. they have the computer processing power over at the white house. let them do it and show exactly how much revenue we re losing, that could be used to create the jobs you re talking about. let me go to the new york times and coincides with what i m saying i believe. it says today, obama should start making the case that it is foolish to focus the nation s attention solely on debt where the republicans want it and instead shift every available resource towards jobs. if he becomes passionate about the government s ability to think creatively about a turnaround he might spur lawmakers to join with him if he stays locked into the arid agenda of the republicans the economy will remain as dormant at his speech on monday which is just where he rivals hope it
Old days. put it in their face and say go ahead vote against it. you foe what they do? they vote for it. that s what usually happens, or pay for it. john heilemann, that s how you get a public works through. not gee wheeze, let s have a stimulus, or means nothing. you show them the school bridge going over in september. how about we make it safe. just a thought. what s your thought. chris, first of all, the white house and the president s re-election committee clearly understand they need to do something politically on the jobs front and they tr in fact at the moment as howard indicated trying to figure what that should be s they are going to have 134 sort of the jobs package they ll roll out at some point in the next couple of weebs maybe early in september. i think the problem with your proposal, and this is something i said on the show on friday, waiting for halloween or what? what are they waiting for? this is not a president this is this is not a put it in their faces kind