in my view, it s not so much winning or losing or even the people themselves. it s about something bigger than that. these debates are an opportunity for each of us to describe the pathway forward for america that we would choose. playing off the enthusiastic crowd. romney had lines for the base. may even tested out a few zingers we might hear wednesday night. this is a home to focus on the family which is committed to preserving the foundation of america. we have to get the pipe laine from canada if i have to build it myself. it will kill america s entrepreneurship. that s the first time, by the way, romney talked about card check on the stump since the primaries. others call it the employee free choice act. it was a priority four years
reforms. but it seems like they believe that mitt romney would be terrible for them. so why would they i think that s right. well, because they re miffed by the choice of north carolina, they re also upset because they don t think obama fought hard enough for card check. they helped get him elected in 2008, they thought they were going to get that in return, they didn t. megyn: he made recess appointments to the nlrb and then filled those spots with people who are extremely pro-union. how much more does the union want? there might be something else going on here. this is my theory, and i think the scott walker saga says a lot about this. the unions put all this money to unseat scott walker megyn: in wisconsin. and they failed. what does that tell you? for the working man s union, not the public sector employee unions but the we make things unions, i don t think their membership is behind barack obama to the extent that previous democratic candidates had their support at all
democratic party to use its power to help them, which was giving them the power to go out and organize the democrats were missing in action. and when you break that trust, i mean, you ve got to remember, labor stepped up in a way you ve never seen before. they put all their chips to say we ll put in place and people who are going to help us. we ll help you with what we got and when that didn t happen you leave labor now without a strategy going forward and then there comes the attack. that s the problem. card check was going to give i should be clear here, you re talking about the democratic party here. i mean, before the main obstacle to employ free choice act, more than anything, were senate votes. i mean take it away from just obama. talking about democrats in the senate. you agree or disagree? look, i appreciate we should have passed, i totally agree to that. but i think we should step back
things that they can dust and pull off the shelf in another administration with card check and cap and trade, it makes a very frightening for small business owners in today s economic climate. neil: you heard the president and those who defend him say he was taken way out of context, that he wasn t bashing guys like you. that he was saying in this country, in the infrastructure of this country and thanks to all the things we have and there is a support network for guys like you in this country, guys like you did what you did in this country. what do you say to that? well, what i say to that is the entrepreneurs are the ones that provide the jobs for the taxpayers. i m not taking anything away from our employees. our employees are the greatest asset that we have. but the entrepreneur in business, we support other businesses. we pay the taxes that paved the
so apoplectic in wisconsin. they saw the salaries dwindle. just you don t think it s politics and union due goes to democratic politicians and walker trying to break the connection? andrea: you want to talk about it? juan: glad to. dana: he tried to balance a budget. it worked. andrea: we could have a discussion about the revolving door. eric: they deserve to make money as they can. but the dues are mandatory. dana: right. eric: members don t a choice. dana: that is why card check, legislation to make it mandatory failed. good thing. eric: leftist running the main stream media devoting time to mitt romney s faith. but is that a legitimate issue? i don t recall the same scal pescalpel used on barack obama. t