you end up as irritated with the protesters as the conditions they are protesting. even if they take up a collection for you. who is the 99% in this story? is it the truck driver who can t get through? the protesters whose families expected them to go to college? the ones who love to have a union job with the benefits and a little time off? many people want to reduce what s happening in this country to a class warfare argument. but it is too complicated for that. like for instance this woman. she is in the new town and country magazine which is my favorite source for what the 1% are thinking. i met her and talked with her about her support of the occupy wall street movement here in new york. then i went to town and country today and saw her there. now she received a million dollar trust fund for her 21st birthday. and now she is working to give it all away and to help other trust funders do the same. she is the 1%, but she is out there on the barricades with her
too many years and their philosophy is simple. we re better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules. that was president obama delivering an address on the economy in kansas this week. the white house said it wasn t a campaign speech, but sounded like the blueprint for the 2012 reelection bid. wall street journal columnist kim strassel joins us with more. kim, is this the president s campaign strategy and what should we make about it? yeah, paul, the battle lines are drawn. here is the problem if you re president obama. you can t run on the economy because it s in the tank. you can t necessarily run on accomplishments, if anything they ve made things worse, you ride to the bad times and run a pure class warfare argument and tap into american resentment and bash on wealthy americans and organizations and the government the size that obama prefers can make sure everyone gets their quote, fair share.
too many years and their philosophy is simple. we re better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules. that was president obama delivering an address on the economy in kansas this week. the white house said it wasn t a campaign speech, but sounded like the blueprint for the 2012 reelection bid. wall street journal columnist kim strassel joins us with more. kim, is this the president s campaign strategy and what should we make about it? yeah, paul, the battle lines are drawn. here is the problem if you re president obama. you can t run on the economy because it s in the tank. you can t necessarily run on accomplishments, if anything they ve made things worse, you ride to the bad times and run a pure class warfare argument and tap into american resentment and bash on wealthy americans and organizations and the government the size that obama prefers can make sure everyone gets their quote, fair share.
this country as a candidate and he promised to be the great uniter, david, he was going to be different e was going to bring everyone together. he was going to listen to the debt commission, do you remember that? guess what? now he s going out around america and i just heard david talk about it as the great divider. jon: is that more of the class warfare argument that republicans are trying to make. reporter: it is and it s a powerful argument for republicans to make along the lines of governor christie and others who said that the president hasn t really taken the reigns. the response from the administration was that was the basis of the negotiations with speaker boehner and they fell apart they charge because speaker boehner couldn t get his caucus to embrace the negotiations that were going on. it s still powerful when you talk about a president that can t get it across a finish line. on the flip side democrats have effectively pushed this taxing millionaires and billion heirs and
providing enough documentation and accuses the republicans. this is one of increasing testy showdowns who say the republicans are conducting tough oversight investigations and the white house seeing witch hunts, not legitimate inquiries. jess, any sign the white house will give? you were here when they first got the request and they said no, we ve given you enough. any threat a subpoena will say, here, more dock plns? reporter: no signs it will. the white house has maintains they through their agencies turns over more than 70,000 pages of documents and that the white house itself has turned over 900 pages and as you have said, they have made it clear there s an important precedent to be protects, the president s advice from his advisers in the white house has to be protected. early on the white house said that the republicans were exaggerating this, this one lone gun bad, a pretty good program. now the chief of staff is having an independent review inside the white house.