you re absolutely right. i love the way you set it up. yeah, you want to choose now, you want to choose to stay mucked and mired in the reality of 8.3 hearse-plus unemployment or actually do what s necessary and that is to reform the way the government spends it money, reform the taxes, reform the way this government responds to small and private businesses out there? but, michael, you know, that s really nice rhetoric, as well, but here s the problem. congressman ryan s numbers don t add up. governor romney s solutions don t add up. the notion you ll solve the serious economic challenges this country face, and by the way, be brutally honest and face facts, that these are problems that president obama inherited. he inherited an economy that wasn t at the cliff, it had fallen off the cliff. wait a second. millions of jobs. in the process he s helped stabilize the economy. the notion that somehow governor romney s policies or congressman
president obama is the worst president we ve had on security. the very worst. the worst president on the economy and said president obama wants higher gas prices. this is part of the villification and demonnizing you hear on glenn beck, rush limbaugh, sean hannity s show and articulating that for the same audience, the tea party fanatics who determine the republican primary. in the speech, wasn t he drawing a parallel what europe and the world faced back in 1940, and what we as a country face and what the world is looking at right now and said he was a nice guy but kind of made a mistake and it was very clear to me he was talking about adolf hitler and making the comparison to the president of the united states. is it a deliberate strategy in your opinion? it s a deliberate strategy to villify the president, we have
congressman, good to have you with us tonight. you heard this kind of rhetoric before, do you believe rick santorum needs to be held accountable and give us a name who he was talking about in europe back in the 40s and comparing it to president obama? of course but rick santorum says things like that almost every day. in the same speech he said that president obama s the worst press denident we ve had on sec, the worst president on economy and president obama wants higher gas prices. this is part of the villification and demonnizing of the president you hear on glen beck, rush limbaugh, on sean hannity s show and he s articulating that for the same audience, the tea party fanatics who end up determining the republican republicprimary. wasn t he drawing a parallel what europe and the world faced in 1940 and what we as a country
every day in the very same speech, ed, he said that president obama is the worst president we ve had on security. the very worst. the worst president on the economy and said president obama wants higher gas prices. this is part of the villification and demonnizing you hear on glenn beck, rush limbaugh, sean hannity s show and articulating that for the same audience, the tea party fanatics who determine the republican primary. in the speech, wasn t he drawing a parallel what europe and the world faced back in 1940, and what we as a country face and what the world is looking at right now and said he was a nice guy but kind of made a mistake and it was very clear to me he was talking about adolf hitler and making the comparison to the president of the united states. is it a deliberate strategy in your opinion? it s a deliberate strategy to villify the president, we have
washington lawmakers really are. could you imagine telling your boss, you don t think you re going to get anything done until november. people who don t have a job can t wait a couple of months. people who don t have a home can t wait a couple of months. washington politicians say they know we re in an economic crisis but they don t stay in town to do anything about it. they need to start acting like it s an emergency and get their butts back to washington, take a week off and then get back. you don t need the whole month. this is why congress has a whopping 21% approval rating in the latest nbc news wall street journal poll. joining me now is congressman alan grayson. good to have you with us tonight. i think it s easy to see the frustration in the numbers of the american people. what should the congress do? i mean all these bills that you guys have passed over in the house, what should the senate do, and does the circumstances that this country face right now call for different mea