cut regulation, cut spending. again, straight out of the 1994 handbook. yeah. it s as if nobody realizes this is 2012 and we face challenges that we have never faced before as a country. who develops a way to speak to talk about the economy and the future that connects the people that gives them a vision of a better tomorrow, if we do this, if we do that and the other. do you think either do? nobody has done it yet. i wrote months ago, whoever does that is going to win this election. these two campaigns are trying to move the dial here and there. trying to create a narrative to work with voters. i was talking to the obama people. they are hostage to events outside their control. you can move the dial, then next week, greece falls apart. people are discounting greece falling apart.
and for now at this point, kyra, i ve reached out to some republicans here on the hill. they re reserving judgement at this point. as you know, they frequently talk about wanting smaller government, so on its face this seems like something that they could go along with but, of course, they re waiting right now to see what president obama says. they re waiting to see if there are any catches. you see president obama here doing a couple of things. he s trying to make good on some promises about having more efficient government. he s also trying to put congress in a spot where he says, i m proposing something that you should be on board with and sort of trying to force republicans to say, yes, to that. so watch for what the president is going to say at 11:20, kyra, and then watch to see how republicans react. if they say, yes, this is something we can go along with or if they say is shuffling the deck chairs. we will take the president live at 11 clock a.m. eastern hour. thank
forward. let me ask you about politics. herman cain, big political story on the republican side of the ledger, he is out now. what impact does he have on this race? i don t know. i ll let mr. priebus discuss that. i don t pretend to be an expert on republican politics. do you think his position in the race has ultimately helped the president s cause? there was a kind of reality television aspect to certainly his speech yesterday. i don t in the aspect of his campaign. you know, my general view is, i don t think the republican debates have helped the republican the republican cause because it has elevated ideas i don t think the american people embrace. i don t think the american people think that the way forward is to continue to give tax breaks to the people at the very top. , shift the burden to the middle class and people are trying to become middle class, cut regulation on wall street and let them write their own rules as they were doing before the crisis. and that
forward. let me ask you about politics. herman cain, big political story on the republican side of the ledger, he is out now. what impact does he have on this race? i don t know. i ll let mr. priebus discuss that. i don t pretend to be an expert on republican politics. do you think his position in the race has ultimately helped the president s cause? there was a kind of reality television aspect to certainly his speech yesterday. i don t in the aspect of his campaign. you know, my general view is, i don t think the republican debates have helped the republican the republican cause because it has elevated ideas i don t think the american people embrace. i don t think the american people think that the way forward is to continue to give tax breaks to the people at the very top. , shift the burden to the middle class and people are trying to become middle class, cut regulation on wall street and let them write their own rules as they were doing before the crisis. and that
strategy. you re just moving the chairs around on the deck. if you talk to andrew leverus of dow, he will tell you that government cannot be passive in this climate, in this global economy, because other governments certainly are not. let me ask you the point go ahead. the point that was being made before i think is so important. that we do have to listen to business. one of the ideas in this book is a jobs race to the top, where we say to the states, listen to your businesses. you know, cut regulation where you can. and we ll feed money to those that are working. on the other hand, we need through competition. and let the states invent on their own, by listening to business, where they re close to it. on the other hand, we have to watch business. i think the president is right to say jobs should be tied to tax credits should be tied to job creation, not to just any cut in the costs for business. quickly, what do the two of you think about our effort to get the money