two arguments going into the fall, and we know this already. mitt romney will say the president made it worse. the president will say saved us from a depression. things would have been so much worse if i had not been the things i have done. and if we go back to the bush policies. exactly. so those are the two arguments. or a ryan like budget, which favors the wealthy even more. it seems to me, david, that the president and this has nothing to do with ideology or economics. just looking at the argument which is harder to prove in a courtroom or on a campaign trail, things could have been worse. unmitigated damages. you just don t see it. very hard to run against an unknown. right. nevertheless, he is running against a particular person. this is a person worth a quarter of a billion dollars, whose job whose wealth is not
personalities. and there s a fine line to walk. you don t want to be a part you don t want to dominate the story, but you must if you re going head-to-head with world figures you must be a big figure. and his ability to tell stories of our time as a big figure but very rarely venture cross the line where he became the story, incredible to perform at that level for so long. and steve rattner, you got your start in journalism. and worked at t the times for long time. explain how, and obviously we have heard from david that, often print and broadcast journalism are two different things, and sometimes the print journalists have looked down on tv broadcasters over the past 40, 50 years. but talk about how 60 minutes was unique when it started and moved through the 1970s. print journalists might put their nose up in the air, but in
going to hurt the republican party and mitt romney a lot? the supreme court. the supreme court is increasingly seen as politicized. the citizens united case seen as politics with black robes to inject more and more and more free money into the political process. a supreme court under-romney will be seen as something that you referenced the business of the so-called war on women is not seen as a happy future for women. there are many cases coming down the pike that i don t think play to the majority opinion in this country, and the fear is if this supreme court becomes more and more dominant right wing and politicized the way it is, and the way the case that we re seeing now, i think that plays very well to barack obama. but, david, i think the new york times cbs poll showed the week of the oral arguments that 67% of americans wanted the supreme court to overturn the individual mandate. that doesn t seem to me that if they overturn the individual mandate that the president will
and, mark, you were saying before that the romney team feels confident that there s not going to be a turn-around in the economy, and that they re going to be able to run on a very simple argument in the fall, which peggy noonan about a year ago sort of previewed, which is he s made things worse. and he hasn t put us on a path to make anything better will be their argument, and the president will make a counterargument. there s a lot of economic structural reasons why the recovery is not really taking off. we re not going backwards but it s not really taking off. there s a political question, though, which is some of the uncertainty, some of the economic drag, is caused by the fact that washington doesn t have its act together. businesses worried about the health care law, worried about regulation, the budget deaf fits, and it s going to be a big problem for whoever is the president come november to try and make the numbers better. i don t think the fundamentals will think fixed, giv
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