for these seats, if they re tired of mitch mcconnell for having the title majority leader, the way to do that is take away the majority. if chuck schumer really believed in this, wouldn t he be banging that drum every day? the democrats don t want you to know they have a huge rift in their party not only from the people who believe elizabeth warren, but to the fact, you know, they re in denial about the fact they without the senate they could do nothing. they could get donald trump out of the white house, but on judges and everything else, legislation, they would be paralyzed. the thing is these priorities, the devotion of time, resources, debate discussion, all of that gets lost in the fact they are quibbling over whether or not they want to reorder society with a huge revolution or stabilize the country with normalcy with joe biden. it s going to become more tense as we get closer to iowa.
out any debate discussion of trump s foreign policy and what might be a success. so this bluster might be self defeating. i have another question for peter. quickly, elise, for you, even if the decision was made by national security team, it still happened under his watch, so he takes credit for it. yes, that s true. i mean, look, the president is the commander in chief. a lot of other times, you know, a lot of aides are given a little more credit. but a lot of these decisions are made by the commander in chief. so president trump and all his like to have glory is it able to claim those successes by himself. but certainly it s a whole cabinet, a whole national security team that helps him make these decisions. i think it s a very fair point about droning out. because a lot of times he steps on his own message. exactly. instead tweeting about other things. peter, recent cnn poll found more than 6 in 10 americans
single digits instead of double digits, low single digits instead of high single digits, things like that. gene, you wrote about mitt romney s debate discussion on fema. i m going to guess you were probably against what mitt said. yeah, i thought it was a stupid thing to say, joe. frankly, i suspect if you were to bring governor romney on the program right now and ask him about what he said. all of the responsibilities to the states, i think he d say, well, of course i didn t mean that and that s what he always says when confronted with something dumb he said in the past. but there is a larger point about the sort of shell game in my opinion the romney/ryan budget plays, which is just to say take the federal government s unfunded liabilities and send them down to the states and go like that
the south. and on super tuesday you re looking at states like texas and oklahoma and virginia and tennessee. it s very difficult for a mormon to win those votes. i said on this program from the beginning of this pass that the rally was about going out there and say, look at me, i m a christian, i m not a mormon, vote for me. it s working very well for rick. jim moore, dave weigel, harold cook. stay with us. we re staying on the debate. we have a little bit more coming up. stay with us. we re right back. he had $800 billion worth of stimulus in the first round of stimulus. it created zero jobs. half of zero jobs is going to be zero jobs. the candidates were going after the president inside the debate. outside, tea partyers are still looking for a birth certificate. i thought we were done with that garbage. our debate discussion continues. on jobs, the president sent
oklahoma and virginia and tennessee. it s very difficult for a mormon to win those votes. i said on this program from the beginning of this pass that the rally was about going out there and say, look at me, i m a christian, i m not a mormon, vote for me. it s working very well for rick. jim moore, dave weigel, harold cook. stay with us. we re staying on the debate. we have a little bit more coming up. stay with us. we re right back. he had $800 billion worth of stimulus in the first round of stimulus. it created zero jobs. half of zero jobs is going to be zero jobs. the candidates were going after the president inside the debate. outside, tea partyers are still looking for a birth certificate. i thought we were done with that garbage. our debate discussion continues. on jobs, the president sent his bill to congress. tonight, one staffer is admitting republicans will block