before he took office? a lot of people that is not the case. economy growing slowly. hiring is very weak. housing starts are not that great. manufacturing, all these economic indicators saying things are not going very well. people are hurting. i think that s a big difference here. the president promised so many big things and people are just so far down right now. and that s the problem. nina, if he doesn t have the american people behind him, doesn t have his democratic voters behind him and if he loses the u.s. senate, i think it will be a long two years it s already been a long one year. but, i look, be careful about reading this poll though because it does not rebound to republican s benefit it does not say oh these people wish they had voted for mitt romney. what it shows is deep dissatisfaction with president obama as a president. he is a fabulous candidate. and all that hope and change stuff, he was speaking of promises, remember about the seas rising in his first i
off than i was years ago before he took office? a lot of people that is not the case. economy growing slowly. hiring is very weak. housing starts are not that great. manufacturing, all these economic indicators saying things are not going very well. people are hurting. i think that s a big difference here. the president promised so many big things and people are just so far down right now. and that s the problem. nina, if he doesn t have the american people behind him, doesn t have his democratic voters behind him and if he loses the u.s. senate, i think it will be a long two years it s already been a long one year. but, i look, be careful about reading this poll though because it does not rebound to republican s benefit it does not say oh these people wish they had voted for mitt romney. what it shows is deep dissatisfaction with president obama as a president. he is a fabulous candidate. and all that hope and change stuff, he was speaking of promises, remember about the s
start to finish. john boehner by contrast acknowledged that his understanding of leadership is to sort of manage whatever his people want to do as cbs s bob schieffer put it. gingrich had the power to speak for his side. boehner, by contrast, is worried that were he to make a deal, he would lose his job and he s right to be worried. tea party members routinely explain that they lie awake worrying that boehner will compromise and cut a deal on obama care, the budget or immigration. the tea party is quite unlike gingrich s contract with america movement from the 1990s. grassroots movement made up by people who have a deep, deep dissatisfaction with where the united states has gone over the past several decades, cultur culturally, socially and economically and crucially for this degeneration they blame both parties.
before the break or during the break, one of the things you have to feel on a day like today is the inadequacy of the criminal legal system to come to a satisfactory result. i can understand as a lawyer and a person who teaches the law of evidence how a jury came to a verdict of not guilty. as we were saying, my guess is in that jury room, they probably felt something other than george zimmerman isn t guilty. they may have felt the prosecution didn t prove its case and those are different quite different statements. there s a deep dissatisfaction if you think as a legal matter, sterile matter maybe the jury did its job but not a satisfactory result given what happened that night. of course a trial that began with an ill considered knock knock joke is being very kind to don west, as the attorney. when you begin a profound trial about profound matters making a joke about the jurors and at the jurors expense, but even setting that aside, to begin a
saw the collapse of the economy beginning, of course, with the subprime crisis, so that really added fuel to the fire, made people angry, afraid, concerned, feeling like the country they lived in was not the country they grew up in, and so on. i think those are the two main things. the debate that began about gun control i think clearly has raised the temperature even more. sirchlts we just spent the last half hour talking about the fabric of american society being woven even tighter in times of tragedy, but can t forget about the fact that there are certain pockets about deep dissatisfaction. we re on two tracks in this country. if you go back to when i was a