emergency we had with the hurricane. everyone jumps in to help. you have an economic emergency and the republicans don t jump in to help. that s a big problem. a year ago today he came out with the america s jobs act. it was multiple republican id ideas. 7 0% of that was tax breaks. 30% was structure and argue about the 10% that no one is for. domestic auto industry not be the same sort of thing. these are fundamental things. the first economist to come out that this was good policy was mccain s republican economist who said, 1.7 million jobs, okay, 1.7 and maybe 2% on gdp. it went no where in the house. and that was paul ryan. but explain that. that to me is also interesting because why is it the case, you know, neera, you articulated a
the house in 2010. jab obama relentlessly in 2011, win the white house and the senate 2012. this was a meeting held in private. now these people come out with crocodile tears about the failures where they are of this administration claiming oh, they were in there rooting for him. yeah, i had no idea that mitt romney was so enthusiastic about the obama campaign. i mean, he actually had paragraph after paragraph in his speech about all the hope and the possibility there. he also said he hoped he succeeded as president. the thing is, he s kind of painting himself as one of these folks who had just arrived at the convention. i was with obama last time. what are we to make of the claim of altruism here? here s a guy who was running for president the minute he lost last time, hoping obama would fail. and by the way, publicly hoping so going out and revving his troops up, raising money, doing the whole thing. well, something else. when barack obama decided he was going to go for it,
by the way, publicly hoping. raising money, doing the whole thing. something else. when barack obama decided he was going to go for it, a very tough moment, to save the domestic auto industry, what did the son of the former head of american motors write in the new york times ? obama s wrong, let detroit go bankrupt. this was a guy who was using his greatest name recognition strength to try to take president obama down. that was in april of so, let s watch some of the facts from last night. we re going to try to take onion skin off this. on wednesday night, paul ryan was criticized for a massive number of distortions in his speech some of them revised history leaving out the fact that the republican party spent the past three and a half years refusing any opportunity to compromise with president obama. for example, ryan put the blame for the country s credit downgrade squarely on the shoulders of president obama. let s listen. it began with a perfect aaa
know the obama record and the whole united states is going to be at stake in november? you are absolutely right. but unemployment is steadily going down. not the rate that any of us wanted to see. but do wewant to go back to the policies that put the economy in close to the great depression that we saw how many decades ago debbie, you know, they say unemployment it s a scam. that people are leaving the job force. that s why unemployment went down to 8.1%, because people are giving up in this economy. eric: those numbers stay the same, whatever president s there or not. the president has created 4.2 million jobs since he has been president in the last 26 months. in michigan, where i come from, they have created 200,000 jobs in a domestic auto industry that almost collapsed that president bush and president obama helped.
domestic auto industry. one of the things that surprised me was how much mitt romney kept defending let detroit go bankrupt two years ago and never talked about the fact isn t it great that the domestic auto industry is doing better and 200,000 jobs added and all three companies are starting to run three shifts. barack obama is working to h help all americans get jobs. he is working, the economy is going in the right direction. he is talking a lot more positively than mitt romney is. we will see if it is enough for americans still looking for a job in november. thank you both so much for joining us. we appreciate your insight today. thank you. thanks, health. heather. a new video of a heated new jersey town hall. governor chris christie getting into it with a rutgers university law student. always a bad student. the student outraged over new education plans shouting the governor down and then this