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libya speech which you yes, he did. shows you how focused they are. all right. chris, errol, favorite new york channel i think i can say. thank you. thank you both. coming up, will police and firefighters turn on republicans in the latest republican union dispute? we ll see. you re watching hardball only on msnbc. we re with you when you re saving for your dreams. [ woman ] when you want a bank that travels with you. with you when you re ready for the next move. [ male announcer ] now that wells fargo and wachovia have come together, what s in it for you? unprecedented strength, the stability of the leading community bank in the nation and with 12,000 atms and thousands of branches, we re with you in more ways and places than ever before. with you when you want the most from your bank. [ male announcer ] wells fargo. together we ll go far.
win from this but one thing he clearly did is make unions relevant again in politics. you have seen a decline in the union share in the elect rat. unions struggled. there s a split but they got behind this. you know, they got behind wisconsin, they got behind ohio and people said, wait a minute. unions are standing up. unions have political power again. scott walker, he may ultimately in labor s role look at scott walker to deserve credit for reawakening unions and political power. fascinating law of unintended consequences in politics. and errol, a little bit more of what the president said in response of this and trying to talk about everything else on his plate. take a listen. i know there s a lot going on in the world right now, and so, the news is captured by the images of the middle east and what s happening, the tragedy to our friends in japan. and i m focused on those issues but you should know that keeping the economy going and making
this is what mitt romney said. i m afraid some people are conditioned to unemployment rates above 8%. it should be 4% or less. the idea to celebrate 8.8%, i m glad for the progress but, my goodness, we have a lot of people out of work. this seems like he s trying to frame it, he wanting to be the economy republican candidate, errol and trying to frame it. you can t blame him for trying to move the gold post. i would love it, 4% in effect is zero unemployment with 4% from naturally moving to new jobs or coming in and out of the work force but, you know, that s not going to sell it for him. you know? i mean, if he s going to be the candidate of pain, he risks being where democrats have been in so many campaigns. sort of saying there are two americas and one america s not being attended to. it never works for republicans. chris, i was going to say, mitt romney, he can t afford for the economy, he wants to be the economy candidate. yes, and if the economy
bad months on the economy. it was a slower growth of jobs. and the bush campaign accused the democrats of rooting against the economy. and that was an effective pushback. oh, sure, yeah. they re very much at risk of having that turned back on them this year. chris is absolutely right. you can t cheer for high unemployment. it is hard enough to explain it if it happens and the reality is it leads the republicans i think to some secondary targets like getting control of the senate back and not a small thing and is in fact within their reach on some level. democrats have to defend a lot of seats and also got sort of a prairie brush fire going on in the mid western states at the state levels and turf taf to defend there, too. going at the president with better job numbers, no way. well,er rol.