some on the far left and a few on the left hate him is fine with me. it shows he s done his job. let me put the question to you in the campaign context. if you judge it based on paul s list in 5 years, 10 years, 20 years people have a different perspective, but based on paul s list, the stimulus program is controversy on the campaign trail in rural america and red state america where democrats who won mccain and bush districts are in trouble. the health care bill is a net negative in this campaign year right now. does that effect his rating? you know, i like rahm. i ve worked with him a lot over the years. interacted with him when he was in the clinton white house. i think he s a professional. i think he s a very capable political operative. i have to say, and this is no shot at rahm, it s just my honest analysis, i think this was really a mismatch of his skill set. i think he ll be better on his own as a candidate, or an officeholder. i thought he really shined in congress. it was
i just assumed i just assumed there was a departments of cures. a minister of cures. a secretary of cures, but there isn t. but there isn t. that s a good position. secretary of cures. it s a thankless job. right, high failure rate. so we ve kind of at the same time, we want to get involved, we appoint ourselves then, in the sense that our actions reflect a burning interest in getting this done and finding all avenues to solutions. it strikes you, it s lonely, even for a guy had has the financial resources and probably has a good family support, and you re looking for help and you re alone. he has certain expectations. he s 29 years old. he s famous, he s had a lot of success. he started to get a twitch on his pinkie finger. that s how it started, john.
earlier than had been granted to anybody during a campaign. bart, you touch on that in the piece. you talk about the explosion of the number of the groups the government is tracking from 2009, throughout the year, 2009, how the number doubled then tripled. the department of homeland security as fran noted has been aware of this from some time. this is a report from 2009. prominent anti-government conspiracy theorists incorporated aspects of an impending economic collapse to intensify fear and paranoia among like minded individuals and attract recruits during times of economic uncertainty. the economy playing in that part from the report of the department of homeland security. you take it a step further and personalize it to a degree. the resir jans is seen among government and academic experts as a reaction to the shifts in american politics that allowed a black man with a foreign sounding name and muslim-born father to reach the white house. fair to say, a lot of this is about race?
would have been a better promise. that s what barack obama is doing. i think he s making great strides in changing people s lives for the better. again, who cares about washington. let s not be so seflf-indulgent and self-reverential. let s make a difference in people s lives. back in the day when he was running the inaugural committee in 1993 i went to rahm, rahm can be a little brusque. i say, look, we need tickets to give the kids east of the river to come to the inaugural. i said, kids, rahm said absolutely. tonight, kids with pre-existing conditions will be able to keep their health care because of rahm emanuel. thank you, rahm, god bless you. everybody take a time out. our panel is going to stay with us. we have a lot more to come including the test paul laid out. getting things done. when we come back, we ll give you the top news stories today. a blunt warning for the congress from michael bloomberg of new york. he says congress needs to do more. we ll go through the record
might spur the economy is the election itself. there seems to be so much uncertainty what is going to happen over the next couple of months and what is going to happen ultimately in washington. there s so many business people that say we re not really sure what the rules are going to be, what is going to happen. i think there is some sense that if we could get some certainty around the elections. if the republicans win, what does that mean? if the democrats win, what does that mean? i think just that, just knowing the answer may actually spur people to make investments they otherwise might be holding back on. on the same token, sam stein, we get jobs numbers in about two hours and 15 minutes from now that likely will not be good. they will not be good. fair to say, sam? they are going to stink. thank you for putting it that way. how did the white house brace for that? how do they spin it, if they can? i mean, this is the toughest spin there is, right? to say what we have do