sorry. no, he s got to tell them, look, we ve got obamacare. it s not perfect. it s working better every day. it protects you it will save you money. but if you elect a republican senate along with a republican house, that s going to go away. a lot of stuff is going to get repealed. you know, there s nothing i m going to be able to do for you. and i think it s going to be a more partisan state of the union speech than many are expecting for that reason. and that s an interesting point you make, because we know that right now there are four republican responses, roger. the official is coming from kra cathy mcmorris rodgers, the official response, but senator mike lee of utah is giving the tea party, and rand paul will give his own prerecorded address
numbers around. it isn t that other second term presidents haven t turned around in the past, bush did and president clinton did, but his are now the worst ever. if you re out there and you don t think anything of congress, you don t think washington works, you got obamacare, you don t know what the future is of that, and then if the economy is bad, it s hard for obama to assert a legacy that s very positive. it seems very hard right now, but there has been a lot of presidents that have low approval ratings, but the reality is he s still the president. we re in a situation where the president is not running for reelection and he s dealing with a lot of actors inside and outside of congress who will act on their own interests. so when they see cooperating with the president as something that might be in their interest, they re going to act and he s going to have opportunity to get things done. it s not impossible there could be, for example, immigration legislation to sign. his appr
numbers around. it isn t that other second term presidents haven t turned around in the past, bush did and president clinton did, but his are now the worst ever. if you re out there and you don t think anything of congress, you don t think washington works, you got obamacare, you don t know what the future is of that, and then if the economy is bad, it s hard for obama to assert a legacy that s very positive. it seems very hard right now, but there has been a lot of presidents that have low approval ratings, but the reality is he s still the president. we re in a situation where the president is not running for reelection and he s dealing with a lot of actors inside and outside of congress who will act on their own interests. so when they see cooperating with the president as something that might be in their interest, they re going to act and he s going to have opportunity to get things done. it s not impossible there could be, for example, immigration legislation to sign. his appr
intrusions upon their privacy. and obamacare, i don t think, is going to get more popular, frankly. i m not a believer in such a thing as a second term curse, but i believe it s a problem when your second term implements problems in the first. there are going to be new obamacare deadlines that we re coming up against regularly. if the story doesn t get better, not just the technology, but the story of whether people are losing their doctors, whether their out-of-pocket costs are going up, it s very interesting to see how he turns these numbers around. it isn t that other second term presidents haven t turned around in the past, bush did and president clinton did, but his are now the worst ever. if you re out there and you don t think anything of congress, you don t think washington works, you got obamacare, you don t know what the future is of that, and then
in a room filled with republicans and he said, you know, these guys are all trying to keep me from getting what i think is in the country s best interest done. the president says one thing that we can do is we can raise taxes on the most successful people in the country but in the next breath, he says we have to be fair. is that fair? well, let me say a few things. the first is it s important to remember that the president has been president for three years. two of those three years, his party, the democratic party controlled the house and the senate. he could have had anything he wanted and he got it. he got obamacare. he got the stimulus package. he got the wall street regulations and where are we today? we are worse off today than we were in january of 2009, two of the last three years this party controlled it. he can t blame it on congress unless he s blaming it on his own party. sorry. i want to touch on the tax issue briefly because you asked about that. the tax issue is an