i knew he wasn t going too going to. look in the mirror, dude. he looks like my dad when he had to like once every 20 years go to moo i mom s family reunion. he is standing in the corner like it looks like he is not enjoying himself. that s a problem remember bush senior got in trull for looking at her watch. this is a guy who ran in a tough state and a very popular governor. sometimes he seems like a figure from another time. this is a very weird campaign. somehow iowa and new hampshire are done. these poll is are bs. they are tiny, tony samples.
everyone thinks i m the politician in the family. we did a coin flip when we got married. i called tails. tails never fail so i m the guy who ran, but the politician just as good as me in the family is the woman i met all those years ago at the university of delaware from a family of 10 people. people say, why aren t you shy in a crowd? i said, you should see the family i married into. my wife has been an indispensable part of everything that i ve done with my life over the last 30 years, and she is largely responsible for the four amazing people that you see standing with her. [ cheers and applause ] ever since i ve been governor, i ve been happy to use the veto at home, too, and so far, so good.
whatever, fancy pants. fancy pants. joined by another fancy pants. so this week maybe the supreme court took away his pen. maybe the phone, too. look, here s the thing. we know just on the irony scale this is a guy who ran for office talking about returning the executive branch to its right ful boundaries, right? that was his thing, signing statements and overreach and all this stuff. democrats point out that the bush administration used a lot of executive orders, but it s not how many, it s how. it s what s in them. and when you say some have said that he s engaged in executive overreach, that will include radical services like sotomayor. the timing of boehner s lawsuit is really interesting, because the whole immigration thing is just hanging fire out there. we ve got the crisis at the border, we have all of this going on, and the president tells congress, give me what i want or i m going to jam it through with executive authority.
so an absolute commitment to a balanced budget in accountancy terms may not be in the interests of the united states at a given balance expenditures against revenues and then be reasonable about what we are willing to invest in terms of getting revenues, just to be against taxes per se means to be against our own national interest. speaking of balance, we did have a guy who ran for office saying he would take a balanced approach if president obama won based on that. i think there is still a grand bargain out there to be had. liberals like myself might not like it. but republicans can t seem to meet it. $10 of spending cuts for one dollar of tax revenue, you said would you raise your hand today
explain where we re headed and where we d like to go and what we re up against and who we re up against. how does he do that starting today? well, chris, in narrow terms he deals with the website. we waits for republicans to make mistakes. what he s really got to do is recover the narrative of his presidency in his public life. don t forget this is a guy who ran as the change himself. he said we were the change we re waiting for. he was the change. that meant he and his own story embody the idea of community in america. and because of that, he was ideally equipped to help bring that message and reality to the middle class in america and to people struggling to get into the middle class. that was the narrative he built with david axelrod. barack obama has to run a third campaign now and recover the narrative of who he is in relation to what he wants to see happen. which is american community of which the health care plan in