construction is complete? where are the jobs then? hopefully you have more. i grew up in texas and fort worth. i remember seeing the signs all over the parks in our areas and the schools. if these were built by the federal government by programs in the depression and everybody in my home township recognized that was a good thing. that you actually did things that the country needed. you put people back to work. i hope that the congress will agree to this. the president said that these are going to be paid, he is not going to add to deficit. we ll need to see specifics how he will pay for it. hopefully republicans will agree. putting people to work is not a bad idea. i can t remember republican ospose that. heather: up to the super committee to figure out how to pay for it. fred, give you the final word. we tried this before. he came up with $80 billion stimulus plan and said it would keep employment down to 8%. it failed miserably. it wasn t shovel ready. employment is above 9%.
virginia, home district of eric cantor? just a signal this is more political gamesmanship, one upmanship? what is this really? not at all. people have criticized president for being timid and not enough enough for the past couple of years. expression that fred knows. politics is not bean bag. this is a contact sport. nothing wrong going after and the home of an opponent. he will go other places, this is not the only place he will go. take the message to republicans and the public and hope congress does something. let the issues be joined. heather: but fred, isn t this really a message to eric cantor specifically? it s really disappointing to me after two-and-a-half years waiting for a jobs plan he comes out with a marketing campaign and goes in can t can on apolitical vendetta agaie congressman. disappointing. he picked the wrong state. he picked a state bob mcdonald was elected
governor by 18 points 12 mont months after obama carried the state by six. how did he do that? focusing like a laser on job creation. since he has been elected he has created jobs. 63% approval rating in the state. obama around 39% now? there is an expression that harry truman said. if you can t take the heat, get out of the kitchen there is nothing wrong to go in the opponents and make the sale and go to other districts. the president has a real plan. you re saying where is the plan? he has one now. it s up to him to sell it to the country. i don t believe it will pass congress unless the country agrees this is the right thing to do. he needs to tell the story. i hope republicans agree there is good things in this. some of this is the proposal that the republicans made. heather: to be fair, cantor was invited to attend president obama s event. but he had one of his own
week. then we can make a judgment whether it make sense. he ll have a specific plan. as to my governor of texas, fred, i don t think you want my governor to be the republican nominee. he is too far to the right. he can t win a general election. people don t want to eliminate social security. as people suggested. let him be the republican nominee. that s the best thing to happen to democrats. heather: that is a whole nother debate. get in details some of which we know about the plan or not plan jobs act. the bill is $253 billion in tax cuts around there, it could draw support from republicans. additional $194 billion in new spending, likely that will prove a little harder sell. the president asked for money to fund the highway, mod earnize schools and stabilize neighborhood and help hire teachers and first responders. we can agree that is a good thing. congressman frost, in terms of the construction job which we have heard before. we heard about these jobs. what happens when the
the mission, the entire grav map the entire gravitational field of the moon and find out what the lunar surface is made up of. i thought it was cheese. isn t it? heather: we ll find out. the president wasting no time taking his new jobs plan on the road. mr. obama telling an audience in richmond, virginia, yesterday, that his nearly $450 billion plan that contains measures that appeal to both republicans as well as democrats. but perhaps most telling is where the president spoke. it just happens to be rich monday is the hometown of house majority leader eric cantor, one of mr. obama biggest political adversaries on the hill. here now, greg mallot former chair for mccain presidential campaign and former campaign manager for first president bush and congressman martin frost, democrat. thank you for joining us, both of you. good to be with you. you heather: congressman frost, i begin with you first. why begin the tour in