network. first, they were terrorists and now they re sob s. beyond the prize, let s take these son of a [beep] out and give america back to america where we belong. thank you very much. thank you! you re welcome. should the president condemn that statement? former white house press secretary dana perino weighs in. then he served in the united states army for more than 20 years in desert storm and in desert shield so what does colonel allan west think about the plan to leave 3,000 troops in iraq? he s here live. [ country ] [ man ] gone, like my last paycheck gone, gone away gone, like my landlord s smile gone, gone away my baby s gone away with dedicated claims specialists. and around-the-clock service, travelers can help make things better quicker. will your auto and home insurer. be there when you need them most?
it s ridiculous right now. but the problem is this, if you were to invest the money that you re going to use for your home downpayment, you need to plan to leave that alone at least five years so there s really no middle ground. you kind of have to park it in a savings account and not make much and be safe which is what i d recommend for your downpayment for plan on leaving it alone for a long, long time. here s george from phoenix. dave, i m afraid if my wife and i wait any longer to buy a house, interest rates will climb and we won t get financing. we have a little in savings and do qualify for an fha loan. what do you think we should do? george, when broke people buy houses, it makes you broker. don t buy a home until you re until you re ready. you need your emergency fund in place. you need to have a good, strong down payment and you need to be out of debt. you will i ve always heard this question for 20 years that people are going to be priced out of housing market. and it
could that carry over? yeah, it sure could. you need to know if a guy like perry is going to really sit down and master this stuff and i think that could be a serious problem. if perry is transparent. in other words, if you can kind of see through him and there s not a lot of substance there and not a lot of specificity and a lot of facts. particularly after romney came out with this great plan, he s going to be in trouble. uh-huh. yesterday, we had the governor. governor perry on our show and we asked him, when is your plan going to come out? he said he was just dealing with the fires for now. you got to think he s under pressure to also come out with a plan sometime soon. one other quick exit question, will either of them go against each other or just attack president obama? no, i think both will go after each other. i think romney is going to try to draw the difference between someone who actually has created jobs and someone who has just presided over it and perry is going to
later when he s no longer in office. we ll see if that turns out to be true. but he s going to have he has a very tough sell tomorrow night. and one of the interesting things is while in the opening, you were talking about it will call for some stimulus but yesterday it was revealed that former speaker nancy pelosi, the minority leader in the house now has banned the word stimulus so it will be fun to watch everybody try to figure out what word they re going to use. right. apparently jay carney said yesterday, there are some things we haven t told you about yet. they ll be in the plan. but if you look at that stuff right there, you go, ok. that s not going to do it. it leaves you a little flat. and i think that i do think there will be a surprise. i m holding out. i think maybe they re holding something back. like what? maybe the corporate tax rate. maybe he will finally actually say i am he has talked around the edges of that and he might actually say, ok, i m for it.
where his polls are plummeting, he needs a game changer. well, the expectations could not get lower for this seat so anything that he says is going to have a little give him a little bit of a bump and give him a couple of days worth but the political gamesmanship leading up to this speech even regarding the timing and the fact that the huntsman plan came out last week, the g.o.p. candidate. romney s plan came out yesterday. very thorough. the republican candidates are going to debate tonight. in like a pre-buttal to the president s speech. by the time you get to friday, the headlines will all be about the packers game. or the saints, depending on who wins that one. let s talk about the three g.o.p. members who said they aren t going to show up for this speech. nancy pelosi has called that disrespectful. is it a mandated thing? you know, some people would argue that maybe the president should not have used a joint session of congress for this type of speech. so is it ok if the