almost universally supported. they voted it through in the house. they paid for it to some extent withes their constituents in the mid terms. but i think that bringing that idea back is such a nonstarter that i can t imagine a compromise position between the white house, which is saying they want to protect medicare recipients, and vouchers. i don t think that will fly with democrats at all. what s striking to me is that these issues are still so hard and that the election didn t seem to solve them completely enough. well, that s a statement rather than a question. so i ll just talk about something that i want to talk about, which is well, but i mean, is that true? why didn t it? why didn t it? because look, the republicans cannot give on taxes. they simply can t. it would damage their brand permanently. and the president is unwilling to he is insisting on raising revenues through taxes. there s no way to have a meeting of the minds when those differences exist. and that
and i think republicans maybe have some regret they didn t try to get that in there because this deal didn t include medicare. that said, the president has put it on the table in the past. his base doesn t like it. but i don t see how you get to a compromise when paul ryan, the budget writer in the house, is coming back to this idea of voucherizing medicare. he is bringing that back again. this is an idea that republicans almost universally supported. they voted it through in the house. they paid for it to some extent withes their constituents in the mid terms. but i think that bringing that idea back is such a nonstarter that i can t imagine a compromise position between the white house, which is saying they want to protect medicare recipients, and vouchers. i don t think that will fly with democrats at all. what s striking to me is that these issues are still so hard and that the election didn t seem to solve them completely enough. well, that s a statement rather than a question
said no to preschool for all american kids with the weird leaping in the dark analogy, president obama is trying to bring a version of that idea back with a plan for early education for all americans. but this time the president has wind in his sails blowing in from an unlikely source. it s blowing in from a really, really red state. from maybe the reddest of all red states. this is how oklahoma voted in 2012. mitt romney swept every county. in 2008 john mccain swept every county. in 2004 george bush swept every county. oklahoma is the reddest place we ve got in america. and republicans, you may have heard, like to think that they do not think much of the policy ideas of barack obama. which is why it was so interesting to hear the two states that president obama mentioned as models when he announced his state of the union plan for preschool. tonight i propose working with states to make high-quality
republican votes. president nixon said the idea of preschool for everyone had quote, family-weakening implications. he said quote, the child development envisioned in this legislation would be truly a long leap into the dark for the united states government and the american people. a long leap into the dark. 40 years after president nixon said no to preschool for all american kids with the weird leaping in the dark analogy, president obama is trying to bring a version of that idea back with a plan for early education for all americans. but this time the president has wind in his sails blowing in from an unlikely source. it s blowing in from a really, really red state. from maybe the reddest of all red states. this is how oklahoma voted in 2012. mitt romney swept every county. in 2008 john mccain swept every county. in 2004 george bush swept every county. oklahoma is the reddest place we ve got in america.
long leap into the dark for the united states government and the american people. a long leap into the dark. 40 years after president nixon said no to preschool for all american kids with the weird leaping in the dark analogy, president obama is trying to bring a version of that idea back with a plan for early education for all americans. but this time the president has wind in his sails blowing in from an unlikely source. it s blowing in from a really, really red state. from maybe the reddest of all red states. this is how oklahoma voted in 2012. mitt romney swept every county. in 2008 john mccain swept every county. in 2004 george bush swept every county. oklahoma is the reddest place we ve got in america. and republicans, you may have heard, like to think that they do not think much of the policy ideas of barack obama. which is why it was so interesting to hear the two states that president obama mentioned as models when he announced his state of the union