two issues we talk about often on this program, health care reform and immigration have been the focus of increasingly angry and sometimes violent political rhetoric. david gergen, senior analyst is with me. we are not connecting and have not connected the conversation that is go on out there in politics that create a bad climate to the shooting in arizona but you have expressed concern for quite some time before those shootings, over what you have termed a climate of hatred that s developed in our political discourse. what has you using those words as someone who has watched and been involved in politics for decades. there has clearly been a deterioration in discourse over the last 15 years. it didn t start under president obama, intensified under president george w. bush and now president obama. i think that regardless of what happened in tucson, he recognized before tucson we needed to cleanse it. let me go to what the president did. i thought the speech was very good. h
disagreements if your ideas have merit. coming up in the 2:00 eastern hour, the financial guess will tell us why budgeting is the new black. your $$$$$ starts right now. americans don t need to agree on the issues. but we do need to change the way we talk to one another. welcome to your $$$$$, i m ali velshi. the tragic events in arizona caused leaders from both parties to look at how we debate issues in the country. two issues we talk about often on this program, health care reform and immigration have been the focus of increasingly angry and sometimes violent political rhetoric. david gergen, senior analyst is with me. we are not connecting and have not connected the conversation that is go on out there in politics that create a bad climate to the shooting in arizona but you have expressed for quite sometime, before the shootings, over what you confirmed a climate of hatred in political discourse. what has you using those words as someone who has watched and been in
david said the republican party is off course, jamie said it s on probation, matt says this was not a republican victory. your response? they re all right, and it s something that s been, i ve been saying since i became chairman of the rnc. the party had to do a number of things early, and it had to do it sincerely, and that was to first acknowledge the missteps that we have made over the past. big government republicanism is not innate to us, it s not part of our dna, and yet we tried to force ourselves into this into that box, and instead we wound up forcing people out of the party, people who have supported us and brought us to the governing majority under reagan and the early days of bush 41. so the reality of it is we are in a new reality, and i think particularly, you know, with jamie s point we are on probation. this election was not, oh, gee, we love republicans, you know, we re coming back home, we re the prodigal party.
advance in policies. but what we have to be careful of are the politicians, the pacs and what i call the power brokers and organizers who think it s in their best interests to just move us into another voting bloc. jon: he mentions being careful of the politicians. jamie, let me ask you this, this question from gary markham, i m interested in the knowing how the tea party will help its newly-elected candidates not be corrupted once they take their positions. well, you know, i think that that s really what makes the tea party different. i mean, in the past people would wake up after labor day, after september and decide to get involved in elections and look at their candidates. and one of the things that makes the pea party movement you tea party movement unique is that we are staying engaged in an ongoing basis. people are con standly e-mailing, they re constantly calling their legislature, and we re going to be meeting with the new congressmen who are coming in the as well as thos
and we re going to bring pack our tea party back our tea party panelists, we have jamie radke, david webb and matt kibbe. jamie, diane had that great question about what s the very first thing you think the tea party-backed candidates should attack once they get to d.c.? well, you know, it s interesting, since president obama loves metaphors about the driving, we simply threw a monkey wrench into the gears. we were going off a fiscal cliff, and one thing people want to see is obamacare repealed, and they don t want to see us curb spending but detour off the spending path jenna: so do you think health care is our number one issue, jamie? is that the number one thing in the priority list? i think that that is the number one thing that motivated the pea party movement, was to see obamacare repealed which was