who are not so fond of him. bill: and you come down in the political arena where? well, i think it s hard to tell what rick perry really is. is he a conservative or not? as you mentioned, the 27 billion dollar budget deficit, something texas had never had before, it was accumulated on his watch, he was out of the state during much of that time. denied it would be that much. he said at one point, it might be $10 or $15 billion. then when he finally came down and faced it, he blamed in large part the comptroller, susan combs for the deficit. our unemployment under rick perry, when rick perry became governor, texas unemployment was at 4%. in his double on his watch. it s now 8.2%. bill: but under perry, texas has one of the best job creations, if not the best in the country during the recession.
who are not so fond of him. bill: and you come down in the political arena where? well, i think it s hard to tell what rick perry really is. is he a conservative or not? as you mentioned, the 27 billion dollar budget deficit, something texas had never had before, it was accumulated on his watch, he was out of the state during much of that time. denied it would be that much. he said at one point, it might be $10 or $15 billion. then when he finally came down and faced it, he blamed in large part the comptroller, susan combs for the deficit. our unemployment under rick perry, when rick perry became governor, texas unemployment was at 4%. in his double on his watch. it s now 8.2%. bill: but under perry, texas has one of the best job creations, if not the best in the country during the recession.
completely destroyed. there is a big unknown when congress comes back, whether there will be any impact on the tough decision awaiting law pickers on spending cuts and job creations. so joining me now, senator lincoln, let me start with you, president obama spent august beating up on congress a little bit. frankly, it s easier when your approval rating is 40% and you realize let me find somebody who has a worse approval rating than me. and that s congress. we can t see a lot of town hall. almost afraid of the reaction from the public. do you suspect your former colleagues will have a new attitude in september is this. i think we all hope so. i think everybody is ready and anxious to see some results. we ve got to put people back to
the best part of the job is coming to places like this, right here in iowa where you can talk to everybody and everyday americans. there s plenty of fear and anger right here in america s heartland and indeed across the country right now. i sat down with the president just a little while ago for an in depth interview about job, the economy, the 2012 campaign. the war on terror and a lot more. specific about the short-term plans for boosting the economy and how it could make or break his reelection campaign. you said if you don t turn around the economy in three years it s going to be a one-term proposition. do you remember that? when i came into office, i knew i was going to have a big mess to clean up. and frankly, the mess has been bigger than i think a lot of people anticipated at the time. we have made steady progress on these fronts, but we re not making progress fast enough. and what i continue to believe is that ultimately the buck stops with me. a lot of these p
are david axelrod, what is your strategy? i compare him to george w. bush straight on with a couple of exceptions, george w. bush was favorable, he could galvanize the evangelical christian blacks in the south he can t. he s legitimate southerner, five generations. george bush was a transplant with a twang but could rope in the people. he has troubling things in his background, he wants to get rid of medicare and all government socially funded programs. he said that on the record. he s got a lot of problems and i would be rubbing my hands together getting ready for him. i m being really careful if you underestimate rick perry. never run a race. that s how he likes to be known, he wants to be understimestimatt this point. given his record on job creations, out of the top five cities and jobs that just came out, three of them were in texas. how did he do it? using plans that obama wanted to push through but was blocked by our republican congress. you know as well as i do, you