instead of appealing to the hope and optimism that were the hallmarks to his first campaign, he has launched his second campaign by preying on the emotions of fear, envy and resentment. this has the potential to be just as damaging as his misguided policies. sewing social unrest and class resentment makes america weaker, not stronger. ryan targeted president obama s jobs tour as a propaganda campaign, saying it misleads the american people to insight hatred toward the rich. he s going town to town. setting up strawmen and scapegoats and engaging in intellectually lazy arguments as he tries to build support for punitive tax hikes. false. absolutely false. the economic reality created by republicans and endorsed by paul ryan has divided this country and will continue to do so.
jon: fox news is your election headquarters, and with the president s job approval ratings sagging, right now the gallup tracker puts it at 44% with 47% of those polled disapproving of the job he s doing, some democratic politicians in key battleground states seem to be backing away from the commander in chief. this was apparent during his recent jobs tour. you just couldn t see many of them on stage with the president. let s talk about it with juan williams, a fox news political analyst. stephen hayes is a senior writer if the weekly for the weekly standard and a fox news contributor. a couple of years ago, steve, being with barack obama was seen as political magic. what s happened? it was. he had the magic touch, and politicians would flock to try to get face time with him whether at campaign event or having him do fundraisers for
them. obviously, now, as you suggest with the polling numbers the president eat not nearly as popular as he once was, and democrats in some cases are scrambling to get away from the president. you had a situation in virginia where the president wuss on in the jobs tour where ward armstrong, the house minority leader who s a democrat, is running ads contrasting his views with the president s views. this is how democrats in a lot of these key battleground states are approaching the president. it s not helpful to the president. jon: juan, you think it s more a matter of, well, the president s perm popularity rating personal popularity rating remains very high. i think that s a key point. and, you know, just to pick up on what steve was saying, you can see this writ large in terms of some senate campaigns, people like joe manchin in west virginia, claire mccaskill in missouri. but, you know, i think, jon, it s a little bit of short-sighted thinking. i remember back with president bush
do with what we re talking about? go ahead, dana. dana: what is interesting is today on the floor of the senate, u.s. majority leader of the senate harry reid said the public sector is suffering more than the private sector. this is obvious they re sledding all the jobs. now we get this today. not only that the federal government has 170,000 employees, the average salary is $126,000. this is where the anger starts to come in. occupy wall street should take their show on the road. bob: talk about leaders, minority leader, mitch mcconnell is so full of stuff i can t believe it. he attacks obama for being on the road with his bus, on his jobs tour in the meantime, he says that he is politicizing the whole jobs issue. he says my only job is defeat barack obama for a second term. dana: he didn t say that
hello, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront, taxes, presidential candidate rick perry on the heels of last night s presidential debate, proposing a flat tax. scrapping the 3 million words of the current tax code starting over with something simpler. a flat tax. a flat tax has one big problem. if you tax everyone at the same rate, people who make less get hit harder and pay more than the current system. the flat tax was popularized by steve forbes during his two presidential runs, but he actually exempted families of four making less than $36,000. bold ideas are something we challenge on this show for a better america. let s see whether the flat tax is bold and smart or bold and bad. jim bianco is president of bianco researchers. you took the time to run the numbers and make sense of it. bottom line, instead of the politics of it, if you exempt people earning under a certain amount, what s the magic rate for everyone else to raise the same amount of revenue under a flat