talking about cops, i m talking about teachers, i m talking about how do be do this, congressman? more robust in add voe cases. speak out. when i go around my community in minneapolis and surrounding suburbs, saying we ve got to get people back to work to deal with the problem you re already congressman, all due respect, you ve already got your vote. go in the suburban areas and talk about the schools in those areas or roads going out and get the congressmen, heat up their butts. force them to vote your way? why don t you go on the attack instead of playing defense? well, you know what? i agree with you again. that s why we in the progressive caucus had a 12-city jobs tour talking about rebuilding america. putting america back to work, putting the american dream back in people s grasp again. we went to pittsburgh. we went to milwaukee. we went to detroit. we went to minneapolis, talking
so we will talk about having the teachers and the students and the parents involved to get the omost data gathered to turn the schools around and not changing the schools into charter schools, but tackling the problem head on and if it works in detroit, and they are modeling after what we saw in new orleans and if it can improve new orleans we know how often that school system was before katrina, and if it can work there and they can make their own version for it in detroit, other cities and states hopefully can do the same thing, so we have a great starting point in detroit alone. absolutely. and you know, i m in new orleans right now and just in cleveland with the cbc with the jobs tour and a city like cleveland in the same situation, and people know what is happening in atlanta, and the mess happening there, and having these kind of models and whether it is what is happening in detroit or what is happening in other parts of the country to all of the way down to some of the small t
congressman, all due respect, you ve already got your vote. go in the suburban areas and talk about the schools in those areas or roads going out and get the congressmen, heat up their butts. force them to vote your way? why don t you go on the attack instead of playing defense? well, you know what? i agree with you again. that s why we in the progressive caucus had a 12-city jobs tour talking about rebuilding america. putting america back to work, putting the american dream back in people s grasp again. we went to pittsburgh. we went to milwaukee. we went to detroit. we went to minneapolis, talking about how we fulfill the needs that america has to make sure things are doing right again. i m interrupting you, because you re going to circles. those are democratic districts. you already have those votes. go to the districts you need votes. 218 votes to get a bill in the house. go into areas of republican control and force those people to play defense?
congressman, here you ve got a jobs tour only days after another mediocre report on the jobs front and now this very, very difficult couple of days with the downgrade. where is the president as far as you re concerned? could he have joined your jobs tour? he s marooning to go to yooi yoi on his own jobs tour next week? i think we have two separate missions. i think the president is trying to build up some support around the country for some kind of massive jobs program that he will probably present shortly. we re trying to get people jobs. in fact, we have gotten people jobs. people lined up here this morning at 4:00 a.m. thousands of people here on the chieflandland university campus to try to get jobs. i just spoke in the elevator with a young woman who just got a job and is excited about what happened here today. the president has one agenda. we have another agenda altogether. we think that we can get about
will there be any cons kwebss as we see sort of this rocky road with the economy? i think that people are interested in what michele bachmann has to say and drawing a line in the sand. this isn t just a republican issue. you have independents who are hitting obama on the jobs thing as well. a pew research poll came out and 39% of independents want to vote obama out of office. this is about getting the fiscal house in order, jobs, the economy as a whole and president obama embarking on another jobs tour funded by the tax payers isn t going to get the economic numbers back to what he needs by election day. it may not just be the republicans who want him out of office. ralph nader said in an interview that he would say that chances are about 100% that obama would face a democratic primary challenger. i think unless ralph nader himself is thinking of running, which maybe he is, i don t see that happening. i don t really don t. that s a talking point from the left a lot of times when