sustainability of those programs and hence our economy. what we have seen transpire the last year is it has been our side the republicans that have put one plan throughout. and in the process out there. and in the process what has happened is all of the nice talk that debbie and others may say is unfortunately they start to attack us as wanting to deprive seniors of medicare and social security et cetera. nothing could be further from the truth. we understand that we have to protect the entitlement programs. the entitlement programs for the seniors today. and we have to sit down and have a discussion. we need more ideas on the table. we shouldn t see the democrats continue to attack an idea put out there. let them come bring more ideas. let s commit ourselves to dealing with the the programs and stop the politics. stesteny hoyer committed ton up or down vote. already a democratic member of
understand if we want to keep fighting to move in a new direction we have a long way to go and we need to make sure that we continue with democrats being in the majority and that is why we will hold the majority on november 2. bret: a new memo this weekend. they write this. voters are not moved by messages that say go forward and not back and mention president bush then and now or even show signs that the economy is showing signs of progress. only 5% moved to the democrats. we lose ground. these messages are helping the republicans. you just used one of those phrases, congress woman. is the democratic messaging working? well, you know, i don t think that most members that are running for reelection use polling memos like stan greenberg and james carville
appropriate consumer protection in place and allowing the businesses to continue to drive and focused on making sure that we could give 98% of americans a tax break, focusing on middle class tax breaks and focusing on small business tax breaks, giving 16 different tax breaks in the last a little less than two years to small business owners. and taking this economy from bleeding 750,000 plus jobs a average now adding an average of 100,000 private sector jobs a month. more jobs than the entire bush administration created and the republicans offer more of their failed policies of the past. take us back to the strangleholds that they had when it came to tax cutting policy, focused only on the wealthiest, exploded the deficit. took a $5.6 trillion surplus to a $1.3 trillion deficit and now they want the keys to the car back and american voters
hopefully we can work on things to produce results and get people back to work. bret: why should voters keep democrats in power? you will notice that congressman cantor said nothing about what republicans would do which is what you are supposed to do when trying to give voters a reason to choose your candidates over your opponents candidates. this election will be a clear choice. american voters have a choice between democratic candidates and incumbent members pushing hard to turn the economy around, create jobs, have saved or created through the recovery act over three million jobs, passed healthcare reform which took insurance companies out of the driver s seat when it comes to deciding about patients healthcare choices and put patients and doctors in the rightful place where they belong making the choices. made sure that wall street couldn t continue to run amuck which the republicans allowed to happen. struck a balance between the appropriate level of regulation and making sur
of long-term fiscal sustainability of those programs and hence our economy. what we have seen transpire the last year is it has been our side the republicans that have put one plan throughout. and in the process out there. and in the process what has happened is all of the nice talk that debbie and others may say is unfortunately they start to attack us as wanting to deprive seniors of medicare and social security et cetera. nothing could be further from the truth. we understand that we have to protect the entitlement programs. the entitlement programs for the seniors today. and we have to sit down and have a discussion. we need more ideas on the table. we shouldn t see the democrats continue to attack an idea put out there. let them come bring more ideas. let s commit ourselves to dealing with the the programs and stop the politics. stesteny hoyer committed ton up or down vote.