for president by promising to take us back to yesterday. yesterday is over. marco rubio monday making his own white house run official. and taking a swipe at mrs. clinton along the way. so is florida s freshman senator the new face of the republican party? and the gop s answer to hillary in 16? we re back with dan henninger, kim strassell and james freeman. kim, is he the man of tomorrow? he has the potential to be. interesting that marco rubio was talking about yesterday. when he first came into the senate, he was elected back in 2010 this was a guy who really was on fire very much the kind of new breed of republican reformer. he was out there talking about entitlement reform before most of the party would. he came in he pushed through immigration reform, smart immigration reform. i think the problem is washington can warp people.
more youth and energy, which he obviously has. he s basically saying let s redistribute the credits but in a different way than democrats. i think he s not talking about how do we grow the economy to the extent he should be. hold on a second. kim, come into this, please. i saw rubio s tax plan. i thought it was relatively bold, lower top rate of individual income tax lower the corporate top rate of tax. isn t that relatively bold? isn t that going for growth? some of it is. the corporate part of his tax plan is actually fairly bold and it would for instance and importantly zero out taxes on capital gains and dividends. that is all about growth. the individual part is problematic. as james said, he has embraced this sort of branch of the republican party that believes that what we ought to be doing to get votes is to redistribute the wealth to people, to the middle class and say here, here s more money, child tax credits, things like that.
various campaign arguments against different g.o.p. candidates. imagine if the shoe was on the other foot. dana: it wasn t an interview. it was a strategy. eric: how will we attack the g.o.p. candidates? greg: bob brought this up. bush used to have get-together. is there a difference between that and this? dana: not really. i have not been in the room. but i know on the right, some people are not happy with president bush on certain things. they ask questions in a respectful way, on immigration or the war. i remember one of my favorite people was charles krauthammer. you know i love. kim strassell of the wall street journal. we would not just do conservative. president obama before he took office, he sat with the conservatives and they were impressed.
i m stuart varney in for paul gigot. hillary clinton kicked off a second presidential run this week with a move to the left, striking a populist tone as she vows to work for quote, everyday americans while railing against overpaid hedge fund managers and ceos. if you look across the country, the deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. and there s something wrong with that. there s something wrong when ceos make 300 times more than the typical worker. there s something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers that i saw on i-80 as i was driving here over the last two days. so is she a credible champion of the middle class? let s ask wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan r, james freeman and washington columnist kim strassell. is she a credible champion of
moved along. you now have a liberal wing that has crafted this agenda outside from her and handed it to her. and it was never what she was ever about. so she not only has the problem with her own wealth, this is a politician who has long had, when she s run for office, she s going to be funded by private equity managers, hedge fund managers, and having to explain all of that i think is something that she s not necessarily ready to do because she was never prepared to do it. kim, she s going to raise $2.5 billion. that s astronomical amount of money. how do you square that with the middle class? this is remember, the clintons were the people that were actually sent out in this last midterm to go and help the kind of more conservative democrats out there because that s the part of the party that they always represented. and now with pressure from elizabeth warren, the demand is that she run this very populist campaign. i m not sure she s fluent with the language and i think she car