untouchables, wag the dog. it goes on and on. just a brilliant thinker and writer. but now he has a book, recessional, the death of free speech and cost of a free lunch. this book. i read this book in one night. i couldn t put it down. this book is not only beautifully written, it is a book on philosophy of liberty p versus tyranny. it is a book about the greatness of america. and the graveness of the challenges that it faces rights now. david mamet is a very brave man, a man of hollywood man who goes against the wind there. i hope it does well. i think even 50 or 100 years from now, when we re long
on rick santorum s policies. he has he rejected nafta, rejected free trade agreements. he embraced medicare part d and no child left behind. in the end, just like david gergen just said, he s embraced this economic populism that he is going to, in fact, specifically drop the corporate tax rate for just the manufacturing sector but leave it or reduce it to 17%. this is picking winners and losers in an economy, not economic liberty p, whiches says to me the economy may be important but not principles economic populism can be handled in a few different ways. one is the way ron paul is handling it saying you re freer to make decisions with your money than the government can do for you. or rick santorum economic populism even liberal economic populism. let s go to the tea party and talk about what influence they are having. mark skoda, founder of the memphis tea party. mark, this is a bit of a
your $$$$$ starts right now. as we count down to new hampshire, the economy is still the driving force in the minds of voters in the united states. but is it the driving force in the republican primary? welcome to your $$$$$. i m ali velshi. the latest cnn opinion research corporation poll shows 57% of americans think that the economy is the most important issue facing this country. i want to bring in cnn senior political analyst david gergen. david, the polls say mitt romney has the best chance to beat president obama in the republican field. do conservatives still reluctant to get behind romney feel he lacks what it takes to turn the economy around or is it something else all together? he is actually doing well when people asked is your most important issue the economy in iowa. he won a healthy plurality of those voters who thought the economy was number one. he s having some trouble connecting with voters emotionally. they seem stiff, reserved, can t quite understa