bring in the panel now from washington. kirsten powers columnist for the daily beast. liz marlantes political reporter for christian science monitor and syndicateded columnist charles krauthammer. okay, liz, the obama campaign is betting this does play, especially in swing states. and for middle class workers who look at his time, mitt romney s time at bain and are not excited by his business experience. how do you think this all is playing over the past couple of days? no question this is a successful attack on the part of the obama campaign team. do i think that the average voter cares whether mitt romney left bain in 1999 versus 2002? no. the details in general will get hashed out in washington and the average voter is not going to care about. what it is doing is creating a cloud, creating a sense that maybe mitt romney s business experience one quite what he seemed to represent it as.
republican senator john barrasso is having none of it and it is time for our sunday group, brit hume, fox news senior political analyst. liz marlantes of the christian science monitor and shannon bream who covers the supreme court for us and charles lane from the washington post and, chief justice roberts closes the legal avenue to overturn obamacare. how secure is obamacare as a big government program that will go forward. as a political, legislative earth matter it is more vulnerable to repeal than before for the reasons you discussed with senator mcconnell. this being a tax, opens the possibility that it can be dealt with, acted on, repealed using budget reconciliation, no filibuster allowed, a simple majority of 51 is enough to undo the law, so furthermore, in
come to this, newt dropping out. a sad day. he s a very passionate man. i m going to miss that passion. i don t feel like he s really going away. can t help himself. this was a time to not talk about the lunar colony and yet, he had to bring it up. it was his best chance ever. everyone was paying attention. buzzfeed is hoping to bring newt to the bronx zoo with us. wow. we can do a full-court press on that, please, newt, go to the zoo with buzzfeed. liz? i would have to go with ann romney s interview on cbs which i wrote about this week. i just think he s got to the stop calling him a wild and crazy guy. it just rings so untrue. and you know, in many, many interviews she s done variations of that. she called him the life of the party and entertaiment tonight i think. it s just not helping. it reminds me of you know, al gore when they sent tipper out repeatedly to try because she was seen as more likable and personable. it didn t work.
in arlington, virginia, addressing the economy and his plans to subsidize students loans. joining me today liz marlantes, political commenter an lish yar menendez patricia murphy, citizen jane politics and buzzfeed editor in chief, the always buzzy ben smith. folks, we just heard the president talking a little bit about jobs numbers at the top. unfortunately, there was some sort of terrible storm going over the washington area. so we missed that. we apologize if you were watching at home but he was speaking at length about students loans. i want to talk about the jobs numbers first. we know that numbers are disappointing if the word only precedes them as in the u.s. economy only the created 115,000 jobs last month. liz, you re new to this rodeo. let s talk to you first. this is not necessarily what the white house wants although better that these numbers come out now than later on in the year. yes, economists have been talking to some extent it seems like there s a first quarter curs
some of the press reports coming from china suggest that we may not have been as effective in protecting his freedom as we should have been and if those reports are true, that would be a very dark day for freedom. now, liz, this goes to exactly what we were talking about which is the foreign policy equation. you can t let the white house have any wins on foreign policy. can democrats actually take this away from republicans? i mean, i feel like throughout the cycle, we ve felt republicans almost wishing that some foreign policy crisis would come up like iran. maybe it s going to be iran or maybe north korea. they have a lot of options. we ve got to get the jimmy carter thing happening again. we need some sort of hostage situation, not really obviously. but there is this tendency to try to find a darkside on foreign policy. so far they haven t been able to find one. you see obama responding to this pressure from his right all through the administration, particularly on israe