the other thing that i think is so interesting about the party. i m sorry, i m trying to get over the image of barnicle bumping into people at home depot and running around and knocking them down. did they know you were bumping into them? yeah. i do it on purpose. you don t have to put a burlap bag on him and spin him around and make him dizzy. we had four political parties die and come back in the first 70 years of the republicans and for 150 years, we ve only had two. right. and you wonder with this independent number you just pointed out, yet again, here on, what, the 20th anniversary of the perot business, why is it that no third opinion third opinion party, no third force. it s chg. you can explain this better than all of us. political parties in the 18th century, in the 19th century were necessary because it was a big country. right. there weren t a lot of ways to send your messages around so you needed these huge hulking
innocent of all charges. no. a great guy. even republicans that worked with him and he beat up and they loved him. a great guy, dan was. not only a great guy personally but i think representative of a near in politics when things actually get done that help people. when there was no real deep differences between the two aisles, republican and democrats. when people could come together, despite their party s affiliation to get something done. he and reagan got together in 82, 83. absolutely. yeah. saved social security. he took a hell of a lot of heat for doing that. yeah, he made mistakes. yes, charlie ma made mistakes. we got to remember they helped a heck of a lot of people. he knew where he was there. he knew why he was in washington to get something done. he didn t lose touch where he came from. i think that s a problem a lot of people go to washington and all of a sudden they are part of the washington elite. merns after all this happened he grew back in the hous
i will say i think there are many times when i read the transcripts even of answers i give in here that i could have said things slightly differently. i will say, you know, i watch a lot of cable tv and you don t have to watch it to get frustrated by some of what s said and i think that is what that answer was borne out of. what do you say to progressives who, on reading your comments yesterday, saying if that is their attitude, i m staying home in november. i don t think they will because i think what is at stake in november is too important. all right. so jon meechage, we talked about it last hour. this is a man who is not afraid. he, obviously, has the president s ear in a way that few press secretaries have in recent history. yeah. he has the confidence of his client. clearly has job security. and has said two things recently
there aren t a lot of young voters and not a lot of minority voters. these are very white congressional districts and older congressional districts in the midwest. southwest. and that is where he has got to be concerned. one of the financial battle grounds is wall street where huge numbers of people normally republicans voted for, supported financially barack obama. do you sense a lot of buyers remorse on wall street? so much more hated than bush! it really is amazing. you can t mention him. you can t even mention him. why? i don t get it. he has done that much. if you work at goldman sachs your little child says to you, daddy, are new trouble? when you work at morgan stanley you know you re hated. already we hate people say those rip-off guys at j.p. morgan got the deal. somebody has to do the deal. gm, let s talk good news for a second. thank you. great earnings from gm and
that protected preexisting conditions and the like, a lot of americans didn t feel like their health care system was better and they punished democrats because of it. i think what paul ryan said one way or another will be true. he said results are going to make this popular. results will define this bill ultimately. friday government funding runs outs. are we heading for a shutdown or just kicking the can down the road again? my vote in what i think will happen and. your bet. my bet thank you is they ll kick the can down the road because after taking a lot of votes to pass this tax bill they re not going to want to step on their own message and shutting down the government and looking like idiots that can t govern. so i think they ll find a way to get it past the holidays. it may mean they have to revisit this in january, but that s where i think we re headed. meanwhile there s still this among the trump allies this effort to discredit the russia investigation and mueller