about health care reform was huge. when you actually go you there the elements of the reform bill, the reform law, people are widely supportive. so, again, sort of has to do with how this comes out. i trust the president doing a good job selling it to the public. the other interesting element what this does to republican candidate. fact matter if the law is upheld that puts republican nominee siding with the supreme court and against the tea party or side with the tea party and against the supreme court and they will side with the tea party. but that is awkward position for someone who wants to lead our country. that sound really great for a talking point but here s the reality. we needed health care reform incrementally both health insurance reform and health care delivery reform. we got neither with obamacare. what we got, considering we have a lack of doctors, about 380,000 short . megyn: i don t want to get back into arguing merits of the law. my point is, americans look
seen the right direction numbers bombing out in the teens, that s as bad as they were in the closing days of the bush administration. we see things moving in the wrong direction from the president s point of view. if he can improve those numbers between now and next november he improves his chances for re-election. megyn: why is that put on the president, wrong track? because we ve seen rate insurance of congress are far lower than the president s approval rating. why do we conclude that that is a reflection of how the president is doing. ratings are always lower for congress and the president, doesn t matter what congress and what president there is. but the president is seen as the guy in charge. and when your baseball team isn t playing well you fire the manager, and when the political team isn t doing well you fire the guy in charge. the big number really that is driving all of this is perceptions of the economy. on the day that president obama took office 35% of americans said t
ill concealed contempt. he says there is a contempt made if not for america then for americans. mitt romney picked up on the theme as well. he says i think the president fund today mentally misunderstandses americans and what this nation is all about. they do have a point there. the other point is tara talks about bad business decisions, yes there certainly were some. a lot of them, actually that led to the financial crisis, but what has happened over the last three years under this president has been atrocious lee bad economic decisions that have put a huge wet pwhropbgt over the economy in this country from suffocating regulations from the epa and the nlrb to the massive big government, big spending that we ve seen today. we are going to smash through $15 trillion in national debt. this president has piled on over 4 trillion in less than three years. that kind of suffocation on the economy is what is preventing economic growth. it s not that americans are lazy or that we ve lost ou
national table. megyn: does he want that? it was so devisive. he actually cared there are 36 million uninsured americans and everyone else suffering from declining care and rising cost. he did something about it. that helps him. megyn: what do you think, doug, that is such a devisive issue? i think they see it as a no-lose situation. if the individual mandate in the bill is ruled unconstitution that i think it will mobilize a base at this point is not fire up at all. and if it is ruled constitutional, it will only but help the public support for the bill, helping them mobilize their constituency. that is why i don t think they went for full 11th circuit review. megyn: let me go another possibility, david. is it possible the white house believes if it is struck down, unconstitutional takes it off the table, such a devisive issue, takes it off the table as a club for the republicans to beat obama over the head with, president obama? if they rule constitutional he wins and can say i h
that is not true at all. megyn: people go there a lot with him, is that unfair? i think it s totally unfair. it s a narrative and meant to undermine him for re-election. remember during the campaign when he was caught on tape saying, americans cling to their guns and their religion. there does seem a constant narrative coming from this man that is sort of an elite leftist view of middle america. no way, not at all. he was talking about that quite consistently. there are people who responded back and said, yeah i cling to my gun and my religion, that s darn right. i ve seen that on twitter, and people proudly say that. i think he was talking about a slice of americans. the bigger point is we do have problems and we are in a deep whole. when you have income equality for years that is a problem. that is not something the president created. he s been in office for three years. when is he going to combat it? there s been 20 straight months of private sector growth. is it eno