and so they see this, and you look at surveys now, and over 50% of the american people think this thing is not going to help the economy. this is campaign 2012, not fixing the economy. the question is whether it could be ultimately vindicated if, you know, laying out and also tapping into the frustrationf americans, that they feel because they want to get something done. before we go to products, mark halperin, this book making a lot of waves in washington this weekend, it s about to come out, and it talks about a lot of rancor in the white house, that it s not a good place for women, there s a lot of disputes, and a lot of those disputes centering on what would bill clinton have done. we know what the undercurrents are like already with former clinton advisers working in this administration. here s one piece of the book that i ll put up on the screen, over the past few months, national economic council chair larry summers has said this in a stage whis ter to omb director peter ors
act. this is the obama jobs act. and so they see this, and you look at surveys now, and over 50% of the american people think this thing is not going to help the economy. this is campaign 2012, not fixing the economy. the question is whether it could be ultimately vindicated if, you know, laying out and also tapping into the frustration of americans, that they feel because they want to get something done. before we go to products, mark halperin, this book making a lot of waves in washington this weekend, it s about to come out, and it talks about a lot of rancor in the white house, that it s not a good place for women, there s a lot of disputes, and a lot of those disputes centering on what would bill clinton have done. we know what the undercurrents are like already with former clinton advisers working in this administration. here s one piece of the book that i ll put up on the screen, over the past few months, national economic council chair larry summers has said this in a stage
screen as it applies to the economy. over the past few months, national economic council chair larry summers has said this in a stage whisper to omb director peter orszag and others as they left the morning economics briefings, quote, i mean it, summer stressed, we re home alone, there s no adults in charge. clinton would never have made these mistakes. well, what governor granholm said i think is the key to our current substantive problem, not political problem. tl economy has changed, and we need a president who can direct the country, lead the country to someplace and say here s how we re going to have jobs in the new country. there s no one better at that than bill clinton. president obama has shown one weakness throughout his time in national life is he has not been a great explainer in chief about the new economy and how his policies will actually make things come about. it s the same on this jobs bill. if you break it down, the individual elements are popular in most cases. it