appealing to independents. that s all this is about. he used all the cliches that would help him with that constituency. steve indicated, the democrats in the congress have already accented it is only going to be about cuts. already accepteds it is only going to be about cuts. he is talking about the corporate jets again and again. starred the speech blame it all on beach, 3 1/2 years in. wabasso all on bush, 3 1/2 years in. he talked about himself as being a new reagan. liberal reagan. reagan could do one thing that almost no modern president could do. he could go to the nation and sway an issue. this is obama thinking he s going to achieve that. i don t know if he is going to succeed or no but he spoke to the american people. remember, what he told eric cantor, you call my bluff, i ll go to the people.
appealing to independents. that s all this is about. he used all the cliches that would help him with that constituency. steve indicated, the democrats in the congress have already accented it is only going to be about cuts. already accepteds it is only going to be about cuts. he is talking about the corporate jets again and again. starred the speech blame it all on beach, 3 1/2 years in. wabasso all on bush, 3 1/2 years in. he talked about himself as being a new reagan. liberal reagan. reagan could do one thing that almost no modern president could do. he could go to the nation and sway an issue. this is obama thinking he s going to achieve that. i don t know if he is going to succeed or no but he spoke to the american people. remember, what he told eric cantor, you call my bluff, i ll go to the people.
cantor, you call my bluff, i ll go to the people. that s his attempt, let s see if it works. bret: ab does this sway, change the dynamic with seven days left to go? first of all ronald reagan, as everyone at this table knows, would not be able to win the republican nomination in the republican party of 2011, period this is one of the reasons that president obama continues to mention him. this is, if you look at polling from last week s national polling that came out on how vastly these numbers have moved on the debt ceiling question, i believe the president believes that the momentum is on his side. people are paying attention, worried about mutual funds and their mortgage they are afraid of default and they are going to respond to his call for a balanced approach. i think the president spoke 60 times during the health care crisis we saw it become less popular. we ve seen the same since july 1st, to today the president s approval ratings have dropped.
cantor, you call my bluff, i ll go to the people. that s his attempt, let s see if it works. bret: ab does this sway, change the dynamic with seven days left to go? first of all ronald reagan, as everyone at this table knows, would not be able to win the republican nomination in the republican party of 2011, period this is one of the reasons that president obama continues to mention him. this is, if you look at polling from last week s national polling that came out on how vastly these numbers have moved on the debt ceiling question, i believe the president believes that the momentum is on his side. people are paying attention, worried about mutual funds and their mortgage they are afraid of default and they are going to respond to his call for a balanced approach. i think the president spoke 60 times during the health care crisis we saw it become less popular. we ve seen the same since july 1st, to today the president s approval ratings have dropped. bret: thanks for joining u
night. here s charles krauthammer on you know, he s a very smart guy and has brilliant observations about what he saw the president say last night. he started his speech by blaming it all on bush. this is now 3 1/2 years in. and what was so interesting is that he thought he s talked about himself as being a new reagan. that s how he sees himself, the liberal reagan. reagan could do one thing that almost no modern president could do. he could go to the nation and sway an issue. this is obama thinking he s going to achieve that, i don t know if he s going to succeed or not but he spoke to the american people. remember what he told eric cantor, he called my bluff. i ll go to the people. that s his attempt. let s see if it works. thank you, charles. that was my third vote to appeal to independents is ronald reagan. this is a strategy on the democrats for the last six weeks or so to talk incessantly about ronald reagan.