this is not this is not leadership. so you do not believe, as the highest-ranking republican in the government, that this is your responsibility to lead on this issue? no, we elect a president to lead. we elect a president to lead? very true. but we only want him to lead, joan, if he s going to cut from programs that are going to help people if he s saying, fine, i m leading, we want revenue on the table, now we don t want him to lead. right. i agree with nancy pelossi. this has become a drive by congress. john boehner is always trying to pass the buck. he s always finding someone else to blame. and what he s really interested in is keeping his own job, not the jobs that are going to be lost through the sequester. it s getting frankly hard to watch at this point. ezera there s been a lot of
little fun. we did. yes. and oddly, the fun apparently is continuing, because we are still on the air. yes. long after we thought we wouldn t be. right. in the special cnn after dark edition. so gloria, in terms of tomorrow, i mean we will find mitt romney you mean today. today. a few hours from now, mitt romney will head it new hampshire as well as rick santorum. right, romney is going to new hampshire where he has a sizeable lead. he is clearly the favorite in new hampshire. he is going it say he s got the wind at his back. you are talking about, like 47%. right. we have a brand new poll that came out tonight. 30% ahead. 30% ahead, right? if you are mitt romney to nate, you are thinking, okay, rick santorum doesn t have a lot of national potential. ron paul doesn t have a lot of national potential. so if the top three if he could have picked the top three, these are the three would he have picked. in this order. certain lit fact that perry,
you know, if the debate becomes more about social issues does that then turn off other independent voters who might view otherwise? i don t believe the debate will be about social issues. not in new hampshire. it s possible by the time we get to south carolina. but, remember, you start getting back into these issues. you debate the social issues and you may have, again, 2008, romney s credibility came up. senator santorum is the pure conservative. but the problem for speaker gingrich when he makes this argument is romney campaign will come back and say speaker gingrich was for the individual mandate on health care, not a social issue, but an important issue for the tea party. you will replay, if not more mitt romney, for ron paul, newt gingrich on the couch with nancy pelossi. so this is not a clean cut contrast for speaker gingrich. yeah, the other part of this, i think, wolf, in new hampshire is whether santorum can gain traction. you saw in our own poll, he went from five to t