interrupt you here, but we re trying to figure out what s true, anecdotal and what s not, but both sides are cherry picking this information when they get it, trying to paint a better picture for the party. let me go back to bill clinton for a moment. what he says is this: anybody who has ever been there will tell you how hard it is to get a facts-based message out. is the message not getting out or is it the message america just doesn t want to hear? first of all, i think the message hasn t been getting out clearly and correctly since almost the beginning of the obama administration. when i ask people about, for example, the health care bill, they say well, the health care bill, i like a lot of the provisions, but it s going to add to the decifit. no it isn t. the cbo, nonpartisan, republicans rely on it, cbo says over the next 20 years, it will reduce the decifit by a trillion dollars. what happened is the democrats joined the obama administration, lost a spin war on stimulus, on h
republican senator, lincoln chaffe. so that has rattled feathers among mr. caprio. bill: and a democrat taking it from all sides, caprio. here are the loves he took from the republican in that race from rhode island. i really need to weigh in. this is one of two things. this is either a man who is not mature enough or doesn t possess the temperament to make good decisions and act like a potential governor, or it s a pet u lent little child reacting to not getting his own way. either way, he did not act appropriately. i differ from president obama in a lot of policy ways. i do. but i would never disrespect the president of the united states the way this man did. i m going to behave the way i want to behave at that state house. not behaving like a governor, frank. people in rhode island are hurting now, people are sitting in their homes and they don t know if they re
going to be able to pay their rent when it s due, pay the mortgage when it s due and if it tells someone to shove t. i m going to tell them to shove it because i m going to fight for rhode island every day when i m nup that state house. bill: that s a good little battle, huh? independent lincoln chaffe. calling the comments unfortunate, in the moderation party, using no moderation in its system, calling caprio a knuckle head. here s where we are in rhode island, a state that s been wracked with unemployment, caprio, 32 percent, chafee, 30, and robitaliee r robitaille, 20 percent. martha: i guess give him credit for saying i said it, he s not running away from having said it. we ll see how it works out for him, right? in the meantime there s been a lot of attention in the past couple of days to this comment that president obama made during a campaign event early they are week. listen to this. we ve got to have middle
i will tell you, though, for example, yesterday, he said that his political opponents were enemies, that latinos should vote against republicans because they re our enemies. this is not how in my opinion a president should be offering some way to say i m the president for all of america, i want to together, but republicans have to sit on the back of the bus and they take such offense when senator mcconnell suggests that republicans will want a republican nominee to win the presidency in 2012 and they re offended and they act like nobody else should be offended. the other thing is, he s going to have to realize that the statute of limitations on blaming others, including president bush, is over. let me give you just a couple of numbers. when obama took office, the unemployment rate was 7.6%. when democrats took office in 2006 bill: control of congress. right. what s it today, 9.6 percent. midterm elections are always about the president. i know they said it s not. it is.
military buildings, we told you about the shots fired at the pentagon last week, and, now, two other shootings, are connected to that same rifle. next. bill: also, president obama against the house republican leader john boehner, if democrats lose the house will they work together in 2011? we ll debate that fair and balance and what is on the line? is it the referendum on the white house policies? next. president barack obama: if we don t have strong leaders in congress, who are supportive of the agenda, who are supportive of moving the country forward, if instead we have got folks who want to move backwards, to the same failed policies that got us into the mess in the first place it will be difficult for me to keep making progress and do what folks want to see me do over the next two years. yeah, sometimes i worry. sometimes i worry.