excellent point, i think it helps both of the parties, but it helps the president the most, to work together on infrastructure, on daca, on welfare reform and fixing obamacare because it s only going to get worse now that the mandate has been repealed. it sort of puts everything out in the twilight zone, so we don t know what the sort of the economic impact of that is going to be. well so right we know that the projections from the experts are that yes, people won t have to buy this insurance, but premiums are probably going to go up an average of 10% for everyone else. alice to you, the president s former chief strategist, steve bannon, who clearly still has the president s ear, gave a rare interview to axios and called january make or break for the president. is the president going to take china on as strongly as he said he would during the campaign on trade? is he going to slap tariffs on
a rising tide lifts all boats. and when this economy picks up, when the obama economy picks up, guess what? president obama s rising tide will lift all boats. here s exactly that s reality. we talk a lot about rebranding a party. what a brand is in essence is a set of values. they re not changing their revalues, they re recasting them, repositioning them. that s what rebranding does. and the jindals of the world get it. jindal does get it. i said to jim demint, listen, i remember in 93 and 94 and richard, i know you remember this going back to the 1980s the intellectual power was all on the conservative side. we were the trendsetters. what john engler was doing up in michigan, what other reform-minded governors were doing across the country on health care reform, on welfare reform, the republicans, conservatives, controlled it. as i said to jim yesterday, there s been an anti-intellectual strain in this party for the past four, five,
anyone. a hard-hitting ad on mitt romney has his campaign in a tail spin. if people had been in massachusetts under governor romney s health care plan, they would have had health care. republicans are jumping all over the romney camp s response. that s the potential gold mine for the obamaites. we weigh in on the consequences of outsourcing, and nbc news political analyst howard fineman is here with the politics. president obama arrives in colorado to highlight romney s archaic stance on women s rights. my opponent has a different view. he said he would take the affordable care act and kill it dead. today, sandra fluke on the republican-led war on women. mitt romney has this guy hitting the president on welfare reform. you re calling mitt romney a liar? well, you seem shocked by it, yes. the washington post s e.j. dionne is here with the latest.
now, if you quote and try to identify with a democratic president who is no longer around, like fdr or harry truman or jfk you can get away with it. right, but bill clinton happens to be around. he has come along and said this isn t true. don t try to identify yourself with me. so i don t i get what they re trying to do. they re trying to suggest that obama wants to give money away to people who don t work. and you know, that s a political argument, but it has nothing to do with what obama did. is newt gingrich the best spokesperson for romney? it seems like he s taking on this assignment so he can get back in good if romney wins the white house because he was the one trashing him the most in the primaries. what do you make of this? it is smart. newt can come back in because he was the speaker when welfare reform passed. that theoretically gives him some standing to enter into this argument. and we haven t heard much from newt lately, so it s kind of a
you can get around with it. yeah. and bill clinton happens to be around and he said, wait main, this isn t true. don t try to identify yourself with me. so i don t i mean, i get what they are trying to do. they are trying to suggest that obama wants to give money away to people who don t work and that s a political argument but has nothing to do with what obama did. is newt gingrich the best spokesperson for romney? it seems like newt is taking on this assignment so he can get back in good if somehow romney wins the white house because he was the one trashing him the most during the primaries. what do you make of this? well, i think it is smart. newt can come back because he was a speaker when welfare reform passed so that theoretically gives him some standing to enter into this argument. and we haven t heard much from newt lately. so it s kind of a natural issue for him to jump in on. and ep doesn t have anything better. he called president obama the best food stamp presiden