by newt gingrich, rick perry and michelle bomb m michele bachmann. candidates are taking aim at each other while trying to rally the supporters, focusing on president obama. remember when he said if we let him borrow $787 billion, almost $1 trillion, that he would hold unemployment below 8%? it has not been below 8% since. i watch obama and congress today and i think this is like second graders. it is so childish. for the president s staff to announce he s now going to govern without congress. he poises the well routinely in washington all because he faces to his political advantage. he blames everybody but himself for any problems that occur
contrast. as that sinks in, i think the natural weight of the republican party for every ee lengs since 1964 will sink in. you have an idea of what you d like to do? i d like to do as best as i can do tomorrow night. whatever i do tomorrow night will be a victory. because i m still standing. this is the second time in a year that the last time it was in the media by you guys, this time not you personally, and this time it is paid media by romney. twice people tried to drive me out of the race. i m still here. you re taking a sharper tone today. yeah, the comments i heard this morning were outrageously unconstitutional. if these guys at the white house, i hope the white house press core will go ask them, are they serious about this? as i understand it, they said they were going to try to govern without the congress for the next year? that is technically impossible.
you ve got these guys crisscrossing the state counting the hours. what s the strategy here? reporter: this is it. suzanne, it s finally feeling like winter here in iowa. we finally got bab to subfreezing temperatures. yeah, what are the final closing arguments? we ve heard some already on cnn this morning. we heard mitt romney in dachb port, iowa, about an hour and a half ago. he was talking about some of the other rivals for the gop nomination. he was going after president obama as well. that has been a strategy of all of the candidates. we heard from newt gingrich an hour ago, the same message in independence, iowa, where he said the president wants to run the country without dealing with congress. that s a message they ve all said. they ve battled each other right now but they want to take president barak obama out in the election in november. rick santorum, you mentioned him. he s in polk city right around now with his first event of the day. santorum, as you mentioned, has been
so for now, what we re going to be seeing here in the new year we ve already been seeing this, is president obama doing a bit of waiting to see who ultimately the republican nominee will be and you ll see once that is obvious that then of course this is obvious, he will then take his complain for re-election into overdrive. meantime, the straetegy is the president doing more of that go-it-alone, putting out executive orders a and the foil will be congress, not necessarily republican candidates out there, suzanne. it will be congress as he kind of paints congress as not doing things toeea create jobs and he the economy. he ll be in cleveland, ohio, a very important state obviously this time of year. we ll see him there on wednesday as he delivers remarks on the topic. one of the things the last go-round with the iowa caucuses, then senator obama, he said if
i said, two weeks ago your reporter was asking me if i m getting out of the race. now all of a sudden you re saying i ve got to finish first. this is the craziness of the media. look, the people of iowa are going to decide. if they put us out there in one of the tickets punched out of iowa, that will give us a chance. obviously the better we can do, the better for us. we certainly appreciate all the help and support. anybody else? yes, sir, in the back. i am also one of the undecideds. two very quick questions for you if i may. one, if elected what would be your first executive order. two, will you support term limits for members of congress? i have supported term limits in the past. i ve got to tell you, i think from my perspective there are more urgent priorities for us to do with respect to a constitutional amendment. it would take a constitutional amendment. if i m going to focus my attention on something that will control federal spending and get