dad. do you think if your dad was to face off against obama, positivity would be the name of the game and he wouldn t go negative. dad is clear, and you saw it with ronald reagan. people want a solution, optimistic vision of the country. we believe in america. i believe in america incredibly. we believe every american should have opportunity, we should all work hard, do well. if we work hard, do well, we can work together to do incredible things. dad did that when he was speaker with president bill clinton, and i think the american people were going to hear and respond to that positive message. jackie, thanks for your time. positive, genuine answers. i appreciate your time. thank you, thomas. in one hour, president obama is expected to come to the white house briefing room to talk about passage of the payroll tax cut bill. see his comments live on msnbc,
republican in washington. house speaker john boehner. roll call newspaper reporting the payroll tax cut fiasco, has raised significant questions about john boehner s ability to lead his conference for the long term. listen to this. the number one question that will be debated over the eggnog at hill centric holiday parties is whether john boehner will be able to continue excuse me, will be able to save his speakership for more than a few more months in light of his horrible miscalculation on the payroll tax bill and then his desperate flip-flop to get in front of the troops that were marching in opposite direction from where he said they needed to go. wow. bob corker of tennessee is turning out to be the personification of the republican party s political and policy incoherence on this. here s senator corker on cnbc this morning calling on house republicans to just pass the darn payroll tax cut bill. and remember, bob corker is also a republican. are republicans getting
roll call newspaper reporting the payroll tax cut fiasco, has raised significant questions about john boehner s ability to lead his conference for the long term. listen to this. the number one question that will be debated over the eggnog at hill centric holiday parties is whether john boehner will be able to continue excuse me, will be able to save his speakership for more than a few more months in light of his horrible miscalculation on the payroll tax bill and then his desperate flip-flop to get in front of the troops that were marching in opposite direction from where he said they needed to go. wow. bob corker of tennessee is turning out to be the personification of the republican party s political and policy incoherence on this. here s senator corker on cnbc this morning calling on house republicans to just pass the darn payroll tax cut bill. and remember, bob corker is also a republican. are republicans getting killed right now in public opinion? there is no question. b
now being trained on the top republican in washington. house speaker john boehner. roll call newspaper reporting the payroll tax cut fiasco, has raised significant questions about john boehner s ability to lead his conference for the long term. listen to this. the number one question that will be debated over the eggnog at hill centric holiday parties is whether john boehner will be able to continue excuse me, will be able to save his speakership for more than a few more months in light of his horrible miscalculation on the payroll tax bill and then his desperate flip-flop to get in front of the troops that were marching in opposite direction from where he said they needed to go. wow. bob corker of tennessee is turning out to be the personification of the republican party s political and policy incoherence on this. here s senator corker on cnbc this morning calling on house republicans to just pass the darn payroll tax cut bill. and remember, bob corker is also a republican.
urging again a vote on the floor on the senate approved payroll tax cut bill. right now that is not going to happen. we expect something to happen at noon. we ll be watching all of that on msnbc. voters in the first nominating contest live in a state with bustling factories and a 6% unemployment rate. we re talking about iowa. 100,000 caucus goers will crown the first 2012 winner. but they seldom pick the eventual nominee. despite its track record iowa is where it is at right now. some fear if it gets the nation s winner wrong again, it could lose some of its clout. matt schultz is iowa s secretary of state. good day to you. good morning, richard. there is a statistic i want to show you here. i eluded to it just now in. 2008 drks 114,000 republicans went to caucuses. if you compare that to the nearly 31 million registered voters republican voters in 29 states, you can see how