mexico, you get medals. frankly, so many other countries are taking our business. in many cases, you re not for all these free trade agreements? i think you have to have smart people negotiate them. i think free trade is wonderful, but i like to use the word fair trade. you have people negotiate that probably never negotiated before. they re diplomats and not business people. we need very, very sharp business people. i could put people in that are so sharp that these other countries wouldn t have a chance. we would eat their lunch, but we don t have those people negotiating. we have people that are either not very smart or have no ability at business or whatever. we used to be the king and now we re like a dope. you re a big speaker at cpac. here is a look at some of the people and some of the highlights from last weekend. the president who believes by the shear force his personality he would be able to shape global events. my question now is the same question i had then.
felt as if their own leadership wasn tñi taking them seriously. how bad is this disconnect between leadership and the rank and file meaning you weren t able to do all these other things you guys have been wanting to do these last six weeks. people would call me up at home and say what s going on like i m in the room. i say i don t know, i watch msnbc and fox like everybody else. you can t have 535 people negotiating. i don t blame the leadership for having to try to find common ground and do a big deal. i m sorry the big deal didn t happen. the lesson to be learned from our leadership is that you need to listen to members. these new members ron johnson spent $9 million of his own money to come to washington. he s been arguing for a strategy for two months. and what we did is let the clock run out like the cr, like the lame duck. get your back up against the wall. and make irrational decisions and you don t have much to show for it. a lot of new members say you