strongest. that s what most people are saying. this is a two person race. rick perry, you can say he more than survived. romney, i thought wasn t quite flawless but very strong and was smart enough after perry did what he did social security, stopped the engagement to make sure social security would be the headline of the debate. romney went into this with some pressure on him and i thought he did quite well. what about rick perry? everybody looking at rick perry, i thought heas a bit clunky when it came to that social security answer. you can say it s a ponzi scheme, but then if you really want social security to survive for tens of millions of americans in this generation to the next, you present a cure. we never really heard that. he just kept saying it s a ponzi scheme. present the cure and reassure the recipients of social security it will be there for you. he didn t balance the rhetoric
i think the president what can we look for in terms of democrats and republicans to get meat to the bones of what you are saying that will cause the country and the business community to say something is going to get done? well, i think some of the measures we are talked about, i don t want to preview every element. i didn t want to ask you that. just out of curiosity. there are republicans supporting payroll tax holiday. this is what we had in place this year and should be extended. this puts an average of $1,000 in the pockets of the average american family each year to help them make ends meet. they spend that money. it helps small businesses so they can hire. it s critical. the infrastructure i talked about, it s vital not because it puts construction workers back to work, but helps build this nation up and make it more competitive. we need the best airports in the
it s rogers, come on. let s go back to what jay carney was talking about. how does the president make this speech more than another speech? how does he prevent it from being white noise? it sounds as if there s going to be a bold part to this, it s tone, not necessarily the policy itself. you know, which president obama comes in, conciliatory, frustrated or a feisty president obama. we have to remember, it isn t about tonight. i think it s over the next three week period. you know, before they ask for the joint session, i did have an administration official saying, look, we have to treat this restart and this push for jobs like a state of the union in the old ways that president s used to use state of the unions. what i mean is they would actually go around the country
supposedly small government governor make this choice? i don t think it s the sort of i hate cancer discourse that perry gives us. i don t think it s suddenly in this one moment, he looks at scientific evidence, he add jude indicates the question of public health and comes out with a decision that is to impose a government order on parents. it just it s so out of step with everything else he said, so i think the answer, though, isn t to sort of push him back into the corner of small government and parental rights, unless, of course, you re a parent who wants to terminate a pregnancy. not pushing him into that corner, but really asking about the kind of financial interests in relationship with merck and other large corporations. ron paul is capable of that kind of line questioning, but he didn t go there. and instead he really pushes perry to become more extreme. and that i think is distressing. you know, that and the kind of constant refrain that social
gore saying he created the internet. george bush created jobs at a faster rate than you did, governor. here we go. what was your take away? similar to what s been said around the table. last night, rick perry questioned global warming. the comment about ben bernanke. treasonous acts. people would treat him poorly if you come to texas. couple that last night with how romney stood firm. the fact he stood there and took it all made him look far more presidential. finally, huntsman looked good. this is mitt romney s race now. he needed this challenge. perry, they all say he s a tenacious, audacious tough campaigner. he s going to have to be to get