no more nra branded credit card, airlines. corporate activism can be good for business. it has some questioning motives. consumers love companies that take a stand. as the new york times op-ed says, people may prefer that their brands prove this love by identifying with favored social causes rather than the old fashion way of paying their workers a little bit more money. they want to be on the right side of life long brand affiliation. ed stack has to sit down with the board and run it by them. how long are the decisions made? they run the numbers. they look at the short-term loss and short-term publicity. some people hate it. others will love it. longer term and where they want to be on the side of history.
friendly seating plan at next week s state of the union address. senators chuck schumer and senator tom coburn are going to sit next to each other. the regular seating plan is republicans on one side, democrats on the other. they say they are going to be together when the president takes to the house floor. listen to this. that s symbolic, make it sets a tone and everything gets a little bit more civil. we believe in discourse in america, we believe in strenuous sis course. we don t sweep differences under the rug. tom and i have real differences. we can do it civilly. we disagree on a whole lot of stuff, he s always been a gentleman and civil. that s what people should follow. we ve had problems in the senate, that s been small, that always comes back when people are questioning motives. i think the people in the senate love this country. we have vast differences in how we believe what will be the best
rather than differences of ideology. and i think where we ve had problems in the senate, it s been small. but the fact is that always comes about when people are questioning motives. i think people in the senate love this country. we have vast differences in how we believe what will be the best course for our country, but i believe the question of motives is something that ought to be set aside. we don t have the lincoln-douglas debate. some of the problems in our country is we talk past each other, not to each other. chuck and i have been able to work on multiple bills, because we sit down, one on one, and work things out. and what we need to do is have more of that, not less of it. can i ask you we have about a minute left. i want to get a couple of issues in here and get your thoughts. one minute. about a minute. senator coburn, harry reid has said this is an exercise in
ideology. and i think where we ve had problems in the senate, it s been small. but the fact is that always comes about when people are questioning motives. i think people in the senate love this country. we have vast differences in how we believe what will be the best course for our country, but i believe the question of motives is something that ought to be set aside. we don t have the lincoln-douglas debate. some of the problems in our country is we talk past each other, not to each other. chuck and i have been able to work on multiple bills, because we sit down, one on one, and work things out. and what we need to do is have more of that, not less of it. can i ask you we have about a minute left. i want to get a couple of issues in here and get your thoughts. one minute. about a minute. senator coburn, harry reid has said this is an exercise in futility. you re a doctor, of course, and
how do you make this a moment that transcends this particular time when everybody has congresswoman giffords on the top of their mind? i think the key, david, is people go back to motive and what we can t question is our president s love for our country, chuck schumer s love for our country. and where we get in trouble is when we start looking at motives rather than differences of ideology. and i think where we ve had problems in the senate, it s been small. but the fact is that always comes about when people are questioning motives. i think people in the senate love this country. we have vast differences in how we believe what will be the best course for our country, but i believe the question of motives is something that ought to be set aside. we don t have the lincoln/douglas debate. some of the problems in our country is we talk past each other, not to each other. chuck and i have been able to work on multiple bills, because we sit down, one on one, and