business owners throughout the gulf. that s not the tragedy. the tragedy is if they didn t get compensated. so the leadership that we ve gotten from barton and boehner. sometimes i wonder if that no button is just stuck in congress. he s not passed the bs yet. it seems like let me tell you about chicago. i thought for years he said there is no opponents and no alternative and a daily machine and trouble makers out there. now he s out there naming republicans hoping as you said a minute ago that people will vote against them. they have to vote against somebody. if there s one thing more unpopular than washington politicians it s wall street and big oil. republicans benefit from the hatred of incumbency.
now there are a lot of republican incumbents out there. right. there are incumbents or former incumbents who are creatures of washington that they can run against. it will be hand to hand combat in these places. he s framing every race. he ll have to name them by name. he wants to say these people are out of mainstream. their crazy. they make crazy comments like ant ate the economy and apologizing to bp and sharon engel in nevada and ron paul in kentucky. they re all crazy and out of the mainstre mainstream. a lot of these people are incumbents and the anti-incumbent mood is out there so big that republicans have to be careful. there s a band of republican burgers just townspeople and business guys from main street. boehner, mcconnell, cantor, they re not right wing republicans but republicans in power. he s now settling on them.
he figures they can knock off people like sharon engel and other whack jobs out there but he has to go after mainstream guys. that s what he s doing. big names. he s advertising them. the old seat in illinois where you have a troubled democrat running against an incumbent who makes up stuff about his own resume. it s washington against nonwashington character. he s doing well precisely because he s framing this as the same old politics that he s running against. that s the single narrow track that they have to survive this election. obama has to be very careful because i agree with richard he wants to be above it all and be the outsider but to the extent he starts sounding like an old fashioned democrat and old fashioned rank and file old politics democrat he loses the magic he has left. coming up, former governor jerry brown running for governor of california neck and neck with meg whitman. he has a lot of campaign out
work. you know, i may disagree here. i think there may be a new barack obama, used to my favorite line was why did the cavalry come out to fight the indians, the answer is because they re cavalry. they fight on horse back. he s enjoying this, he s dishing some out going after the other side. especially when he can say it s the same old politics. remember the mood at the omit, let s kick the bums out, we ll reform washington, he still wants to be the guy that s above and beyond and outside washington. so he can say that the other side is playing the same old games and he thinks his side is playing the same old games. they re both using this line that everybody s spending money like a drunken sailor. there s nono. this is what franklin
but they are creatures of washington. that s why it s going to be hand-to-hand combat in these places. and he s framing every race in terms of this. he s going after the b s. one he wants to say these people are out of the mainstream. they re crazy. they make crazy comments like the about ate the economy and apologizing to the bp and sharron angle in nevada and ron paul in kentucky. they re all crazy and out of the mainstream. the other thing is what richard said. a lot of these people are incumbents, too. the republicans have to this be careful. there s a band of republican burgers. the business guys from main street. boehner, mcconnell, rick canter. they re not right-wing republicans, but they re the republicans in power. he s now settling own them. he figures they can knock off sharron angle and a couple other whack jobs out there, but he s got to go after the big name guys. big names.