here. this imrid gridlock in washington is not an excuse for inaction. megyn: joining me now, simon rosenberg and mike gallagher who is also a fox news contributor. all right, guys, thank you so much for being here. we can t wait may be fine in principle, it s not fine if president is doing things prohibited by the separations of powers. i mean, there s a reason we have three branches of government, so this comes down to whether he s overstepped that line here. mike, i ll start with you. has he? well, i mean, this is not the first time a president has done these kinds of recess appointments. in fact, he hasn t done as many as george w. bush did. so, you know, i m going to be fair and balanced here in our fox news tradition and point out that this isn t unique to president obama. having said that, you know, the president has some pretty powerful enemies over these kinds of appointments, particularly the one with cordray. when you ve got the powerful u.s. chamber of commerce that exp
gingrich to deliver him. are you kidding? kimberly: but what about the fact that new hampshire may be we ve been there, done that with romney and perhaps they will be excited about somebody new coming in? he might shave some points from romney and gain some of that momentum. romney didn t win new hampshire last time around. the question is does he have the money or the time? does he have time to raise the money. but the eric: time to set up the apparatus. andrea: the blue collar workers that he has experience wooing, the guys that vote with the lunch lunchpails. dana: santorum hasn t been the front runner yet so no one has come after him. eric: governor palin had wise words for conservatives. listen to the former governor on the ron paul phenomena. the worst thing that the g.o.p. machine can do is marginalize ron paul and his supporters. they have heard what ron paul has said about our need to do
washington is not an excuse for inaction. megyn: joining me now, simon rosenberg and mike gallagher who is also a fox news contributor. all right, guys, thank you so much for being here. we can t wait may be fine in principle, it s not fine if president is doing things prohibited by the separations of powers. i mean, there s a reason we have three branches of government, so this comes down to whether he s overstepped that line here. mike, i ll start with you. has he? well, i mean, this is not the first time a president has done these kinds of recess appointments. in fact, he hasn t done as many as george w. bush did. so, you know, i m going to be fair and balanced here in our fox news tradition and point out that this isn t unique to president obama. having said that, you know, the president has some pretty powerful enemies over these kinds of appointments, particularly the one with cordray. when you ve got the powerful u.s. chamber of commerce that expresses disappointment in what t
10 or 12 points in new hampshire right now. he has to go out and be aggressive. he can t wait for newt gingrich to deliver him. are you kidding? kimberly: but what about the fact that new hampshire may be we ve been there, done that with romney and perhaps they will be excited about somebody new coming in? he might shave some points from romney and gain some of that momentum. romney didn t win new hampshire last time around. the question is does he have the money or the time? does he have time to raise the money. but the eric: time to set up the apparatus. andrea: the blue collar workers that he has experience wooing, the guys that vote with the lunch lunchpails. dana: santorum hasn t been the front runner yet so no one has come after him. eric: governor palin had wise words for conservatives. listen to the former governor on the ron paul phenomena. the worst thing that the g.o.p. machine can do is
making businesses uncompetitive, it s requiring an enormous amount of paperwork and time away from productive things like making a profit. megyn: chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of power play on foxnews.com live. what a shift now. it s not that santorum hasn t been targeting president obama out on the campaign trail, but it is now sort of a mitt romney approach, if you will, for him it appears. focused like a laser on president obama, that s what romney s been doing, act like the principletive nominee and make the best case you can against the sitting president. well, and the other thing that s significant, that s an economic message, not a socially conservative message. in iowa he banded together the social conservatives who were primarily interested in social issues and saying we ve got to stop ron paul, and you ve got to make me the guy to go up against mitt romney who they think is not tough enough on those questions. now that he s broke into th