jared, thank you. and secretary solis, thank you. well watch monday as well as thursday, the president s address. and if the other side wants it fight and the president has to take to to the community, i started to tell you madam secretary, i would put my fighting clothes on. but i never took them off. happy labor day. happy labor day. don t forget labor with the labor day weekend. i agree with secretary solis. coming up, some used to think john boehner used to be a reasonable man held hostage by the tea party. but what if that s not true? what if he s the real problem? and rick perry, add good run so far. but can he handle the mama grizzly? sarah palin may have a few surprises in store for him this weekend. plus, the week bush and cheney came out of their bunkers. and put some things in perspective.
now, josh, let me lay out the week for you. all right. on the weekend you are going to have sarah palin doing whatever she does, but according to national reviews, she is going to take some unnamed shots at rick perry. then you have the president in detroit rising above your weekend of confusion, palin style, talking about labor and workers. then you come into wednesday night and you are going to have the republican debate where you have your candidates on the stage and the big question is, how romney and bachmann take on perry. perry is there for the first time. has to be some clashes. then the next night, the president rises above the storm fwen and talks about what americans want to hear about, jobs. don t you feel like maybe y all have tricked yourself into a jam here? i mean, i saw you playing with the calendar, but i think you
absolutely will be. it also has to have credibility and plaus built in normal times. that is as the secretary said, he needs to be able to go out to the nation and say, i didn t propose stuff off the map, off the reservation, crazy stuff that nobody got behind. i propose measure that in normal times, republicans would have gotten behind. a payroll tax, holiday. extending the unemployment insurance when it s 9%. we ve never failed to extend unemployment benefits with unemployment this high, especially long-term unemployment. infrastructure, the backlog of maintenance and schools. tell me why that s not bipartisan stuff. so she is exactly right. the secretary is exactly right. once he proposes a plan that meets those two criteria, it is big enough to move the needle on unemployment and a credible plan that ought to have bipartisan support, he s got a very strong program it fight for. secretary solis, the
budget priorities. . we look at real unemployment numbers. we know it s 9.1% but when you look at the real numbers, when you deal with people that have stopped looking for jobs or settle for part-time work, it s 16.2%. you hear in the passion of secretary solis, the president must be fired up. the country is saying, we want jobs. we want that even more than we want to see the continued debt reduction fight. where do we go to really deal with this as the president addresses the nation thursday night in your judgment, jared? well i think secretary solis, which i would secretary by the way, because i ve known her for a while, and she is a tireless fighter for jobs and working people, just laid out exactly the right roadmap. the president has, i think the jobs plan has two things to get right. it has to be big enough to move the needle on unemployment and from what i m hearing, it
pledges. they believe the policy is deeply flawed and unfair to immigrants who come to the u.s. and try to go through the proper legal challenges. what is going on here in this country? why are we violating the rule of law. why did i bother to go through six or seven years of this to be a permanent resident or citizen when you have people like secretary solis in the obama administration thumbing their nose at the law and the american worker? in addition to the agreement already signed, the countrys in central america, she says there are plans to enter to similar partnership with governments in southeast asia and the caribbean. in washington, shannon breem, fox news. chris: following up a story we had on the grapevine tuesday, the mare than county labor council in wisconsin has backed off its decision to exclude republican elected officials from its labor day parade. the mayor of wausau threatened to withhold city funds over the move. wisconsin has been the site of new labor battl