he talked about the efforts to change entitlement reform and tax reform and really get the country moving again. we ll bring back our panel, juan williams, columnist for the hill, nina eastton, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. when reagan was inaugurated he said within ten minutes government isn t the solution, it s the problem. and that was the theme of the rubio speech and set sort of ideological contrast. obama is a man of government, he represents the party of government of the every issue he raised in his speech had a government solution, a program, a partnership, you know, some new initiative spending essentially and i think what rubio did, he took it on as a sort of if i have s philosophical level and says it s not the way our country works, it comes from the private sector and made that case point by point. i m not sure it worked as
change entitlement reform and tax reform and really get the country moving again. we ll bring back our panel, juan williams, columnist for the hill, nina eastton, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. when reagan was inaugurated he said within ten minutes government isn t the solution, it s the problem. and that was the theme of the rubio speech and set sort of ideological contrast. obama is a man of government, he represents the party of government of the every issue he raised in his speech had a government solution, a program, a partnership, you know, some new initiative spending essentially and i think what rubio did, he took it on as a sort of if i have s philosophical level and says it s not the way our country works, it comes from the private sector and made that case point by point. i m not sure it worked as rebuttal.
they are just looking at it. are pop ticks and the politics and policy are converging here in an may amazing lagerhead way. i agree the republican party needs to reach out to hispanics and mynarity a change the narrative. that is self-help, come here, start yourself entrepreneurialism should be the republican message and we are on the wrong side of it. that is true. but the same time, this sort of comprehensive approach that tries to do everything invariably becomes a governmentcentric of doing things. truly john mccain still bill. if government isn t the solution, there is no solution. the best immigration policy is have one. we have none. there are better ways to go.
boehner says from labor day of 2011, he was very much running for president, pushing the liberal agenda. he was the protector of the middle class. and it is continued up through his re-election and now we see it in his inaugural address, very little talk about common ground. you know he basically dismissed his republican opposition as absolutism, as name-calling. i think you will see a very aggressive, assert tiff push by this president. in a sense, there is nothing wrong with that. there are other presidents that tried to do the same thing. look at ronald reagan in 1981 said, government isn t the solution, government is the problem. i think this president takes a very different view that government and government programs are the solution. and you will see him try to be just as transformational in his final four years as ronald reagan was. martha: that is exactly what we re talking about. charles: krauthamer was talking about that as well. reagan and obama have
speaking of conditions, on the condition the supreme court knocks down all or part of the law, the speaker of the house, john boehner sent his members a memo warning them not to spike the ball if that should happen. and republicans are looking ahead at a broad plan to move forward. because all along, we ve said real problems, this sinlt the solution. if this goes away, we still have to start dealing with the problem. all right. now, the main question the court is considering is that if it s constitutional to force americans to purchase mandatory health care insurance or face a fine if they fail to do so. whatever the court decides, it could have a sweeping impact on the presidential race. another matter that the court is expected to rule on this week, the arizona immigration law. the highest court in the land will decide if the controversial anti-immigration law is constitutional. that law, of course, allows police officers to check immigration status during traffic stops and mak