iran is getting nuclear weapons. i think that the reason the administration keeps setting up straw man arguments. you want our deal or you have war. it s because they don t have the ability to sell this. martha: you say when you look at their allies our allies in allies in the region that tells you all you need to know. why is this deal important? it has to be believable. the saudis have to believe it. the kuwaitis have to believe it. if they don t believe it, they are getting their own nukes. so far those countries said whatever iran gets, we get too. the great yeast fear since the dawfnt nuclear age is weapons in the hand of people who want to use them.
significant period of time. bill: you wonder why, and i wonder internally at the white house do you think they are in worse shape with their own base? is that a yes or no answer or more nuanced than that? more nuanced. i think they think this is effective. blaming somebody else for all the problems. going straight at your opponent with a negative campaign. creating straw man arguments, social darwinnism. give you one quick example. bill: quick. i want to get the whiteboard. go. obama on monday says he wants to cut everything. republican budget doesn t cut everything. it slows future growth of spending. and the president over the course of campaign will find it hard to depict the republican budget in deep cuts of existing levels of spending. bill: the lines are being drawn. absolutely. bill: this week in pennsylvania, rick santorum as of two days ago had an eight-point lead in pennsylvania. when you put all the polls together. today that lead is one point.
with the majority of both chambers and large ones at that and he owns these policies. reality is reality. he can talk about he can make straw man arguments, distort the republican philosophy, distort the cause of the economic crisis. the reality and the fact that is facing all americans today is 9.6% unemployment and the highest unemployment among the youth demographic in the history of counting such things. so yes, he gives a good speech, but as is always the case, and now we recognize this more, what we say in politics, he s a chinese dinner. you re hungry an hour later. erick erickson, redstate.com. mary is going to make the partisan rebuttal to the president there. that s what we expect. when the president says the republicans said no and no and no, on that ground, that s not a distortion from the president. that is what happened. the republicans said they disagreed and said no, no, no, because they had philosophical
republican party. for example, congressman paul ryan, a man you know very well closely and you work with him. he says regarding the takers remark from the president s address, i understand the president will continue to use straw man arguments, affix views to your political adversaries. they do not have in order to try and win an argument by default. that s the reaction to the president saying people are not takers in this country. mccain said the president should have reached out in the speech saying this is the eight inauguration i have been to and always there s been a portion of the speech where the president says i reach out my hand because we need to work together. that wasn t in this speech. so from immigration to the rights of those who are gay in our communities and in our neighborhood, in this country, to the other issues, as far as income inequality that the president said need to be addressed, how do you get this done? well, tamron, i must have heard a different speech th