by banning too much off shore drilling and helped to increase the price was gas which is a major issue in the reelection campaign. the president urged the menches - americans to go to the gulf and eat sea food and took a vacation to maine. critics say with unemployment at 9.8 percent more should have been done. if the white house has one regret they didn t persuade the american public they were focused on the laser on jobs. postelection, mr. obama pushed for a tax cut compromise and able to strike a deal with the republicans and signed it into law. biggest accomplishment for the president was a bipartisan tax deal in the lame duck session. he had a weak hand to play and lo and behold he got the tax
president s economic team is hoping. everyone claims that the tax cut will help the economy and be stimulative. it debate, christina, on certainty and uncertainty when it comes to the critics of what the president has done so far politically. mark tapscott now joins us, editorial page writer for washington examiner. let me go through a couple things. interest rates are near zero and the money supply is high and tax cut deal is done and the government is guaranteeing small business loans. sounds like the president has done a lot. what else can he do and are those the right things? i think a lot of the things that he s done already explain why the economy is not in better shape than it is. and, you know, christina, i have to take the exception to just termed it as a tax cut. we didn t cut taxes with the tax cut compromise, we decided to keep the present tax rates as they are for another two years. we didn t cut taxes, which we need to do. we didn t give businesses more certainly, w
the senate. i m joined from washington but deputy political director paul steinhauser. paul, thanks for coming in sunday night. let s look ahead to the new year and the new congress in a moment, but first this lame duck congress where nothing was going to happen. well, we had a flurry of votes there, and at the end who is getting credit for what was accomplished. i know we have new poll numbers. what do they reveal? well, a lot of political pundits saying it was a december to remember for president obama and why? because so many things were passed through that lame duck congress from the repeal of the don t ask, don t tell policy which prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military to the ratification of the approval of a major nuclear weapons treaty with russia, to that tax cut compromise, and our polls indicate americans feel the same way, that it was the president who real was the winner. take a look at this. you mentioned our national survey and this is from cnn
i m joined from washington but deputy political director paul steinhauser. paul, thanks for coming in sunday night. let s look ahead to the new year and the new congress in a moment, but first this lame duck congress where nothing was going to happen. well, we had a flurry of votes there, and at the end who is getting credit for what was accomplished. i know we have new poll numbers. what do they reveal? well, a lot of political pundits saying it was a december to remember for president obama and why? because so many things were passed through that lame duck congress from the repeal of the don t ask, don t tell policy which prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military to the ratification of the approval of a major nuclear weapons treaty with russia, to that tax cut compromise, and our polls indicate americans feel the same way, that it was the president who real was the winner. take a look at this. you mentioned our national survey and this is from cnn opinion rese
i m joined from washington by our deputy political director paul steinhauser. paul, thanks for coming in sunday night. let s look ahead to the new year and the new congress in a moment, but first this lame duck congress where nothing was going to happen. well, we had a flurry of votes there, and at the end who is getting credit for what was accomplished? i know we have new poll numbers. what do they reveal? well, a lot of political pundits saying it was a december to remember for president obama and why? because so many things were passed through that lame duck congress from the repeal of the don t ask, don t tell policy which prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military to the ratification of the approval of a major nuclear weapons treaty with russia, to that tax cut compromise, and our polls indicate americans feel the same way, that it was the president who really was the winner. take a look at this. you mentioned our national survey and this is from cnn opinion