it. and as democratic congressman kim ryan says, it seems like the democrats can t get out of their own way. and joining us now is that congressman. tim ryan. democrat from ohio and u.s. senate candidate. great to see you again as a always. we really appreciate it and i d like to start on this note here. there is so much frustration right now. the president s approval rating, according to some polls, down around 33%. that is a death nel if you re the party trying to run for re-election. who is responsible for that? well, i think there is plenty of blame to go around, casey, but we ve got to get this thing back on track. even if it means taking smaller bites. i ve been traveling around ohio now for months, and there is a good deal of frustration that things aren t getting done. and we ve got even if we pick. let s get this tax cut done, right?
before a joint session of congress and he did get a lot of praise for that speech, which as was pointed out sort of went away relatively quickly. anderson, back to you. yeah, and notice the point gloria was making, what then dominates the news cycle. again, senator santorum was saying it s relatively short. what is the shelf life of this had? will the president be consistent? he was not consistent in the first year of deciding this is the most important thing to me. i will talk about it today, later today and tonight, and ignore the noise around him. that seems impossible to imagine. it does, his success in the second year of office, when look, he did not get a lot done. he got a tax cut done, but not as much as first year presidents normally get done. it s going take a lot of discipline and focus, because both parties are fractured. a lot of things do not have anything to do with president
though clearly these are good marks for him. he did get good grades a year ago. it wasn t a state of the union, it was an address before a joint session of congress. he did get a lot of praise for that speech, as dana points out, sort of went away relatively quickly. anderson, back to you. wolf, the point gloria was making earlier, that s the question in the coming days, what then dominates the news cycle? senator santorum was saying the half life of this is short. what s the shelf life? will the president be consistent? he was not consistent in his first year of deciding this is the most important thing to me so i m going to talk about it today, i m going to talk about it later today, i m going to talk about it tonight, i m going to talk about it tomorrow, and ignore all the noise around him, don t worry about arnold schwarzenegger it seems impossible to imagine. it does. his success in the second year of office, he didn t get a lot done. he got a tax cut done, but he didn
americans before the close of 2017? i mean, tremendous. at this point all the focus is supposed to be on tax reform. they are just crossing their fingers, hoping that this gets past the finish line. and it doesn t look like it s going to be easy. this is a president who right now is really concerned about maintaining the loyalty of his base. and you see things like releasing the supreme court justice list as an example of ways that they re looking kind of on the margins, on the sidelines, to continue to appeal to those people, and remind them, hey, we re still here, we re trying to get this tax cut done, we re trying to get this stuff past the finish line. if they don t deliver on the tax reform, on the tax cuts, i think that 2018 is going to be an incredibly difficult year for republicans. for our fellow aficionados of print journalism, our thanks to jill colvin, matthew nussbaum, appreciate you coming in at the end of another long week.
always have gorsuch. jill, how much stress is there in the west wing, speaking of deliverables, about delivering something, that the president signs something real for americans before the close of 2017? i mean, tremendous. at this point all the focus is supposed to be on tax reform. they are just crossing their fingers, hoping that this gets past the finish line. and it doesn t look like it s going to be easy. this is a president who right now is really concerned about maintaining the loyalty of his base. and you see things like releasing the supreme court justice list as an example of ways that they re looking kind of on the margins, on the sidelines, to continue to appeal to those people, and remind them, hey, we re still here, we re trying to get this tax cut done, we re trying to get this stuff past the finish line. if they don t deliver on the tax reform, on the tax cuts, i think that 2018 is going to be an incredibly difficult year for republicans. for our fellow aficionados