election in a gold water lbj type 1964 because people don t pay attention that closely. i mean, you know, there are a lot of casual voters in this country. they pick up little dribs and drabs of things. talking points memo i went over. kennedy s position. reagan s position, santorum s position and then people can decide for themselves. no question that rick santorum is making the election not about the economy. but about a moralistic country. and that, right now, is what is on him. it s not about the economy. it s about a moral view of america and you just can t win that. no president in the history has ever been elected on that kind of a platform. i completely agree with you. santorum has this platform that deals with the economy and he has got some ideas that are kind of controversial, but they are interesting. they are about restoring the manufacturing base with tax preferences for manufacturing companies. there is a lively debate to be
he says the outline released by treasury moves in the right direction by lowering the tax rate but in the young direction by expanding tax preferences and failing to make our international tax system more competitive. lots details to fight out here between democrats and republicans in congress. shepard: thank you from the construction zone the at white house. thank you. 9 a homeowner fired a warning shot to stop a burglar. he did not fire at the burglar. he fired into the ground. he did not hit anyone. but the result of the thing is the burglar did not get away. they held him until the cops get here. what happens to the guy guy is ahead. [ female announcer ] feeling that flu all over your body?
coach anybody, but i ve got some views on it, and i ve tried to play some very small constructive role in the campaign. i wrote a book. i came out a few months ago, last week, accepted the assignment to speak for our party, after the president gave his state of the union, so my thoughts about how to present principles that i know governor romney and i share, it s out there if he wants to borrow from it. well, for one thing, you said in the state of the union, let me just play a little bit of that speech, where you talked about the balancing act that has to be required of everyone, given the economic challenges that we face. do we have that tape? everyone should contribute to our national recovery, including, of course, the most affluent among us. stop sending the wealthy benefits they do not need and stop providing them so many tax preferences that distort our economy and do little or nothing to foster growth. i mean, it was basically, and
routine business, passed through the senate. neither party has been blameless in these tactics. now both parties should put an end to it. for starters, i asked the senate to pass a simple rule that all judicial and public service nominations receive a simple up or down vote within 90 days. [ applause ] the executive branch also needs to change. too often it s inefficient, outdated, and remote. that s why i ve asked this congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so that our government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the american people. finally, none of this can happen unless we also lower the temperature in this town. we need to end the notion that the two parties must be locked in a perpetual campaign of mutual destruction, that politics is about clinging to rigid ideaologisologies instead building consensus around common sense ideas. i m a democrat, but i believe what republican abraham lincoln believed the governmen
trillion dollars a year by doing nothing and people are talking about let s do these things to give tax preferences or spend more money and just pay for it. look, we re in a deep hole. we can t just pay for things. we have to figure out how to have a plan to put our finances in order. look, i m a member of the come back america initiative board. i salute what the comptroller has done and is doing. you know, we haven t we act as if this is almost impossible. we ve had a number of suggestions and recommendations over the past several months, probably the most prominent being the simpson/bowles recommendations. i think which in many ways talk about changing the tax code but asking the wealthiest and those who are most fortunate, most blessed, to give up some of their entitlement benefits. we talk about it as if it s impossible to do. it can be done. the question is whether or not the to joe s point and mika s point is when will elected officials have the courage to do it? they had m