talk about imgraduation but he s out to talk about small government, the american dream and american exceptionalism. i don t think this is about winning hispanics in the southwest. i think this is very specifically about florida. i think they believe that he has the capacity to turn cubans out to energize them and also turn out other hispanics in that key state. i don t think he plays with 80% of the hispanic population mexican, they have a very different immigration story and very different latino story that marco rubio, but i don t think he s out there for them. he s out there for mainstream conservatives. that s a very critical important point. part of where the 38 comes from if the math they are doing is an assessment of conservatives in florida and assume they can get a marco rubio pull on that and some assertion of pro-life which are older people. if you look at the numbers from 2008, young cuban americans in
approval of the debt limit increase, it s going to be over 16. greatest increase in the national debt in history. and it s about leadership. it s about what party believes in the american dream and american exceptionalism. and i think we re getting back in a period of malaise like jimmy carter. that s not what s going to we re going to talk about the economy in just a moment. but as a comparison do you worry, as a sitting governor, as chair of the governor s association, that the national republican party is fielding candidates who are ultimately have to be too extreme, and will lose the opportunity to retake the political center, which is ho presidential campaigns are won? no. because they re talking about jobs, spending, leadership, energy, they re talking about the kitchen table issues that people really care about. and so after this inner squad scrimmage is done over six, seven, eight months. of course there will be people beating each other up a little bit. but republicans h
look at this week. the president of coke saying it s easier to do business in china than it is in america. the president of google saying that all of this regulation from washington is stifling innovation. i don t think this is the right approach to be able to recapture the american dream. we ought to be more positive about what a great nation we ve got. and i don t hear that. i completely agree about the importance of being positive. i think this president s patriotism and enthusiasm about this country is beyond question. i think that we ve been asking the president to fixhe economy with one hand tied behind his back. we ve been saying, in effect, make it so the government has no role in regulating excesses on wall street, in trying to assure that multiple bottom lines that government is responsible for are adequately balanced. and that should you make investment, but not we re not going to give you any funds to do so. they did regulate wall street. look at dodd-frank that was p
tax to try to incent people to have more money to spend to create more jobs. at the same time it goes towards infrastructure in ways that republicans and democrats on a bipartisan basis have supported building our schools and fixing our roads. we can t get republicans to even give us a chance to vote. let me on a way when bill clinton was president only get democrats to put the bill forward. let me pick up on this. your column out tomorrow talks about the equivalency party movement on the left. what did we see over the weekend in lower manhattan and in brooklyn, this occupy wall street movement, demonstrations, arrests, is this does the president in a way need more of this? more activism on the left to say, we need a response to what we re seeing on the conservative side? because that s a big issue for him, whether people are going to have the same sort of enthusiasm. there s what s happening on wall street. there s a conference this week on the american dream,
the president of coke saying it s easier to do business in china than it is in america. the president of google saying that all of this regulation from washington is stifling innovation. i don t think this is the right approach to be able to recapture the american dream. we ought to be more positive about what a great nation we ve got. and i don t hear that. i completely agree about the importance of being positive. i think this president s patriotism and enthusiasm about this country is beyond question. i think that we ve been asking the president to fixhe economy with one hand tied behind his back. we ve been saying, in effect, make it so the government has no role in regulating excesses on wall street, in trying to assure that multiple bottom lines that government is responsible for are adequately balanced. and that should you make investment, but not we re not going to give you any funds to do so. they did regulate wall street. look at dodd-frank that was passed on the presid