maybe romney envy perhaps. i m not sure what is more outrageous. obama usurping congress for more executive privilege or theattacking romney from the let and side of his mouth. bob: usurping congress is one thing because they don t do anything. what obama is doing is something you should rally around. streamline government and bring departments together. i m not sure what he said that was so wrong. he is trying streamline and make it work. as opposed to streamline, cut, rip it apart and send jobs overseas like romney does. eric: it sounded like he needs more executive privilege to power the pen. dana: you can see the campaign strategy. if we run against congress we need nuggets to throw out along the way. this was first brought up last january. year ago this month in the state of the union.
he said with or without congress i ll keep at it. it would be easier if congress helped. meaning he will do it no matter what. bleaking the law of the land breaking the law of the land. kimberly: that is the problem. these are desperate times because of the situation he did help create. it s not just past administrations. this works really well for romney. united states is begging and taking out a help wanted ad. commander-in-chief with business experience to get us out of this. he is well-suited and he can turn it around and play to his advantage. say i m not a guy to throw something up against the wall and see if it sticks. i know what to do. any concerns about romney will dissipate. eric: you said newt can t see his own hump. greg: i did say that. eric: you did.
administration to put free market on trial. as the wall street journal said, mr. romney s g.o.p. opponents are embarrassing themselves by seeking the obama line. eric: what do you think of that? dana: effective defense. one thing they talk about is he is going to have to talk for himself. but also effective to have others defend you. i pulled this out of the wall street journal. jonathan macy, yale law school professor, one thing he said is the private equity firm are equity investors. they don t get paid back until creditors are paid back. that s one thing that was an outrage of solyndra. they reengineered a deal to help the private equity people getting the government money to paid back first before the tax kimberly: got bonuses. greg: let me add. once sub explain what is bain it, it s really boring. people stop caring. this is not if the same realm
there are a lot of community activists that do good things for no way. eric: stop. we have don t want to do community act virgin islands right now listeislands activ. listen to charles krauthammer on this controversy. if the lead is slinking it s as a result of the bain issue. if it will bring him down in a republican, conservative state, imagine what it will do in a general election when there are independents and democrats who aren t hardly inclined toward capitalism in the first place. this is a challenge for romney. if he doesn t have a good answer and good way to deflect it and good story to tell, this is a warning. eric: let s see if his answer is good enough. listen to mitt romney. mitt romney helped create and ran a company that invested in struggling businesses, grew new ones and rebuilt old ones. creating thousands of jobs. those are the facts. we expected the obama
i m bret baier in washington. the big story here today is some republican conservatives to bash presidential candidate mitt romney for his record as a businessman. tonight on special report, mike emanuel looks at what romney detractors are saying, what the front runner is doing about it. john roberts talks with folks in south carolina about whether the attacks are hurting romney. the south carolina primary is a week from tomorrow. it is shifting. former mississippi governor haley barbour will join us live in a fox news national exclusive. we will talk about his decision to grant more than 200 pardons on his way out of office. a move receiving a lot of attention and chris schism in his state. president obama made his pitch to reduce the size of the federal government. ed henry looks at the politics behind that move. plus, late-breaking news on the downgrading of the number of countries credit rating.