broadly, the job of the president is to find the next same of good for a real majority and escapable of doing. let s look back at the republican party. how did they become a coalition of special interest forces? they really do look like the democratic party of the 70s and 80s where they seem to the leaders in washington can t control the special interest groups. and this is what happened to the democrats, labor, all of these special interest groups that were the folks in washington knew what the right way was to try to whip national elections, they couldn t quite do it because they were basically, they succumbed to their base the democratic party started with bill clint and obama successfully able to carry this over, never able to allow the base of the democratic party, special interest groups, to overtake the national message, the republican party the serious governing philosophy thatter is thfd country well but too many swing voters in the country, you hear the word conse
actually goes beyond who you elect to congress or the senate. they have got ted cruz, marco rubio and others now, but more than just the personality but the policies they pursue. think when journalists wry bri this campaigning the fun part will be all the moments we experienced together, the gaffes romney made, the 47%, the things obama said the first debate but the fundamental loss of this campaign probably took place in the republican primaries when they put out a group of people who were so far off the political cliff on i shalls that mattered to latinos, women and young people and is the new governing coalition and perhaps the fact that the economy got a little bit better is another fundamental fact but all these other things preoccupied us for some time. you can only, looking back, see those 20 debates that bushed everybody, including romney who became a moderate much too late to get that nomination. it is still striking. you have some 70% in the exit polls who believe the eco
the problem, there are too many republican leaders in congress. if you say the word latino and play a word association game with them, they would come back with illegal immigrant, not silver star winner, not doctor, not lawyer, not policeman, not fireman. this is an important part of our communityship. an important part of the future of the republican party and the republican party needs to get it together on its outreach to late team knows and it s good hear that lindsey graham and chuck shumer are going to start advancing comprehensive immigration reform again because we have to get this off the table, a political issue for the party and we also have to have a zero toll perhaps with the terrible taupe coming out of the talk radio universe and some of our leaders in congress who are serially disrespectful to this fastest growing democrat in the country. you have the likes of rush limbaugh taking to the radio on the i shall a you of immigration. congressman this is what he said on wedn
popular f there was one knock on petraeus you would hear, and this is usually the case when an outsider comes to the cia, bob would know this better that most, they are not that popular with the rank and file. morell, he s career guy, very popular, i wouldn t be surprised if that acting title goes away, how tenant got the job. you know this from the bush administration, petraeus tight with the bush administration, no, sir knot a lot of trust in the obama team of him, fear that he could run for president, not a great relationship between him and the president, seem to have been repaired, had to be part of the backdrop here, a certain lack of trust. well, general petraeus spent much of the last decade abroad, he hasser is thfd country very well. did the honorable thing. we have this tendency in washington to want to tear people down when they have made a mistake, when they have fallen a legitimate american hero, he has got great contributions to make in the future. he will clearly
sorts of money, which nobody really wants to increase revenues because it does have a negative, detrimental effect on the economy. but in fact, that s the part of the bargain that you have to do. and we re at historic lows on revenues. so i ve always agreed to it. i voted for the simpson-bowles, i ve been part of the gang of six, gang of eight. i agree that we have to go there, but how we go there is very important in terms of the incentives for capital investment in this country. and we have do it in a way that does not diminish that. let me turn quickly to lessons from this election and where things go beyond this negotiation over fiscal matters. senator schumer, immigration. are we going to get comprehensive immigration reform? it sounds like, if you listen to the house speaker, they ve had a chang of heart, they want a comprehensive plan. is there news to be made on this? yeah, i think so. senator graham and i have talked, and we have resuming the talks that were broken off two