said, while the president is looking for common ground, john boehner says, we have buried common ground. he will vote on his number one priority and his number one priority is to be in opposition with president obama. no, it s not. you have had senators, rubio, jeff flake that have worked with democrats to come up with their own plan. now, did it die in the house? you had the house who wanted to take it step by step. i can t let you stand there and say the president has done all of this and congress has done nothing. and talking about the institution, we do have a state of our union which is an institution which our forefathers put together and planned that both the house and the senate and the white house is supposed to work together. look at ronald reagan and tip o neal. i can go down the line of presidents that have worked for the state of the union and the sake of the country to create a better america. there seems to be a presumption among voters, especially democratic voters,
republican s doing is nonsense. it start would the him getting greedy. he campaigns relentlessly d demonizing them and then he is shocked they don t want to work with him. it came out that ronald reagan has been the best president we have had in years and obama being the worst. he worked with tip o neal and they got things done behind the closed doors. i think both parties are guilty of this. ronald reagan got a lot of legislation passed. we cannot get a highway bill passed which would be a horrible hit if 700,000 people were out of jobs all of a sudden. i asked you to a big question
let s put on the screen how many presidents have used executive actions. reagan is twice the number of president obama in terms of using his executive power. and the entire reason he s doing that is because congress is refusing to act. i think the american people appreciate the fact that the president is not going to wait for congress to continue obstructing. he s going to take action under his constitutional authority. unlawful action. it s a frustrating thing to have a constitution, to have the rule of law. you know, the democrats no, listen. it is a pain. did you have a problem with ronald reagan using executive power. neither did tip o neal. you have to ask yourself. if the democrats who controlled the house for all eight years didn t think reagan was writing exec ty orders that were illegal maybe it s because reagan obeyed the law. john boehner couldn t even articulate what his problem was today. this is a political gimmick.
as small turnout presents opportunity for hard liner to expose anger towards washington? ding, ding, ding. i think that s far closer to it. this is cantor s loss, not the tea party s win. you couldn t get not one tea party group can point to this victory and say that was us, this is our win. the people who are pointing to it are radio hosts, television radio hosts and conservative right wing. but that frankly, this is a low turnout election, as you mentioned, and cantor maybe just didn t mend the fences at home. it looks like al gore in 2000 who couldn t win his own home state. i think he just didn t have the support he needed in that low turnout election. it s a given that as tip o neal said, all politics are local. it fits under a larger theme of gop war. republican leader in the house to lose the primary is a big, big deal. so that s why people use terms like tea party versus establishment. it fits. the fact that talk radio opposed
says, the obstructionist republicans. if obama wanted to do something large, the largest piece of legislation regan had passed, he did with tip o neal, tax reform that gave us a quarter century of economic expansion, increased our economy, and was extremely fair, increased fairness, appeals to the left and right. obama could stand up there tonight and say this is the year of tax reform. we re going to cut out all of the corporate loopholes, lower rates. it would be a triumph and help america. you won t hear a word about that. if he had tip o neal to work with. next, republicans are pushing very hard for tax reform, and obama has never responded. let s see it happen. next up, direction of the country. more on the state of the union. we have three panel segments. stick around. we asked people a question,