their hands up and say we don t care, but now the stakes are too high and they re engaging, and i think there s going to be a huge response from the middle of america. and what they want is the parties working together. they want everybody at the table, everything on the table, and they know it will take big, bold solutions and erybody s going to have to sacrifice. it s interesting, doris, one of the applause lines that mitt romney had that we played earlier was the idhat we got a lot of government lifers, a lot of people who have been in government a long time. they re not necessarily ones to lead us out of this mess, because the sparks, this is not something you said, but this is something you did, t it s the communication we know what this mean is going on, not in government, unfornately, because the penalties are just toohigh for that sort of spark creation. that seems to be a factor. i mean, i think there s something to that. there s something about a bureaucratic mtality,
government partner and labor partnership in our country. we can do that again, but we ve somehow made government out there and here we are. and the people who run for politics now hate government. what s the point? why do you want to go in and be a politician if you hate government? it doesn t make a sense to me! conservatives are unabashed about that point saying we ve had too much government, it s not the answer, it s part of the problem, you know, getting in touch with their inner ronald reagan and reviving tt and refreshing it. tom, what you have not seen are, i mean, liberals like the congresswoman here have embraced government and the role of vernment, but fr the prsident, an unwillingness to really stand up and say, hey, i put my hand up for government because government is actually part of the answer here. yeah, just to pick up on doris s point, and this is really the core argument of michael and my book, which is we didn t get here by accident as a great country. we won in
somehow made government out there and here we are. and the people who run for politics now hate government. what s the point? why do you want to go in and be a politician if you hate government? it doesn t make a sense to me! conservatives are unabashed about that point saying we ve had too much government, it s not the answer, it s part of the problem, you know, getting in touch with their inner ronald reagan and reviving tt and refreshing it. tom, what you have not seen are, i mean, liberals like the congresswoman here have embraced government and the role of vernment, but fr the prsident, an unwillingness to really stand up and say, hey, i put my hand up for government because government is actually part of the answer here. yeah, just to pick up on doris s point, and this is really the core argument of michael and my book, which is we didn t get here by accident as a great country. we won in every historical term. how did we win in every historical turn? because we had a formul
veteran of iraq and afghanistan, joseph kearns goodwin joins his mother doris to discuss how that day changed his life and how the attacks define his generation. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. labor day weekend marks the unfortunate end of summer and kicks off an intense, high-stakes political season. and if there is a headline that underscores what this campaign is all about, is saturday s lead news in the new york times zero jobgrowth latest bleak sign for the u.s. economy. this morning, as we near the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, america is taking stock of what the decade meant and what challenges the country now faces. the president this wk will yet again try to focus attention on jobs as the economy is stuck in slow growth. this week, america was reminded
average, for incumbent presidents, an average when they win, the consumer confidence index is 95.9%. when they lose, it s 78.4% the consumer nfidence index today is 55.7%. it s interesting you talk about that, also faith in adership. doris, this is a cartoon that we like this week from jimmy margulies from the record of hackensack, new jersey. of course, the president is visiting flood victims today. he in a boat beause ofhe flood zone with a copy of the polls in his hand, and he says i remember when i could walk on this water, which really symbolizes the fact that this was great expectations, and now there s a great amount of disappointment in the president, not just on the right, of course, but among his core supporters. i hope he s got enough sense of self to be able to save those cartoons. teddy roosevelt loved all of the terrible cartoons about m, put them all up on his wall. but i think the key thing right now, to pick up on what mark said, it s a political crisis as well