i don t think so. because all the small businesses i talk to and, in fact, in all the surveys, one of their number one concerns is access to affordable health care. and in 2014, we re going to have exchanges. so imagine that instead of begging a broker for a quote on your insurance, you can go to a marketplace and have people bid on your business. this is one of the fundamental things that people are getting excited about as these exchanges are coming up. well, but we do hear from business owners, i m sure you do too, that are now contemplating after the election, i started certainly hearing from a lot in pensacola, i m going to have to keep people under 30 hours and if i keep people under 30 hours, so obama care doesn t apply to me. hiring part timers now. i m going to lose my best people, hiring part timers and it s only a matter of time before i go out of business and i can t afford the costs of what this new regulation puts on me. first of all, will you explain
there you go. what s up? nothing. hanging out. just hanging out. hanging out with the wife. we can talk about campbell bags. want to do that? i overheard the other day, she was planning our trip. great. christmas holidays we re going skiing and i overheard her planning to ship all the kids stuff ahead of time. i said isn t that kind of expensive to ship ahead i bet she said you re going to not as expensive as the stress associated with flying for three and a half hours wondering if our bags will be there. or having to replace everything. exactly. because dan kind of messed that up last christmas. we move on. we have a lot to talk about. what happened? in the election? no. why happened with the blue jays this past year? what happened in the election? what happened? lot of republicans went into election night thinking they were going to win. we heard mitt romney did and ann romney did. paul ryan. paul ryan did.
not the final puppet. it s a prototype. hello, want to talk politics because this is the place for politics. what s the spitting image willie, go to politico. i m tired. chief white house correspondent for politico is mike allen. he has a look at the play book. mike, please save us this morning. it was in his pants. oh, my gosh. cut the mike over here and lock in on mike allen. you guys you got the first sit down post election interview with obama campaign manager jim mess siena, a guy called a genius after the way the obama campaign won the election. he talked about how republicans were surprised democrats had methodical, kind of corporate style campaign. here s a little bit of that interview. the best example that i heard was, friend of mine was in wisconsin the week before the
for running for president as quickly and possible in negative terms. they re just all over this rubio thing. they want to control his public image in a negative way they did it this cycle too. they were after romney early on and doing it now. as a matter of just pure politics very effective because rubio s not full time thinking about running for president. he s out there dabbling. people on the left will be defining anyone who looks like they might be strong in four years. he dabbled pretty strongly. he went to iowa right after the election and his name s out front and he ought to be able to answer a question, how old is the earth. he should. if your name is a possibility in four years, any slip up like that, you re going to be they re going to be all over you. why is he so cautious? he is cautious to a fault. there were screwups during the campaign. he was overly cautious. romney s screw uplast week, he was overly cautioned. asked about science, he was overly cautious.
applying influential pressure on those who stand in the way, and there are such people on both sides, and particularly on the stronger side, which is the israeli, the problem is the prime minister and his foreign minister. just look at their record, look at what they re saying and look at what they re trying to do. so the contest is a serious challenge and will require perseverance, strategic imagination and a sense of the historical stake that s involved here. and i think only the president can do that. dan senor? i can t believe i m sitting here going to defend the obama administration. wouldn t do it. this is opposite day. i actually think the president s, dare i say, i ve been critical of hs his handling of the middle east and specifically the u.s. relationship with israel, i think he s handled this well. i completely reject this is commitly motivated or about american jewish vote or the election.