said we when referring to fox news? a couple of times. in the past, and when people have talked about networks having their guy out there in the politic al sector, you ve seen politicians try to separate themselves from that and say look, it s favorable coverage and you should be doing more of the same. for them to be saying we re going to be doing this, i have control over the debates. the president watches fox news and feels personally invested in that and talks to the hosts of fox news as he tries to see how various things will he do will play out in the general public. it seems like various points of tension there and maybe this is just him reasserting the i m with you guys, be with me sort of assessment. asawin, you ve written about how fox news cowers to the president. absolutely.
of a simpson-bowles plan comes out that deals with revenues, that deals with entitlements, that deals with spending cuts. we need to make this bipartisan. otherwise it will not work. neil: you are right on that what i notice about this, you are right there is enough blame do go around, but this president picked a debt commission and this president would left the co-chairman at the altar association to speak, and let him die on the vine. you know the power of the office and when you have both simpson and bowles saying they could have used him and they were disappointed in him, what? guest: if the president had gone and said, i m with you guys, you need to have some kind of republicans. neil: but he is on record as saying, i m for, even the stuff that hurts my party and he could call the republican s bluff. guest: he did, you remember
of this bill and show them that he s one of them, he s been with them this entire time, he s consistent on the issue and he s going to let them know he stands with them. this is where the fight is happening, at the supreme court. there s a reason mitt romney isn t here. mitt romney brals wrote this piece of legislation. it s very telling when you have a conservative running for president stop by the supreme court to say, hey, i m with you guys, this bill is wrong for the country, it takes away our freedoms and i stand with you while mitt romney isn t here. he can t b. he s not credible on the issue. and he cannot take this fight to barack obama in the fall. i want to show a clip from your campaign every day, the residents of this town must come to grips with the harsh reality that a rogue nation and sworn american enemy has become a nuclear threat. you have to love it when you break out the deep voice and the ads, the scary stephen king trailer movie thing s. this over the top
political organization is working on this very hard. they were silent on the tax bill. suppose but they re working very hard on this. super-man movies roll back history in time for 24 hours. super-man flies. exactly the point. if the left, the progressive left, would they had he said, i m with you guys, had he gone right to the mat with them, right through christmas and new years, no tax cut, the taxes going up next january, no dadt, no new s.t.a.r.t., no dream act, would they have said hooray or would they have blamed him for that? that s my question about critics per se. are they always critical? a lot of them. yeah. a lot of them. no matter what do you? some of them would have said that was good. of what i think would had been a pure victory but the time to go to the mat was before the election, frankly. nobody in the he didn t do many months. one other thing, chris is this, lots of signs that the economy is in fact improving now. that s some
super-man flies. exactly the point. if the left, the progressive left, would they had he said, i m with you guys, had he gone right to the mat with them, right through christmas and new years, no tax cut, the taxes going up next january, no dadt, no new s.t.a.r.t., no dream act, would they have said hooray or would they have blamed him for that? that s my question about critics per se. are they always critical? a lot of them. yeah. a lot of them. no matter what do you? some of them would have said that was good. of what i think would had been a pure victory but the time to go to the mat was before the election, frankly. nobody in the he didn t do many months. one other thing, chris is this, lots of signs that the economy is in fact improving now. that s some good news. on the top level not for the unemployed that the point. and the fact that when are the $2 trillion getting spent by corporate america that they re sitting on right now? that s why