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Deputy assistant to president george w. bush and dick harputlin is a democratic party chair. brad, what s the answer to that, do you believe this former governor who s now run to go get his old job back that i was planning to be gone a long time ago, it has nothing to do with the fact that i don t want to be seen with president obama. and they have a nice bridge in new york that dick might want to buy. a year and a half ago, democrats were calling all over themselves to get close to the president, touch the great president, be in the sail picture as the and these are the very same people running from this president. why? the great campaigner can t govern. the stimulus is failure, immigration, the great uniter has pit state against state, business against business. look, guantanamo is still open. all the promises this president made in his first year in office have come to be total failures and that s why they re running away from this president. megyn: he used to be the hottest, dra ....
Now royaling local politicians and could go well beyond new york city come november. fred dicker is a new york post state editor and joins us via skype. thank you very much for being here with us. you know, this now, you ve got both republican candidates for governor weighing in on this, making this a key issue. virtually every politician in new york has weighed in on it, mayor bloomberg is upset at those who don t think it s appropriate. how is this shaking out as a political matter for the politicians on both sides of the aisle? well, everybody is being asked to take sides, you re absolutely right about that, megyn. it s a divisive issue and polarizing issue but whether it s going to be decisive issue in an election remains to be seen. the two republican can doints for governor in the primary were against this proposal, andrew cuomo, the attorney general and candidate for governor is in favor of it. it remains to be seen whether he adhere toss that decision as more information come ....
Any kind of articulation of a vision, a policy, or any kind of platform looked to win decisively in the house. and it s because of missteps like these by the obama administration, particularly on illegal immigration and frankly continuing to game the american people rather than enforcing the border. megyn: it is interesting to hear more republicans speaking out on this issue, for example, this weekend senator jon kyl speak out against so - so-called anchor babies and i m not talking about my son yates, but babies who according to our constitution have automatic citizenship if you re born in this country and now kyl and lindsey graham, one of the only republicans working with the democrats on so-called immigration reform is also saying we may need to modify the constitution on this now. you ve got two senators named kyl and graham who are ....
he stopped the obama agenda? mitch mcconnell is running the country, is that what you re suggesting? you guys run everything, you have the house, you have the he is not look, he has stopped major pieces of legislation by putting anonymous holds on them in a procedural come on! no, no, no. no, no. a, b, no one has given this president he s given him 18 months. it took eight years for george bush to screw this country up, we re not going to turn it around in 18 months. the captain of the exxon valdez, in an intoxicated condition ran a ship on ground and des spoiled alaska. twenty-five years later we re cleaning tup and george bush was a lot more impaired and damaged than that guy. megyn: you said that last week. brad, let me ask you i m going to say it again do you want me to say it again? megyn: it s brad, ....
Mitch mcconnell, has he stopped president obama s agenda or is it that they have failed to stop it that s hurting the president? in other words, the legislation that he has gotten through, is that is that what is hurting him with voters and making some democrats appear to not to want to campaign with him in the tight district? ted: reason, megyn, this president doesn t want the candidates don t want to be seen with this president is quite obvious. he s a failure on the economy. megyn: how is he a failure? he had health care pass through, the stimulus by his own standard, he said if the stimulus were passed, that unemployment would not exceed 8 percent. it s still hovering at 10 percent. and in the urban areas, it s double that. look, he hasn t tackled immigration like he said he would do in the first year. instead, he s pitting state against state and individual against individual. the president has not come out against boycott, he said look, people are free to do what they want. ....