i m happy. happy. happy. happy. happy. (together) happy. i love logistics. chip worked with senator ted kauffman, the delaware senator who wanted to break up the big banks tweets me to make the point was that the obama administration opposed brown kauffman. so this wasn t entirely at all a partisan thing. it came up against a lot of resistance in a lot of parties to break up the big banks. congresswoman waters, talk me down from my concern about the fact that if we get to a crisis, that basically size is the issue and everything is subsidiary to that. if we still have these big banks, even if we designate them, when the rubber hits the road and the crisis is at the door and everyone s hair is on
reasons he would make a terrible president, he is not an idiot and a ba foon. he can show up at a debate and attack. as joanne mentioned, the take away was big bird. big bird has a twitter account that feeds probably joanne s, definitely mine, not yours, the twitter account. that has been the take away. i would say the take away, i think the take away has been that romney s back in this. i mean, that was the take away for the 24 hours. i saw all of the oscar the grouch, that was all great, but i think the main take away was that romney s back in this. then we have the jobs numbers. the bad thing for the romney campaign is they only had 24 hours to really run with their new policy there. i want to talk about the jobs numbers because they have provoked a really interesting reaction. i also want to talk a little more about this idea of the president s brand and his like wilt and how central and important that s been throughout the career. [old english accent] safe driver,
good universe in which they are winning, they are the majority. barack obama was never elected president. acorn put him in there. i think that s the universal impulse. the question is whether it s being cultivated or not. i want to say one thing about the difficulties of figuring out how many jobs are really being created. it s not an easy thing as you were saying. one of the problems is that when you turn the economy from, you know, sort of normal growth to either a turning point going up or down, the statistics have a real difficulty. one of the reasons is that the surveys go to typically establish enterprises. right. but when you have the turning point you re creating new turning points. you re not going to survey those because you don t know where they are. and that s where the household survey picks up things that are not in the establishment survey. right. on the other hand, one of the real problems is that we have what you call seasonal
financial crusader of reform. he s right that some of the writers of dodd frank have yet to complete their work. that s been due almost entirely to republican destruction. take the very rule romney championed in the debate, the qualified mortgage rule. the agency charged with writing that rule is none other than the consumer financial protection bureau. it s been besieged by republicans who are trying to neuter it. in an unprecedented move, senate republicans wrote to president obama in april of last year promising to block the appointment of any director for the agency write beings, quote, we will not support the consideration of any nominee regardless of the party affiliation to the cfpb director until the structure is reformed. and in april of this year republicans proposed slashing more than half the agency s budget. the next month they voted to curtail most of its powers.
if you point to one of those cards he waives at the other two. we ve seen this before. a lot of good folks got fooled the first time. so it s all the more true that those reporting on this campaign have a duty to make sure voters are not fooled again. we can start by listening to romney himself. we re going to cut taxes on everyone across the country by 20%, including the top 1%. that was mitt romney before he found his inner bush. but hear me now. if mitt romney is elected president, taxes for the top 1% will be reduced. if i had mitt romney s money, i d even bet $10,000 on it. we ll see whether nobel prize win sner joe stiglitz or avik roy want to take that bet. begi. introducing a stunning work of technology.