Joining us now from los angeles fox news analyst leslie marshall and from washington dana perino, also a contributor to fnc. dana, do you see a gulf between the president and the folks? unfortunately, yes. you know, earlier this week i was watching some footage from president obama when he was the candidate. and on the campaign trail. and you look at those speeches and you listen to them and you can understand why he won by such a substantial margin in november of 308. then you compare that to some of his speeches today. and it s almost like what happened to that other guy? where did he go? and part of it is that when he came to town he felt like he had a great mandate to do things on everybody s mind, jobs. what did they first get? a stimulus project that now even he admits he wasted on based on shovel ready projects that didn t exist. the ground mosque deal watt straw that broke the camel s back. i don t know how he gets his mojo back when it comes to being
Zero mosque. that s what lit the fuse. joining us now from los angeles fox news analyst leslie marshall and from washington dana perino, also a contributor to fnc. dana, do you see a gulf between the president and the folks? unfortunately, yes. you know, earlier this week i was watching some footage from president obama when he was the candidate. and on the campaign trail. and you look at those speeches and you listen to them and you can understand why he won by such a substantial margin in november of 308. then you compare that to some of his speeches today. and it s almost like what happened to that other guy? where did he go? and part of it is that when he came to town he felt like he had a great mandate to do things on everybody s mind, jobs. what did they first get? a stimulus project that now even he admits he wasted on based on shovel ready projects that didn t exist. the ground mosque deal watt
Stimulus. james inoff one of the most conservative members of the congress, he teamed up with barbara boxer, they tried to triple the infrastructure money in the initial stimulus. megyn: the president said if we pass that stimulus project, the money that we d keep employment to less than 8%. here we are at 9.6%. that was a mistake. of course the cbo which republicans think is great when it supports them. the cb orbg has said that the stimulus may have kept unemployment from rising by over a point and a half and that s the cbo, the nonpartisan cbo. i think the infrastructure part of the stimulus has been the most successful part and we have republicans who said we should have spent more money on infrastructure and i agree with them. it s the one that works. people can see the bridges being repaired, the roads being repaved, new projects going, water systems being street stphepbd. megyn: can they really? or do they just see a lot of their neighbors unemploy
Spending, another issue he is campaigning on big time. so where would he cut? that s what we asked. congressman pennsylvania has an idea of a statutory cap. i like that idea. you have to live within your means. once you live within your mines and then you start looking for places to cut. there are tremendous amounts of places to cut. i chuckle about what we do. we spend millions of dollars on science, promoting that we are putting money back into the economy. how about not putting up the signs. reporter: you heard that right. one of the ways he would cut is by taking down joe biden s signs. you have seen them all over the country, saying that this particular site, if it s a construction site is a stimulus project. why do we need that? that s one place to cut with regard to federal spending but this race is fascinating because, as people who have been watching us all morning and have been paying attention to this
He s trying to ridicule the obama administration s stimulus project, the high-speed rail line. bater re-tweeted a message from a brickm. then there s a youtube link yes. in response to a high-speed train program, a nearly all-black group of people dancing to a song called, come on, ride it, the train. when democrats in the black caucus descended on her racially twinged re-tweet, she deleted it and promptly made it worse by offering this explanation. i apologize. was just alerted my rt, retweet, wasn t what i thought it was. here s what it was i thought i was resending, et cetera. but the first person who tweeted