create jobs by also rebuilding our infrastructure. a green bank to be able to reinvent our economy around renewable energy jobs. there is an enormous amount that can be done but not doing it and absolutely no plan at the moment that s going to get us out of where we are, mired in the mud when it comes to jobs. and last thing, become to politics for a second i m sure you are aware of the comments by president obama recently saying that the democrats need to buck up and get to the polls, even if they feel he could have done more. you certainly know what vice president said, to the left, stop whining. do you think this is an effective message? first of all, the people should go to the polls, two choices in most races and there s no question that for most working people, middle class people in this country, to put the republicans back in charge doing the same thing they did for the last eight years and brought the country to the brink of disaster would be a lousy
bruce debated like this tend not to change voters mind bus on the it seems like an issue washington can love but does it resonate at all with the electorate? worry about their own jobs, for example? if they were trying to energize liberals at this point, democratic base three weeks out this will resonate with some of them. not. doubt. let s talk about the expectations game. bizarre. major, you write this in the national journal, saying a little bit bizarre with with democrats, how many balloons do you order for a party celebrating nearly 40 house democratic losses? are confetti cannons an appropriate response to retaining the house majority by a slender margin of one, two, or three seats? for you, let s talk about the democrats, even if they hold on holding on feels like a victory. right. i mean it they want to have this there is this debit do we celebrate holding onto the house because that would be where they are now a victory. dozens of seats. losing upwards
washington and why people are so angry and in so much despair. no question about it you mention washington failing, you put president obama in that category as well as not doing enough on jobs or simply unable to do anything more than he has already done? congress could have brought the sense of urgency that was brought to saving wall street to saving main street. big solutions from across-the-board. the republicans want a payroll tax holiday, let s have that the democrats want a national infrastructure bank to really
months, this notion that republicans are having their campaigns funded by these nefarious outside groups. from the moment the citizens united case was decided, we heard them saying money and politics is going to be a major push for us it is not every day that the white house is giving us story ideas but this has been one they have been soliciting. now we hear, both the president and yesterday we talked to david plouffe, it is dangerous for democracy and this really resonate. i know the times we have been out on the campaign trail, listening to the president speak this is a line that democrats love and really working. democrats love it? democrats love it been responding, donating more to counter the force this is not about money so much as a look of disclosure that is the key issue here. money is always going to be sloshing around american politics, not going to stop no supreme court decision is going to dramatically at they re terrain. this is nondisclosed, is righters conditione
maybe only 37 or 36 or 35 net but that right now constitutes victory for house democrats dem david puff said yesterday if republicans don t run the table, take over the senate, the house and the big ticket governors, it s an absolute failure. come on, come on. you just love the democrats. they all love to set expectations for each other. briefing reporters and saying anything less than running the table is a joke for republicans. he said it with a straight face. democrats have done nothing else they have been able to manage down expectations very well. look, republicans are doing it, too, though. they are saying, woell, maybe w won t win or maybe we ll win by a narrow margin. i do think that we can see democrats hold on or lose by a few seats and say, well, we only lost by a few seats. that s victory. there are structural, financial, tactical reasons that they can hold the house and hold narrowly. i m not sure how much it will