alan colmes of the alan colmes show joins us., there are times i look at that job and think being the white house press secretary has got to be one of the toughest jobs out there, especially when things aren't going well. >> yeah. that's the liberal media for you, huh? going after barack obama. how dare he have a birthday party. shannon: mainstream media? >> they're the same thing -- shannon: i'll leave that for our viewers to decide. >> you know, come on. he shouldn't have a birthday party, she veterans shouldn't he fundraisers. by the way, he can walk and chew gum at the same time. he's doing a bunch of things to try to cut taxes too. he wants to renew the payroll tax cuts, he just came up with tax benefits for employers to give veterans jobs so, you know, he is actually working. shannon: yeah. and jay carney says he's meeting with a lot of folks, he's working with his advisers. he seems to have used a lot of arrows out of his quiver, not a whole lot left. it's good that the numbers today move inside a positive direction. every

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haven't they been through enough, alan colmes? >> have your way laura ingraham locked away in the rose garden so he could lose like jimmy carter did. few months. look, this is planned before, you know, all this campaign stuff. is he meeting the people and doing what he should be doing. if he did the opposite, you say why he is hiding in the white house. certain republicans doesn't have a problem mixing it up with people and talking with people with whom he disagrees and answering directly the question of the american people tea partiers question there, mondayca. >> line about terrorists. joe biden never said the word terrorist. >> laura: that's not what at least a few people in the room said. >> that's not true he never said it. >> laura: president goes on this bus tour. all presidents do during election season. they go on the tours and criticizing the right and left. however, the thing that we remember most i think so far is the fact that he was confronted by the tea party or how is it doing so far for him? is it achieving some o

alan colmes is host of the alan colmes show and my guest now. >> welcome back. megyn: thank you v..a pleasure to see you again. 70% say he has failed to solve our problems or made them worse. poll change. >> polls change all the time. megyn: over a year before the election, but if you're advising president obama, how do you get him to turn this around? >> >> i would say stay the course. my advice is, hey, did you see that republican debate last night? you're fine. megyn: you weren't threatened? is. >>59% don't blame obama for the economy and 61% say he inherited the economic problems from george west w. bush, so i can sw you polls that would mitigate -- megyn: i think you're right, but the thing that interested me more was the independent numbers because everybody looks at those. he's losing some support on the left, i'm sure you've seen that. >> but where are they going to go come election day? megyn: let me tell viewers what they say. this is a fox news poll, 31% of the independents approve of the job he's doing. in the july it was 44%. 55% of the job disapprove of the job he's do

leslie marshall and alan colmes. was the entire deal dumb. >> it certainly came off that wait a minute republicans, led by the tea partiers created a crisis that didn't have to create and then they take credit for solving the crisis that they created. when 18 times reagan, 17 times during bush raised the debt ceiling. never went through this before. never had a crisis. >> bill: why do 72% of americans think both parties at fault. >> they look at washington and see it as a problem. a whole problem. >> bill: you only see it as a republican problem. >> i believe in this particular case this was created by the right i can wingers who acted differently with this president than they did with any previous president when we continually raised the debt ceiling. >> bill: why do you think dennis kucinich wasn't branded a terrorist when he wouldn't compromise but the right wing were. >> gun imagery used by sarah palin and michele bachmann and whole bunch of right wingers because it's not one sided that kind of right wing violent

alan colmes of the alan colmes show and elizabeth mcdonald of the fox business network.ney told us at the top of the hour this is bad, what citigroup and jpmorgan are saying, they are reducing the growth forecast for our country pretty drastically and that would put us closer to another recession. business wise do we trust these guys? do they have a horse in the race? is there a reason not to believe them? >> that is a good question. i think we trust these guys. we had an historic crack up in the u.s. economy, we have an over leveraged economy and three bubbles occurring at same time. you would have a recession coming on balance within three or four years time. what they are also telling fox business, i talk to these guys all the time is that government spending is not necessarily the way out of it. there are other ways to get companies to create jobs. that is the deal. in other words, if you -- the idea being that the printing press and gunning the debt machine down in washingto washington d.c. if that was the way to go -- they are not necessarily saying that is the rig

let's bring in the gentleman alan colmes, host of the alan colmes radio show and tucker carlson, editoraller. fox news contributor. hi martha. >> hello. martha: striking, tucker this is very tight race between both of them and president obama. a lot of folks say you need to look state to state, not nationally at this point. >> that's exactly right. first republicans have to choose their nominee. i think at this stage the more interesting numbers are those that show rick perry far ahead of mitt romney. sort of all of a sudden out of nowhere. comes as surprise to a lot of people how soft some of the support from republicans for romney seems to have been. perry seems to scoop up all the tea party support floating out there. it coalesced behind him. if he continues to hold those voters, you know i think he will be a pretty formidable candidate against the president. martha: very interesting. romney has taken a very sort of, kind of back burner tactic so far against perry. there is a couple pieces out this morning, alan, that is because he believes the press is going after perry in many ways

here now fox news analyst alan colmes and monica crowley. so, it appears that mr.till has a pulse at this point. >> compare god jimmy carter. if we are drawing the analogy to carter and obama. actually, president obama would be lucky to be jimmy carter because his presidency has been so much worse. and by that i mean that carter was sort of a misguided center left kind of guy whose policies were all temporary. and, yes, they did lead to economic destruction, catastrophe in this country. high unemployment. high inflation. stagflation. high gas prices. they were temporary. when reagan came in shortly thereafter. he was able to institute policies that reversed all of those things. this guy's policies are much more permanent. and that's what makes them much more dangerous. >> bill: here is the deal with carter. you were just about, what 2 years old? >> embryo. >> bill: people had to wait in line for gas. that was it once that happened -- you remember that colmes because you were older. >> i was much younger at the time. >> i was in denver working for channel 7 out ther

your agenda project, alan colmes, barney frank have brought this country to economic ruin because you fail to understand that we are a capitalistic nation. and in that system, there are winners and there are losers. if you take all the incentive away from succeeding and start to give people entitlements you have what you have in england where is mine? give me more. and that's what's happening here s that what the stock market is telling you today our entitlement society our $14.5 trillion debt is no longer sustainable. yet, you want more spending. more. >> so, bill, if you look at the s&p downgrade and the negative outlook that they gave us, if you look at the base case scenario and the downside, all those factors are basically same. the only difference between the base scenario on what they based the downgrade and the upside, which is we'll get out of this and maybe get to a decent credit rating again the single only difference if you read that report is the ability to raise taxes on the wealthy and letting the bush tax cuts expire. >> bill: ability to. >> it's letting the bush tax c

here in the studio legendary alan colmes. hanging on a treerks colmes? would not use that language. i empathize where members of the black caucus might be coming from. a number of racist comments come out of tea party. members of congress have referred to the president as a tar baby. you have had a number. >> bill: who is that? >> a guy out of georgia, a republican congressman from georgia. >> bill: i haven't heard. that is that on tape? >> he actually compared and he apologized for it. >> and you had john lewis spit upon. i know conservatives say it wasn't on videotape. say it wasn't happened. n word was used. head of the georgia tea party.org used the "n" word. >> bill: justifying tarring, a whole organization based upon allegations. >> not what i'm saying. >> bill: that would be like somebody say look, you are a bad person because you are an american because look at what the americans did in this and this and this, and this. that's not fair. i don't know why and you are in this world, i'm not. in this far left world. >> far far left. >> bill: why thes

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here to analyze legendary alan colmes and monica crowley. what did you think of that spot?nothing says a party like a dancing birth control pack. that was a total insult to slumdog millionaire. bali thing. >> why would they pick india. >> i do not know. >> bill: birth control and they need the pills? >> bill: that's a pretty stretched kind of thing. >> on a serious note, this is the beginning of the horrors of obama care. two points about. this obama care is one huge freebie, right? so we're talking about the freebies here about free birth control, no deductible, no co-pays for any female consumer who wants birth control. the entire obama care law is a massive freebie. it's going to cost us trillions more than anybody even anticipated and this is just the beginning of it. the second point, bill, is that when all of this was being debated over a year and a half before they rammed this down the american people's throat. 00 obama administration said look not going to be in the business of making your medical and moral decisions for you. now here we are talking about birth cont

alan colmes, is with us, and tucker carlson. celebrate. are we on our way to recovery? we picking on on the wrong thing? >> the guy's birthday is going to come and go no matter what happens. it's fair to say fundraising is one economic activity he's good. he has con individual all these suck-ups to come to chicago and give $30,000. the economy is a disaster and the white house doesn't have a plan. the idea that we are going to pivot to jobs and thought created a single job is sad. bill: another pivot is a sprained ankle. is he entitled to his big party or is the white house. >> how dare he have a party. how dare he do anything but in the white house 24/7 focusing on jobs. this is pure partisan politics. is anybody attacking michele bachmann because she missed 40% of the vote of in congress since she has been out campaigning for president? do we attack bush for the years he spent at the ranch? this is partisanship at its worst. leave the guy alone. let's have a party. bill: $86 million? >> they are jealous because they can't raise that kind of money. >> nobody begrudges

alan colmes joins us, ari fleischer too.of the hour. ♪ rick: well, fox news is on the job hunt. the labor department reporting that hiring picked up a little bit last month, but one key part of the jobs market is not putting out help wanted signs. a new survey of small business owners finds their plans to administer workers very much on hold. adam houseley is live in marina dell ray, california. adam, small business seems like they have taken a major hit, right? >> reporter: yeah. in fact, there's a couple of surveys you talked about, rick, show a lot of pessimism in small business. in fact, the one that came out this week by the national federation of independent business said 14% of businesses laid off. we had a chance to talk with the california director about that survey. here's what he had to say. >> what we hear from small businesses every day is that they're overtaxed, they're overregulated, and they're overwhelmed by a government that keeps get anything the way of their ability to you. to grow. >> reporter: now, back