what i asked alan colmes last segment after we talked about the rhetoric and you heard president obama using straight shooter right after the son of a b and the nasty war language and everything. i guess you can use shooters now. you couldn't use a target if you're sarah palin. thinking about the landscape today, is he really the best democrat out there to lead this country out of this economic disaster? the most qualified? everyone in the country, every democrat leader. if you could switch him out right now, would you? >> no. i mean, i understand the fantasy and keep thinking the -- >> laura: i'm thinking that. >> i think a lot of people are thinking about hillary clinton. i've heard that batted around. but i haven't heard anybody else. remember, he's the president of the united states. even if you ask the national association of business economists, conservative economists do we need a tax hike, yes, but you'll never hear from a conservative. >> laura: i'm just thinking as a democrat, do you think he's working? >> i don't think he's having much success at the moment. i will say he go

so i, alan colmes failed and so did reagan. >> i have not failed in my analysis. >> you championed these. >> we'd be more progressive were it not for the blue dog democrats. >> we should have had more spending. >> we should have more spending, more investment, more stimulus. >> i don't know what to say. >> i know. neither do i. welcome to my world, o'reilley. great exple, it's the cautionary tale for the united states. to put it in perspective, the greg debt to gdp ratio is 150%. you know where we are? total u.s. debt, everything, 100% of gdp. >> we're creeping up to greece. >> we don't seriously cut to spending -- >> democrats don't want -- >> capitalistic society, we invest in capitalism, the money comes back to us. a bigger stimulus would have done it. >> i don't know. your track record over 15 years, i don't know if you can stand on that. >> next on the rundown, will this week's republican debate be the last stand for michelle bachman? we'll talk with her former campaign manager. and will walgreen's rehire a pharmacist it fired because he protectd himself against armed kbr ger, ed ro

alan colmes joins me with more details.he president would have welcomed. >> he will be giving a speak and roll out a whole bunch of initiatives. that the news we just got a few minutes ago. kelly: how might this impact what the president will say next thursday. >> perhaps there will be more eyes on it now that it's not competing with the republican debate. and maybe there will be an agreement and he's saying there will be a way to pay for it now that it's down the road. you have to create jobs and you have to spend money. it's parts after stimulus package. i think we needed a bigger stimulus package to begin with and you have to stimulate to create the jobs. what's their plan? you create jobs, you ingest in the economy, you get it back. people get jobs, they pay taxes. they start spending money and the cycle continues. >> this past thursday it white house came out with its own amall civils what's going on and stated these zier straits wstate straits may last until 2012. >> the big mistake they made two years ago was to make

alan colmes did this to me. your parents were killed in a tornado.: >>> he was a former marine discharged with a medical discharge because he a brain tumor and had that removed. i was the one working, being a maroon he was home taking care of -- become i maroon he was home taking care of new son when he accidentally dropped him that caused blindness that was another call that i got. nothing that i asked for, wanted or thought that i would be a mother of a special needs child what do you do with it? what do you do with that call? where do you go? who do you become. that's what my book is about. >> sean: we all get these calls. i got a call, 4:00 in the morning. phone rings at 4:00 in the morning. somebody close to my wife died. and i remember taking the call and then having to wake her up and tell her. this is something everybody goes through that's what i got out of the book. these days and moments come. the issue is how do we handle that? for you, you have an answer? >> what i ended up learning through writing my book is we are all one call away fro

alan colmes says these groups are not special interest. they represent the majority of americans. talking points disagrees. if you are speaking to hispanic americans, telling them you are going to push immigration, then you go over to the congressional black caucus and tell them you are going to target jobs for african-americans, and then you go to the unions telling them you are going to pass legislation that quote unquote shares the wealth that is special interest pandering, is it not? everyone expects the campaign of 2012, obviously already underway, to be one of the dirtiest in the nation's history. when you pit one american against another, rich against poor, union against taxpayer, you are going to get nasty stuff. there is going to be malice in the air. americans divided between secular progressives and traditionalists. now our incomes are going to separate us even further. not a good scenario in the land of the free. that's the memo. now for the top story sent toni. what about affluent americans who want to pay more in taxes. i last night i told you i wouldn't mind paying

alan colmes and monica crowley have a lot of thoughts on the subject.ow, i think that the essential point that americans have to understand and younger americans in particular is that there is a drastic difference between the attitude and i think you would admit this, colmes, of our parents and how this looked at their own lives and how they comported themselves than now because of the sense of the depression world war ii. korean war. 50s. everybody was basically conforming. now, look, it's like i want x, y and z. i'm going to do pretty much everything to get it a lot of things are venal, am i wrong? >> think back to the 1950s as you mentioned. i love lucy was a big show. inez and lucy had to sleep in spret beds. turn on any network in prime time which used to be the prime time hour and now it's soft porn. >> bill: lucy should have given desi a break once in a while. >> i trace it back to the 1960's counter culture. had you the. >> bill: 1960's. >> antiwar counter culture which changed the standards. so now you have got an everincreasing low standards t

struggle but i belief we are on the right side of the struggle join neeg to talk about this is alan colmesorning. good to see you. so alan. titanic struggle. are you surprised david axlerod is characterizing it that way? >> i think we are making much too much of this. of course, it's going to be a struggle. titantic is a word we can debate. but it will be a struggle. it -- you will have to convince people he deter ofs reelection. if he said it was going to be a cakewalk he would be called arrogant and taking things for granted. he also said he's confident they will be victorious. i don't think there is a big story here. of course, it will be a struggle and likely he will get reelected. >> i don't think david axlero axlerod. it goes to something. wait goes to is they don't want to be arrogant and overconfident. brad blakeman why would you want that to be your posture as a sitting president going into a reelection mode? >> some of the poll numbers are down, the economy isn't where they want it to be, and i think he accurately portrayed where we are. >> he's stating the obvious. he's lowering

alisyn: alan colmes is here as is tucker carlson, editor for "the daily caller" and a fox news contributor. this is a 59-point plan. let's put up for the viewers some of the most he sali enan partners. enan. plans. he also wants to hold china responsible for tricky currency practices. you like what you are hearing? >> he wants to fast track some trade agreement. this could be a will the more ambitious. it's not an economic conservative's dream. it's better than what we have now. he clearly knows economics. he has a record that shows that. this is a response to the electoral realities he's facing with perry in the race. romney is not out of the race. perry is a brand-new entrant. romney is a powerful contender for the nomination. this is a good start. alisyn: it sounds like music to the ears of many americans. >> businesses say it's not regulations causing lack of jobs. also capping spending, that doesn't create jobs. doing away with obama-care has nothing to do with creating jobs. the balanced budget amendment has nothing to do with creating jobs. why didn't he talk about his great success