tweets what is dan glickman talking about? how is 2.4 million more popular? the former congressman's credit, bill, he did agree with me it was a repudiation of the republican agenda this year. and bill w. also writes, very sad what senator john mccain has become. he had a real chance to become an elder statesman. instead, went right wing nut job. you have to do what you have to do to defeat those tea party challengers. herb clinker who not only has the coolest name wrote romney's fu47% comment proves the original 47% comment in boca was the only time he didn't lie. that was a pretty despicable thing romney did yesterday. i was feeling for him and it got washed away with his comments. we'll cover that later on in the show. here it is. victor agrees with me. exactly uproar about four americans dead in benghazi how about hundreds dying on our streets here, john mccain. republican swine writes john mccain has become a yard ornament loved by neighborhood dogs. not nice. neither is your name. obama, 25,000 secession petitions, looks up confederate states on wikiped

you are on a secretary glickman. caller: i have listened to the secretary saying things that i believe differ with what america is all about. many of the problems is individuals like yourself who have been a part of government. you have become like many of them, millionaires, to fold, threefold. for you to say folks should pay more of their fair share i think is code words that i hear the president and many others use. part of the problem is you do not want the real fair share, which is everybody pays the same thing. i am individual who was raised to be independent, to do the things that are necessary to become a worthy citizen of this country. when you talk about millionaires or billionaires', the 40% that the president is looking for starts at $250,000 a household. that is not fair to me or many others out there. when you know there are 40% who do not pay taxes -- i know many of them, whether family or friends -- we are talking about income tax. the income tax did not exist until the 16th amendment. it used to be i

, joel glickman, for hosting me today and giving me a great tour.here'd they go? stand up, stand up so everybody can see you guys. there they are. [cheers and applause] i just noticed we've got a couple outstanding members of congress here. we've got allyson schwartz. now, i just finished getting a tour of the kinects workshop. i have to say, it makes me wish that joel had invented this stuff a little sooner when i was a kid. back then you couldn't really build a roller coaster out of your erector set. and i also got a chance to meet some of the folks who have been working around the clock to keep up with the christmas rush, and that's a good thing. you know, these guys are santa's extra elves here. they manufacture almost 3,000 kinects pieces every minute, and every box that ends up on store shelves in 30 countries is stamped "made in america." and that's something to be proud of. [cheers and applause] that's something to be proud of. by the way, i hope the camera folks had a chance to look at some of the kinects, including that flag. and, you know

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. >> secretary glickman, what is the role of the center right now and who's listening to you? >> well, the center was made up by senators dole, daschle, mitchell and baker. two republicans, two democrats to work to see if we can have common ground to get the legislative bodies on issues that we could agree on. en we worked on agriculture, energy issues. a lot of things. the goal is to see if we can get people of both parties to sit down and to find ways to reach common ground on things that can actually move the legislative process forward. so we have senior fellows like myself and senator trent lott. senator bill frist. head of the joint chiefs. we have a lot of people from different backgrounds to try to work these problems out. >> secretary glickman representing the fourth congressional district for 18 years. he served from 19 a to 20001. he was the director at harvard's university j.f.k. school of government. he also served as chairman of the motion picture of america. >> hard to keep a job when you read my resume. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [c

on the speaking today, martin frost, dan glickman and former virginia congressman tom davis.his is just getting underway. >> there is no discussion of the congressional race, doesn't matter in america who is elected to congress? like, really hit me. like the cancer is yes. you know, as a former nine term house number i was troubled but i can understand because most of the media discussion concerned the presidential race. but i'm convinced the founding fathers were making it clear statement when they said that the first part of the organization of our government, the article i organization was congress. and, in fact, they i think implicitly felt in terms of trying to rebel against the executive authority that it was more important branch of the government, at the appointed time. i think it's a mistake for us to ignore these races as it deals with congress, regardless of who's elected president president. so we have this amazing election, interesting election on many parts of it, and i think the top of a current one day before the election is particularly relevant, particularly

my name is dan glickman. i am a senior fellow here. my colleague john fortier will introduce the panelists but i will ask the 10 questions about this election and not in any particular order or with priority. these were the questions that relate to both the congressional and presidential races. was a case of good democratic candidate, bad republican candidate, or the message? two. why was there no similar shellacking of republicans in the house races? outside spending on races set records but it did not seem to make much of a difference in the outcomes. was it all the waste of money? was this a status quo election? is there something more profound going on? was there and the mandate for anything coming out of this election? if there was or was not, what was the main message from the people in this country? if the country is split as the pundits say, income, gender, grumpy old men, class, income, or rural versus urban as you look at the map. are the demographic trends and changes reflect a revolutionary change in american politics? ron

. >> i will turner to the audience starting with dan glickman but california we have had a big shake up there in a new redistricting -- what are you watching in california? >> air seats that are in levels of contention. summer non-republican and democrat on democrat spending huge sums of money. as republican campaign chairman, california is always the toughest state force in a presidential race and eyes in eyes has been going into the presidency year, the turnout could hurt us. once you get and lend inland a little bit, california a little bit different at this point but that is something. it comes late and we want to make sure in we don't get her clock cleaned. i always get nervous about california. >> i advise pointed out to my friends at my home state of texas does not believe in referendum, recall or that good government stuff and i think we don't have term limits. i think that the fact that we have this crazy long california which was the result of the referendum i think is unfortunate and not good for the political process. >> the primary or the redistricting commission are bot

minus dan glickman. i'm a senior fellow here at the bipartisan policy center, recognize my former colleague in the house who came in, and so john, my colleague john fortier will introduce the panelists but i decided this morning taking a cue after both moses and david letterman i would ask the 10 questions that i would ask about this election, and not in any particular order, or in any priority but as i thought about the election, these were the questions, and they really do both a congressional in presidential races. one, the republicans to push lacking in the senate. was a case of good democratic candidates, bad republican candidates, or the message or the money, or all of the above? number two, why was there no similar shellacking of republicans in the house races? three, outside spending on races set records. but it did not seem to have made much of a difference in the outcomes. was at all a waste of money, or with out it with the outcomes have been materially different? number four, was this a statu

i want to thank michael, robert, and the investor, joe glickman for hosting me today and giving me areat tour. stand up so everybody can see you guys. [cheers and applause] there you go. we have a couple of the outstanding members of congress here. [cheers and applause] now, i'd just finished getting a tour of the workshop. i have to say it makes me wish that joel invented this stuff sooner when i was a kid. back then, you cannot build a roller coaster out of your erector set. i got a chance to meet some of the folks who have been working around the clock to keep up with the christmas rush. that is a good thing. these guys are santa's extra elves. they manufacture almost 3000 pieces every minute. every box that ends up on store shelves in 30 countries is stamped "made in america." that is something to be proud of. [cheers and applause] by the way, i hope the camera folks have a chance to take a look at some of it. including that flag. joe biden was in costco and he wanted to buy some of this stuff. [laughter] i told him he had too much work to do. i was not going to have him building