he mentioned john maynard, the home state of that individual. >> the republican who thinks he will take over as speaker -- [laughter] that is just his opinion. >> i guess every thriller needs a villain. how much mileage will the president get by painting him as the bad guy? >> john boehner here is not well known nationally. i think they are targeting boehner for one reason. there are trying to frame this debate as a cost more fair debate. if you look at him with his golf excursions, his tan, he can represent the laissez-faire and that democrats are looking to tack on to republicans. they see a package there. i still think it is pretty tough because he is not a national player. >> the same thing happened with the republicans and nancy pelosi. that does not usually work. i have to say, obama has suddenly come alive and is talking like a regular person. when i say there are fish in the sea, i say no. when the sky is blue, i say no. i think people identify with that a bit. >> going after john boehner is pointless. most of all, people have no idea who you are talking about. people in clevela

skidelsky your wrists and book canes the return of the must step out philosopher and economist john maynard keynes received several awards how relevant the economists feel today i would say they were very relevant in three respects first of all he explained how we got into this mess this crisis in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine secondly he tells us what we ought to do about it how to get out of it and thirdly he tells us how to avoid how we can minimize our chances of getting into another one and i think no other economist does that he was the greatest economist of the last century in one of the articles you said that europe was declining economically and politically why is this happening and what are the signs of the crisis well of course europe's been a very badly hit by the recession and it's got very high unemployment but beyond that i think europe is in decline it's it's weaker than it was it's population is it is not expanding and. others are it's been affected by the rise of asia and particularly the rise of china so if you think back to one hundred years ago europe was

>> well, and didn't john maine arrested cain -- john maynard caine say we're all dead. in the long term they're all dead and have to do something to save themselves. gwen: which brings us to the question of how voters are. as pragmatism dead when you see winners saying -- jim demint saying we don't care what they say and will do what's right and what the constitution tells us is right. does it matter when moderates are completely at sea, no one is speaking to them, playing to them, they seem to have abandoned the president and abandoned both extremes of either party? >> it seems like everybody is on their own. and all these candidates are on their own. in the polls there is an interesting disconnect. you have a situation where the overwhelming feeling is get the people in washington out. so what happens in the polls is do you ask people do you like democrats or republicans? they say we prefer democrats to republicans. do you like democratic policies to republican policies on issues like the economy? they prefer democratic policies. so they say who are you picking, the d

he directly criticize house minority leader john maynard. -- john boehner, and this is 50 minutes. >> the president of the united states. [applause] >> hello, thank you very much. thank you, ohio. thank you, cleveland. thank you, thank you so much, everyone, please have a seat. we've got some business to do today. thank you very much. i love you back. thank you. before i get started, i want to acknowledge some outstanding public servants who are here. first of all, someone who i believe this one of the finest governors in this country, ted strickland. [applause] the lieutenant governor and cent of the junior senator from ohio, lee fisher is here. -- and send to be the junior senator from ohio, lee fisher. in the junior senator from illinois used to be made. the outstanding mayor of cleveland, frank jackson, is here. rma.mayor of palm someone is fighting for work and family each and every day. and three of the hardest working and finest members of the house of representatives, then as the senate's -- dennis kucinich, and good afternoon, everybody. it is good to be back in ohio. you kno

"no one is a -- enjoying his attempts to demonize john bay near than john maynard. in the process, elevating the prey. when the administration called rush limbaugh the leader of the republican party, no one was more delighted than rush limbaugh. host: butler, indiana, your thoughts? caller: i appreciate your taking my call. as a tea party member, i cannot stand republicans or democrats. the thing is, we will have a problem watching republicans saying all these few things that they believe, acting like they are one of us, but once they get into the white house they will go back to their own business. host: why do you say that? take someone like scott brown, who had support from tea party members. what you make of how he has voted since he came to the senate? he did not get the seat completely from key party support, but what do you make of that? caller: typical politicians. the tea party movement is a core american belief system that has been around for 250 years. it is a bold idea coming to the surface, so it will take a while to settle in. we will have to take our

. >> earlier, house minority leader john maynard -- john boehner call don -- called on leaders to have an up or down vote regarding all of the spending is one of the reasons why. except for government spending and the uncertainty facing small businesses, our crippling jobs creation in our country -- yet the white house is piling it on. the economic policies of this administration have failed. yet they continue to offer the same kind of stimulus spending and more of the same job-killing tax hikes. this has not worked. the president was to talk about new ideas for creating jobs. let's start with this one. let's try cutting spending rather than continuing to cling to the one al notion that we can spend our way back to prosperity. republicans have warned that excessive government spending along with the continuing uncertainty that faces small businesses is tendering job creation in america. we call for bipartisan action to cut spending and to start -- to stop all the tax hikes that are coming. last week press -- last week republicans called for president obama to work with these problems b

if you listen to what john maynard said, he wants to go directly -- boehner said, he wants to go directly back to where we were. tax cuts for the rich, coddling corporations, privatizing. all things that are bad for workers, bad for the economy and country. we will continue to remind them of the choice in front of them. nobody gets the luxury of sitting this one out. if you realize on october 3 that what you did was wrong because we are going back to the old economy of george bush where corporate economy and wall street controls all the shots, i think our members understand that. the more i speak to the members, the more they are energized. we have had meetings with more than 225 of our leaders in the battleground states. they left very enthusiastic about where we are. it is not letting me spin machine of the anti-worker action -- i will put it that way -- dominate the debate. we have made progress, we need to make more progress, but it is a decision whether we go forward or backward. >> i would like to take a question from the phone. operator, do we have a question? >> yes, we have a que

institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> we heard republican leader john maynard possibility of him becoming peace it -- speaker of the house that the the election. usa today rights that it is a possibility. he has collected nearly $7.9 million for his campaign, more than double the $2.9 million that current speaker nancy pelosi has received in similar fund-raising. the industry is giving the most money to john behner are insurance companies, wall street firms who face new regulations adopted by congress. "the new york times blog writes that president obama will give rahm emanuel a sendoff friday. he is announcing his official departure from the west wing to run for mayor of chicago and that ceremony will take place in the rose garden and mr. obama plans to appoint peter rauss. we will have coverage of the rose garden speech tomorrow on this cspan networks. right now, live on c-span 2, house speaker nancy pelosi is holding a press conference on the democratic agenda leading into november. majority leader steny hoyer is there with james cliburn. that is live on c-s