my name is larry bush. i was at the rule committee hearing in june where there was discussion about proposals from the ethics commission put forward by superviser weiner. before that meeting took place. supervisors campos had asked harvey rose to do an analysis on how san francisco compared on policies dealing with ethics and transparency and how they did on enforcement. i didn't see anything in the minutes or the notes from the executive director telling you all about that harvey rose report, but it's an important one. i brought copies for all of the commissioners. it does a very good job of outlining places where san francisco is somewhat better than los angeles and places where san francisco might want to consider adopting policies that are in los angeles. some of those policies are directly related to issues that you'll be dealing with later on on 1.126. the other point that they made was that they would like to see the commission take a stronger outreach to the interested persons meeting so that more p

bush administration in southern california. it was norman lear and his wife, larry david, bob scheer. they were sitting around w eeping in their expensive soup about the fact that we were living in hell. rupert murdoch on the media. george bush was president. norman lear had his pulse on american culture for 30 years. why cannot figure out how to deal -- deliver a message that is important and happening? >> that is important. we can find messages that speak to people where they are. they can also have some satire like stewart or colbert. there is the idea of exposing with satire. it opens people's eyes to the hypocrisy and corruption of our politics. the problem is you want the captivating stories and images and vocabulary, but a lot of the colbert-stewart stuff is so absurd and over the top that people do not want to get engaged. >> that is where a large number of people get their news. >> i think the obama campaign was a pivotal point, bringing people in. now they leave. there is the possibility that people will come back in. i agree with that movements also have

bush tom bevit. larry, let's start with you.m your observation point in the university of the virginia, how do you see this pick? it is a national pick, john. it is not a pick designed to win wisconsin or the rough belt. maybe those things happen. but it is about reframing the entire election campaign on a big issue that is worthy of a presidential election as opposed to the gaffes and negative tv ads that we are talking about full-time before ryan was picked. >> how does it reframe it, larry? >> around the fiscal decisions that be going to have to be made by the next president and congress. they are gigantic and they are important. we weren'ting them at all . we'll have that discussion which ever way it goes. >> you think that romney had an economic plan and many people who deal with budgets, including the responsibility budget say it was not enough meat there for voters to wrap their arms around and sink their teeth into it. do you thang the ryan budget plan becomes the plan. >> it is a whole meet locker and i don't think anyb

it was very clear that she just didn't know what the bush doctrine was. and, larry, it seemed after that, her handlers kept her from us. they were very, very few interviews that governor palin did after that. me thinks that paul ryan is so media savvy he will be out there for all of us to question at leisure. >> i think they'll put him out there. i don't know how much they will. look, he's known as an expert at least in his field, the budget. clearly, he knows what he's talking about there. sarah palin's problem was she had not been properly prepped over the years about many national and international issues. that isn't going to be paul ryan's problem. i don't think anybody is going to ask paul ryan which newspaper he reads in the morning. >> larry that bugs me when people say properly prepped because i've got to be honest with you. there's only so much you can prep for if you're going to be the leader of the free world. you need to be generally prepped and a question like that was something even a news anchor would know without really reading up much on it. i have

joining us now is larry lindsey, president and ceo of the lindsey group and former national economic council director under president george w. bushng great, how are you this morning? >> i'm all right. we have a history together, and i remember things, i remember things that you say and i understand you. you are, you have a business now and you have democrats and republicans as clients, so you're very guarded sometimes, but you didn't like mitt romney for some reason. do you like him more, now that he picked -- and you're a republican. you like him more, now that he picked paul ryan, or less? >> well, i'm going to use something in washington which is not answer the question you asked but answer the question i want to answer. >> as i said we've had a history. i need to ask you, just because i'm going to cut to the chase because i know you and i know how you think. so you're not going to answer it but take a shot at whatever you want to say. >> okay. first of all i think it's mostly a governing decision. the last time we had an executive design piece of legislation get through the congress, it was 2003, which was medicare part d, an

bush and john mccain ignored it, like mitt romney says he would do. larry> all right, many thanks, steve handelsman. >> wait, wait, wait. there ma i be a way to get around this whole mess. here's a former clinton white house aide, tory clark and senior adviser to cnbc parent comcast corporation. and cnbc contributor jennifer ruba, author of "the washington post" right turn blog. jennifer, i lued what you wrote today. there might be a way out of this. i saw it in connecticut with joe lieberman. tell me how the gop can get around this. >> there are two ways. the real deadline is september 25. he can go to court and be freely given a permission to get off the ballot. in a week or so when the money runs dry, he can reconsider. the second option is to put else on the ticket. if they ran jack danforth as an independent or they ran a kit bond recently retired on the ticket as an independent, the republicans could back that person and quite likely really do mr. akin in. so i'm a little bit optimistic after hearing the cry not only from washington republicans but re

>> ed lazear and larry lindsey will give us their take on the gop message, they're former economic advisers to the george w. bush ask them what to expect from today's jackson hole speech by fed chairman ben bernanke. >>> and david lipton will join us live from jackson hole to talk about the eu's prospects for recovery and u.s. fed policy, the top ranking american at the imf. the third hour of "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ hey, kids, shake it loose together ♪ ♪ the spotlight's hitting something to know to change the weather ♪ ♪ so stick around >>> welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc, first in business worldwide, i'm joe kernen along with becky quick. andrew ross sorkin is on vacation. our guest host is arthur books, president of the american enterprise institute and author of "the road to freedom" and "the battle" and we were talking about our upcoming guests, larry lindsey who we both love, he's a conservative, keynesian. >> fundamentally. >> i said when he comes on you got to call him that. i want to ask him whether he would really say he's a keynesian because it's a dirty word in some circles. >> if t

bush's term and covering alg of president obama's three and a half years in office, we'll talk more about this cbo report and the recession but here is the first big interview, larry kudlow coming out of the interview saying i'm a guy who would perhaps be open or receptive to these ideas but there are no specifics here. >> well, i thought congressman ryan was going to be more -- be able to be more specific. he is a man who likes specifics and he is a numbers person. so governor romney has been unspecific throughout the campaign. i thought in picking ryan he would get more specific. as romney refused to detail deductions that he would eliminate in the tax code to find new revenue this week, congressman ryan doesn't feel as his vp pick he can get specific with numbers. i think what's interesting is in light of the cbo report, both parties by the way are responsible for the looming fiscal cliff we're facing in november and december with the economy on the brink literally $1.2 trillion in spending cuts both parties say are ridiculous but they agreed to because the super committee couldn't come up with some kind of consensus. >> right. >> then the expiration of all the

bush's watch. >> which was also condoleezza rice's watch. >> stephanie: yeah. hello, larryted to say that mitt romney has no courage and honor, and his chance of winning the veterans and current service members votes is basically close to zero once they find out. when they find out that he not only ran off to france when his country called him to serve, he was a pro-war campus vietnam protester. and it gets even worse. he was a pro-war college campus protester for vietnam and right before he left for paris. >> stephanie: exactly. >> caller: everybody knows he dodged the draft and ran from vietnam to go to paris -- >> stephanie: yeah we have had more than one vet call the show and say that. janet welcome. >> caller: thank you. what a night last night. we had a diverse group of people in our home latinos, italians greeks, democrat parties and republican, watching all of this. and there were a lot of people that had their views, and i -- i suppose i grew up as a democrat and right now i would say i'm on the fence, and -- and we are calling your show because we want a bipartisa