>> i was talking about extreme policies that republican candidates are running on that the republican leaders on capitol hill don't want to be part of. >> let me just clarify. she was referring to are limited government, lowering the tax burden. constitutional government. >> exit question. >> get it in here, pat. >> on a scale of 0 to 10, what is the probability that obama will close the intensity gap with republicans and motivate his coalition to buck up and turn out next month? 0 to 10? >> it is a 0, john. he can't -- he can maybe make some gains, but the real problem, obama's great mistake is he misread an election that said get rid of republicans as a mandate for transformational change that he never had. and because he moved in that direction, he has lost the center. >> i disagree. he didn't act on the mandate he had from 53% majority win and he misread the public's desire for everybody to get along for thinking the republicans might want to do that. and that failed completely. >> monica. >> close the gap is probably two or three. but there's a march this weekend in washington an

>> i was talking about extreme policies that republican candidates are running on that the republican leaders on capitol hill don't want to be part of. >> let me just clarify. she was referring to are limited government, lowering the tax burden. constitutional government. >> exit question. >> get it in here, pat. >> on a scale of 0 to 10, what is the probability that obama will close the intensity gap with republicans and motivate his coalition to buck up and turn out next month? 0 to 10? >> it is a 0, john. he can't -- he can maybe make some gains, but the real problem, obama's great mistake is he misread an election that said get rid of republicans as a mandate for transformational change that he never had. and because he moved in that direction, he has lost the center. >> i disagree. he didn't act on the mandate he had from 53% majority win and he misread the public's desire for everybody to get along for thinking the republicans might want to do that. and that failed completely. >> monica. >> close the gap is probably two or three. but there's a march this weekend in washington an

republicans 1, 7, 9. for control 2, 1, 8. assuming republicans gain control of the house, john boehner, minority leader becomes speaker of the u.s. house of representatives. republicans will gain house of representatives. all congressional committees in the u.s. congress practically all of the action takes place on the committee level. and chairmanships are the key to the committee action. assuming all goes ed towns of n as chairman, isa will be able to hold investigation and issue subpoenas to the white house and its staff. cabinet officials and heads of government agencies to testify requested. >> question, as a group, how powerful and how tough are these republican chairman? eleanor clift. >> well, there are some like fred upton, who is going to take over is a moderate republican and i don't think democrats would have any great issue with him. they would probably applaud his chairmanship. darryl isa is primed to make obama's life miserable. i mean he will investigate everything that can be found whether it's there or not a

republicans are dealing with their own inner turmoil, as some tea party-backed republicans faller and senate seats may be slipping beyond the party's grasp. this election season the word "unsettled" comes to mind. today, 30 days to the midterms. with the heads of the two senatorial election committee, republican senator john cornyn. >> the american people have gotten very tired of being lectured to as opposed to being listened to. >> and democratic senator robert menendez. >> dems are going to have a lot more votes in the united states senate that people think. >> then, deciphering al qaeda's latest terror plot with pakistan's embassy, husain haqqani. >> pakistan and the united states remain allies and we are allies with some disagreement. >> making sense of the political jumble on the home front with donna brazile and ed gillespie. i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." a month ago, republicans thought they'd win joe biden's old senate seat in delaware but a tea party candidate beat the favorite in the primary and it it's looking like the seat will stay democratic. hard

more republicans will come out?vote? i'm trying to figure out what the practical effect of the enthusiasm gap is? >> it's the most important question this cycle, i think. certainly more republicans are coming out. there is no question about that. the question on the table is, will democrats show up to vote. now what's good news from the democratic standpoint, three things. we have michelle obama and barack obama and our entire democratic field out there saying, you know, vote your values, not your fear. vote or there will be an alternative that you don't like in power. secondly, we have the apparatus on the ground. this party knows how to get out the vote. and we have to operationalize that. and the enthusiasm gap which still exists, as whit was saying, is half of what it was a couple of weeks ago. but the most important thing that democrats have to do in the next three weeks is get our vote out. >> and let me talk to you a little bit about the tightening in the policy, as celinda was referring to. a, is there a tig

the republican pledge to america written by house republicans. on the health care sector, their first item is repeal obama-care, repeal the health care bill. their second item is reinstate most of the democratic health care bill. they say, we will expand state high risk pools, reinsurance programs and reduce the cost of coverage. we will make it illegal for an insurance company to deny coverage to someone with prior coverage on the basis of a pre-existing condition. eliminate annual lifetime spending caps and prevent insurers from dropping your coverage just because you get sick. talk about demonizing health insurance companies. so michael, your republican idea on health care after repealing the obama plan is to impose a massive regulatory socialistic regulatory regime on the health care sector in order to prevent insurance companies from doing business the way they want to in a free enterprise system. when did that become a republican idea? >> you're a funny man, lawrence. you really are. >> it's a funny document. the document is very funny. it'

republican.f he's a republican, he sure does a lot of knocking on the republicans. boy he knocks and makes me want to vote republican. what's your opinion? host: more on the cable chat. guest: it's funny how the elections this year. things have changed because there's so much election talk constantly on the internet and tv talk shows. i wonder what affect it's had on how people vote. it's made the electorate more impatient. host: let me ask you about nevada. if harry reid does lose this race, there's a race for the leadership. guest: of the four leaders, it's patty murray also. there's two leadership spots. reid is the more interesting one. next in line is richard durbin of illinois. underneath him. senator shumer in new york. it's going to be a battle between the two of them to see who emerges as between them. some people think shumer can win and the others i think durbin. so, you know, it's going to be up in the air between the two of them host: the last two democratic leaders have been from sw

many are republicans.sends the wrong signal and it's problematic for the brand of the rqu1%9ñparty, so i think it's important for republicans across the party stand up and voice their opposition to these kind of views and make clear it doesn't stand for the republican party, it's not the majority view of the party, it's a minority view. and it may be a short-term strategy to win primaries, but it's a bad long-term strategy for the party. >> what would that look like in the nuts and bolts sense? i mean, should the rnc make a statement against candidates who have super anti-gay views or say very homophobic things? should state parties do that? should leading candidates do that? jim demint's not up for re-election, but he's getting more and more powerful and he has among the most anti-gay positions that i've ever heard a public official voice in my lifetime. >> he does. i think we should have it in the republican party platform. i think it should be in the state platforms. i just think it is such a throwback

are they a problem for republicans?> well, they've been a little disruptive in the primary process. to some candidates and we have some unconventional candidates now because of tea party participation in the process. that's the right kind of problem. we've got 19 million people who voted in republican primaries this past year versus 15 million in democratic primaries. four million more people voted in republican primaries than in democrat primaries. that's the first time i think since fdr republicans have outpaced democrats in primary voting. that's a very good harbinger for what going to come on november 2. so the fact is there are some growing pains that are going on here with these new folks coming into the political process, coming into the republican party primary. growing pains are better than shrinking pains. as a former rnc chairman i would rather see that any day. so the fact is the best thing for us is that these folks are voting in republican primaries, not backing third party candidates, tea party candidates

you know, sort of the most problematic republican, person to emerge from the republican field.ocrat or republican saying she didn't have coherent arguments and she more than held her own against senate majority leader. republicans have an easier argument to make this year. the key thing for the next two weeks for republicans they need to stay on the core election. if you have a wave election, ride the wave. don't get in back and forth about the personal ethics. make it taxes and spending and debt and the big issues facing the country. the republicans doing worse are in the personal ethics fights. illinois for example. mark kirk has been unable to open up a lead over a democrat. it's about who is more corrupt? republicans are running the ideological races. even states that obama carried, wisconsin, pennsylvania. they are running straight forward conservative races, conservative messages and they're doing very well. >> chris: mara? >> well, they are doing very well. it's hard to see, you know, we talk a lot about how the republicans need ten seats to get a majority in the senate.

no republican senate. then it becomes this odd game of the white house and the senate against the house. and that's just going to -- you know, we don't know yet the tone out of house republicans until we know who controls the senate and that's potentially going to be a problem for the white how. it would be easier if it were a clean break, in an odd way, being the white house versus congressional republican. we'll have this weird dynamic between the senate and the house before this stuff even makes its way to the president. >> i want to talk about the house and look at a few races that you'll look at early in the evening if to get a sense of magnitude. it's not a question of if republicans take the house but a question of magnitude. tom periello trying to hold off robert hurt. and indiana 2 and kentucky 6. why do those matter? >> there's no one bellwether. you have to look at a basket of them. those are states, early, early states will get if you see three, four, five of those going republican. you'll know

after hearing this battle of republican and democratic messages, 8% shift their vote to support the republican. while only 5% move to the democrats. we lose ground. these messages are helping the republicans." you have just used one of those phrases, congresswoman. is the democratic messaging working? >> well, you know, i don't can think that most members running for re-election use polling memos like dan greenburg and james carville. but having seen it, i know they are running on their record. they're running on the choice they have. the republican choices that have been offered across the country are, you know, pretty extreme. you've got a stranglehold that has been taken over the republican party by the tea party. you have disturbing trend in the corrupt and pretty despicable recruitment job they'vdone where they have candidates that have been accused of sexual assault in erecent weeks. you have one candidate in ohio who thinks it's a good bonding experience to go reenact nazi battles with his son. those are their top-tier candidates that are in their young gun program. and so if that is th

this is something for the republicans to deal with. latest tax cut screed the republican party's pledge to america is economically incoherent. it has no meaningful numbers, proposes no changes in programs like social security, medicare and defense, and asks no sacrifices of anyone, yet says it can balance the budget. good luck with that. where are the sacrifices that republicans are asking voters to make to put them back into power, if they're in power? >> they're not? >> first on the issues -- >> a question for democrats, too, by the way. >> it might be offensive to talk about the issues but the reason the democrats are in a mess here is that, first, the economy's bad. bad. second, the policies are unpopular. health care has 38% approval. going back to those core issues, voters are not insane. they'll vote on those core issues. the problem is the country -- the polls are pretty clear about this. the country is not willing to make the sacrifices the way that british people are, that is necessary to get them back in some sort of fiscal

it's gone democratic, republican, democratic republican.f course, president obama held his conventionhere. one colorado making it more of a purple state. the shared republicans are very energized there and they have a good shot. i think one of the things that might hurt ken buck there is the governor's race isn't quite probably as competitive as it should be in the environment. there's a three-way re. there's an independent candidate that is outdrawing the republican. that may end up hurting the senate candidate a little bit. but that's going to go down to the wire. we may not know for a couple days. >> and john is holding a lead in the governor's race. guest: micha bennett has never been elected in colorado. he was appointed by president obama. president obama is under water in colorado right now. and we're seeing this in a lot of states. and i was in west virginia yesterday. people even who are not -- people who are democrats do not like the president right now or they don't like his policies. and it's not all democrats. it's conservative

the democrat or the republican.nd the early voting in most places except for nevada seem to show more of a democratic surge than a republican surge. so maybe democrats have woken up to the threat that is posed here in the final days. >> is she overly exuberant? >> no. kentucky is not only a tossup. pennsylvania is a tossup. moved a point ahead. he closed >> athat party? >> he's a democratic congressman and he is tied up with tumi now. everything in the republican side, john, because a lot of races are very, very tight. it depends. will there be this republican wave which sort of goes over everybody and adds 3 or 4 points to everybody, in which case republicans have a long shot case of picking up the senate. i would bet no to the senate and i don't know, people talking 60, 70 seats in the house. i don't see that. maybe they will get 45, 50. >> this early voting, are they counting these early votes now? >> i think they are probably talking to people when they come out of these places and asking them how they are votin

if you are republican. they are not doing necessarily what is best for their constituency but what is best for their party. host: kansas city, missouri. anthony, a democrat. caller: how are you doing? my problem and what has got me going out to vote tuesday is hypocrisy and the inability to get anything done in washington. what i mean by hypocrisy is, you have democrats and republican politicians who are against health care but if i am not wrong -- correct me -- doesn't tax dollars, our tax dollars pay for their health care? on the hypocrisy side, it is ok for these lifetime career politicians to say these things that health care is going to work, but their health care is already there for them. what did they have to worry about? and the people who don't have health care or whatever, need to get out and vote. the reason i vote is i am arkansas-american, not african -- i'm a black man. i love this country. this is the best country in the world. host: the next call comes from mexico. linda, good morning. call

chamber of, which backs republican. and $1 million more to the republican governor's association.ce then, irs disclosures show they gave another $250,000 to the republican governor's association. that according to think progress. that brings the total to a million and a quarter. as to the question posed, mr. murdoch only offered this. in these two donations that you are speaking of, we judged it to be in the best interest of the company. it has nothing to do with the editorial policies or the journalism, or the films or anything or anything else. >> could you take a moment to explain how you believed it to be in the best interest. >> no, we believed it is in the interests that -- we believed that it's certainly in the interests of the country. and of all the shareholders and the prosperity of the -- that there be, a degree of, a fair amount of change in washington. >> murdoch also said news corp.'s political action committee had given more money to democrats than republicans. another shareholder correctly noted those donations were comparatively small. $78,000 to democrats. $66,00

if that happens republicans don't have to win 39. they have to win 45 or 46 seats to take the house. an early one to watch and watch it now. if it does down it means it will be a much tougher row for republicans to take the house back. >> bret: karl, yautias, indiana 9. baron hill against republican todd young. >> i chose indiana 9 laws like, indiana 2 and indiana 8 they will be among the first if not the first seats to report in the country. this district indiana was won by john mccain with 50% of the vote to 48% of the vote for barack obama. baron hill won by 58% when won reelection two years ago. i think we will be able to look at this and see how much shift there has been and may give us a sense of what the night is going to look like. if the republicans take this district and i think they will the margin of shift from what mccain got to what todd young will get will give us a sense of what we might see across the country and if there is a sense of shift of four or five or six points from what mix can mccait to what todd young ge

caller: i'm going to vote republican. i'm an active republican. but i want to show how far down this problem goes this year with the kind of choices we have. host: ok. caller: in indiana we have a democratically controlled house and -- house of representatives. the senate is controlled -- senate is controlled by republicans. and we have a republican governor with mitch. but the one district we live in, district 19, is a democratically controlled seat right now. and if the republican would win this year, it would give the republicans control of both the house, the senate, and the governorship. but the republican we're running is so totally unqualified that he shouldn't get a vote for anything. and so as an active republican, who would like to have the republicans have control of the state, i can't vote for the republican. i'm going to have to vote for the democrat and let the democrats keep control if she wins. shelly vanderberg is the democratic candidate. ron dan kline is the republican. he was kicked off the ballot for mayor here. he lost his ch

i think it is becoming more favorable from republicans perspective. there is a base of republicans.hat their task is to do is convince republicans and not democrats that they want to vote for the republican candidates. i asked several republican friends do not vote for jim marshall. >> they are traveling the country as to book a some of the most closely contested house races. for more information on what the local content vehicles are up to comment visit our web site c- span.org/lcv. >> the 2010 atlanta press club debate brought to you live from georgia public broadcasting. the race for the eighth congressional district. >> good evening. we would like to welcome our viewers aren't television and our live studio audience. this is the debate between the candidates from georgia's eighth congressional district. it is located in the middle and south georgia. it includes all of 21 counties. some of the largest counties include dublin and macon. jim marshall is the incumbent. his starting his fourth term. austin scott is the republican nominee our format tonight, they will answer questions

can baner bring in the republican party together? will that rank in file want to cut deals with the democrat? >> no, i think they're going to make it very difficult. >> can you imagine if he did what bill clinton did in 1994, 1995, got together on tax cuts and creating millions of new jobs. obama did something tlikehat -- >> chris: the tea party has an alter native out there. >> there used to be blue dogs. now there's the tea party. it used to be -- there was a budgetary middle of democrats in the 1990's that bill his presidencylt , really -- chris: what happens? >> i think there's going to be a gridlock. then they run by the republicans run by mitch mcconnell. >> the other party was he demonized them like crazy. took advantage of newt gingrich's extremism to make republicans look bad. obama can play that part of the game -- come back, scoops and predictions. chris: welcome back. john, tell me something i don't know. to talk a little bit about governorships. to esday night it's going be a wreck for democrats in the industrial midwest

host: you are calling on the republican line. did you vote for republicans in the past? caller: last time i voted republican because hillary got screwed out of her position by john edwards and obama. host: in economic news this morning, the front page of "the financial times" and also other newspapers. democratic lawmakers demanded probe into foreclosures. house speaker nancy pelosi wrote letters to the justice department, for the reserve and comptroller of currency to look at violation of laws by financial institutions in connection with the league would mortgages. a front page of many of the newspapers this morning. houston, texas. willie, independent line. caller: good morning. host: go ahead, sir. caller: yeah. i don't think hillary and obama -- hillary will probably retire. the republicans, if they regain power, we will have a nationwide strike and probably a race war. the other thing republicans will do for sure is take us back to war. i don't think they should be back for another 100 years. host: let us hear from a republican. louis in vicksburg, michigan dear cal

let's say republicans pick up 44 combrose seats. the net is less than the 39 the republicans need to take over the house. -- house. it's all going to be a net-net game for democrats come election night. probably seven the republicans have a chance of winning. two are already in the bag. delaware at-large seats, and louisiana's special district, that's going back to the democrats. illinois' 10th congressional district, mark curk running for senate. california's third district, dan lund grevpblet problematic the political skills, never really delivered as much as republicans hoped he would. so they have found a few places around the country. allentown, pennsylvania. 15th district. charlie dent could be in jeopardy. so if democrats can stitch together enough of these victories they might be able to hold off the republicans. >> but, major, could they stitch together those victory and still lows -- lose? >> yes, because so many other seats are on the board. john dingell has gone in in two weeks absolutely safe, michigan institution to je

>> if senator demint -- he has said he would rather have a republican conference of 30 republicans who share his view the and 51 with 21 who don't. >> that is not enlarging the party. >> i understand. [laughter] >> keep going. you're doing great. >> that is his point of view. i like jim demint and i know and respect him. i don't share the point of view. sometimes what it takes to get elected to the senate as a republican in texas is diferent than what it taketo get elected as a statewide in maine or oregon, and you know, we have to be competitive around the country. at the same time i don't think the party should abandon its principles of being for overtaxes and stronger national security and traditional values ani think we can do both somewhere in between there is a happy medium. >> so if the republicans to take over the house of representatives particularly if it's big, should nancy pelosi continue to be speaker of the -- the democratic leader or should somebody else take over who is more popular in the country? >> i was at the number of the democratic caucus up there but if the hous

things they're talking about on republican side? >> without a doubt, and it is striking when the final month -- this has been a very active year and a half in congress. they are sorted out -- going out quietly with a whimper. it is extraordinary that the democrats are not trying to double down on these accomplishments. without question, both of these issues will be front and center during the lean-succession after the mid terms, when everything is different. >> the tax issue demonstrates the limitations about life in politics. democrats were certain one year ago the bus strategic move for them was to hold the bush tax cuts until the end, and because they were portraying themselves as protectors of the super rich. the economy has not recovered, and they cannot even take the vote. think about this. they are not campaign on health care. this gives you an indication of where the party finds itself of a more than one month out. >> gentlemen, thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by nati

when a republican calls in on the republican line use a republican. and when an independent, you call it the independent line. when somebody calls and on the democratic line you don't say here is a democratic on the democratic line. would you please go like -- start calling them the democrats' line so it would not be descriptive but just identity. host: i see that -- go ahead with your comments or questions. caller: in connection with this subject. the local congress lady here has recently been in the paper for handing out about 23 different scholarships to people, and it has caused a lot of problems here. so, i have some black friends and i asked one of them who has a church what he thought was going to happen. and he just kind of laughed and said, we are still going to call vote for her because she has been a conversely we are just going to go ahead and vote because she is one of us. so i would like to make comments about our guest. host: what is your question? caller: this minister, who has been a friend of mine -- host: do you have any thoughts to

republicans 178. to become the majority, the republicans must hold on to all of the 178 seats they now have and they must pick up 39 new seats. if they succeed, republicans will be in control of all committee chairmanships, plus have the fellow republican the of representatives. >> question, how many house seats will the republicans pick up in the house if the election were held today? eleanor. >> i'm thinking mid to high 40s, which would be enough for them to take over. but some of those races are beginning to narrow and the amount of money that is being flooded into these districts on behalf of republicans, money inspired by karl rove, the group he inspired or founded prompted the "new york times" columnist to say this is a billionaires cue masquerading as -- >> i'm sure frank wouldn't like this one. >> the democrats have tried to point this out to the voters because whatever voters fear from president obama and the democrats pails to what they would get if a corporate agenda triumphs in this electi

-- does go republican and the gavel changes from the democratic chairman to the republican chairman. barack obama is in for a very >> i cannot wait. >> that explains why the president, even though he cannot go everywhere, it is going everywhere he can in these last two weeks. his travel schedule is packed. granted, some of them are deep blue, but he can make a difference, because he still does get a bigger crowd out there, and part of the democrats' problem is getting the apathetic progress of the voters out, because those people were frustrated by the things that obama was not able to accomplish. >> two things are going on here. what is traditional, one is not. -- one is traditional, one is not. it is a referendum on or the country is. -- on where the country is. the second thing is not traditional, the amount of money that is being spent from outside groups. i cannot tell whether people pay attention to this barrage of stuff, billions of dollars worth of advertising or you just cannot turn on the television in some of these states without -- >> this i checked a week ago. in colorad

it's a republican landscape this year. republicans get to run on what they stand for. and democrats ought to stay quiet about what they stand for. democrats ought to stay out of the lime light. democrats should try to seem as much as possible like maybe they're republicans too. with each passing day, that advice -- this year's political common wisdom is getting less common. more and more democrats seem to be rejecting that advice and instead getting on offense. and it appears that in many cases they are scoring. you can tell they're scoring by watching the effect that democrats being on offense is having on those democrats' republican opponents. it is an effect best described as stop, squirm and run. we are seeing it play out in races in which democrats are favored and races in which republicans are favored. we are seeing it in some of the highest-profile races in the country from which the common wisdom is supposedly drawn. if that's the case, the common wisdom needs updating. here is a case in point. linda mcmahon, the former world wreszing entertainment ceo, and nom

go, republicans, vote. >> who did you vote for in the republican primary?ine. go ahead. caller: i was born before the great depression when herbert hoover was in there as president. i saw the same thing. he did the same thing then that president george bush done. when president bush took office, he had a balanced budget and a surplus, and they got rid of it right quick. we went to iraq. that is not paid for. he flew out "mission accomplished." i saw a lot of this. >> we are going to the democratic line in illinois. caller: i have already cast my vote for a and -- cast my vote for a democrat, and i agree with the truth spoken on this program. we have one of the best presidents we could have. i think there is not anyone running for political office that could be any better president than president obama. let me say this. those republicans are hardly, -- are going to have to repeat the past. >> that was from illinois. we go to a republican in jackson. caller: i first want to say that i love my country, and up until this election, i voted sometimes republican,

host: would you ever vote for eight republican -- for zero republican -- for a republican? caller: we have a republican governor. i would not vote for him because they're the people that got the american people in the state they are in today. host: inside of the baltimore sun this morning, the real race is to get the voters to the polls. host: that is about getting voters to the polls. the front page of "the new york times" has a story about these groups, preparing big pushes at the end of the race. it is about specific races that they're going after here in the next eight days. a story about the week ahead in politics from "the new york times." tonight kicks up the last week of debate for election day. di host: chad, rhode island. good morning. caller: we have congressional races here, no senate races. and we have a governor's race. for governor i'm going to vote for lincoln chafee. he was a moderate and the conservatives could not stand it. but he is honest. therefore i am voting for him. in the second congressional district, our congressman convinced me to become an inde

probably the better for republicans. it broadens their margin for error in terms of the 39 seats they need to take back the house. >> even if people are not getting energized and enthusiastic and excited about this issue of campaign money, in terms of the ground game, campaign money has a lot to say about what happens. >> absolutely. look, every poll, andrea, when you ask do you think there's too much outside money, do you think people should disclose, do you think there should be more transparency? absolutely, yes, 100%. they don't typically vote on it. democrats and congress have focussed a lot on these outside groups, american cross roads, seems to me that's a base play. to energize their base. not to appeal to independent voters. >> let's talk about all has a where you've got this incredible three-way race. they had another debate late last night in alaska, early morning our time. let's play a little bit of it and ask you about it on the other side. >> scott is not ready to lead. joe is not ready to lead. i have been

the republicans played him. that he chased -- [ inaudible ] >> i would hardly say 37% -- >> let her finish. >> hold on, monica. >> the democrats feel that he really was played by the republicans, chasing this fantasy of bipartisanship and they are glad to see him fighting back. this is a fight. this is a real battle. people are getting stomped out on the campaign trail. >> i would hardly call a 37% job approval in his first term succeeding. the other part of his problem is that when he comes out with language like this, it is holy unpresidential. he is supposed to be the president of all of the people, including those who oppose him and his agenda. the other part of his problem is it violates the obama brand. the obama brand was bringing everybody together and healing what divides us. he has gone out there and been the most devicive. >> exit question. >> instead of hitting the campaign trail, president obama stayed in the white house with the democrats then have been in multiple choice, a, would they be better o

overall, this conversation, republicans, i think you heard from bill this morning, republicans thinkhe problem is, too much government spending, they think the stimulus didn't have impact. what you hear from the white house is, the problem is a lack of consumer confidence. and we need to invest and the government needs to invest in the economy. whether in green jobs or infrastructure spending, transportation, but, are not going to get that in the environment and so, rather than the bipartisan, you know, i'm throwing this out, you are throwing that out, where is the sense of common goals here to get the economy going? i don't see the ideas, right now, because, you know, corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars in capital and are not -- don't have the confidence, americans are spending money because, like dana said they are anxious and everybody is worried about their pension and 401 k and kids finding a job and is a situation where everybody is holding tight for safety, and as a relate the economy is not picking up. >> is the administration creating the environment for busines

he's calling on the republican party to do more to diversify. >> do you think today the republican partylearned the lesson it needed to do more outreach to women and minorities? >> i think it's still in process. i say that because i believe in many ways democrats have taken minorities for granted but republicans have not done enough to engage. that's what i hope to do to help the republican party grow is to engage in the hispanic community in the black community in the asian communities in order to bring people together. because when you get outside of the race debate and talk about the issues people care about we all agree much more than we disagree. >> frasier's fellow republican echoed that sentiment. >> politics is people business and you have to understand what the people want and the party has all of the right tools and equipment to recruit more minority members who can be goodwill ambassadors who are part of the communities to come into the communities and talk to friends and neighbors and it has to be a sustaining process. instead of being episodepisodic. >> we have to talk about

republicans are ready to be partners in that debate. if we get the majority back obviously we're going to have to lead it. >> you mentioned we have to grow the economy and create jobs. $700 billion is the equity cost of extending the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest american earners. cbo said if you're going to look at the effect of what you can do with $700 billion the tax cuts is one of the least stimlative to the economy. there are other things you can do and many economists believe you can do more than just extend the tax cut. why do you believe that's the best way to create economic growth? >> most economists -- there are different views and some come from different points of view believe i think that you cannot in an economic downturn like we're in right now raise taxes on your job creators which are your small businesses. and you've seen people come forward and say that would be a mistake right now to allow these tax cuts to expire and essentially to raise taxes on small businesses. i think that right now the major issue is the e