. >> does this hurt or help him, tim carney? what do you think? >> i think exactly what makes a guy like mitt romney acceptable to a guy like jimmy carter is he doesn't really have firm beliefs. in other words, for romney to flip-flop isn't like a john kerry flip-flop where he firmly believes something one day and firmly believes the opposite the other day. it's like a wind sock blowing around, not rooted in one direction. a lot of liberals i talk to say, look, i don't know if i want to run against romney because he's harder to beat but i'd rather romney than the other guys. everybody looks around and says mitt romney doesn't really have firm beliefs. maybe that will translate into him being a technocratic pragmatist. if you don't have enthusiasm that hurts in swing states, too. >> let's talk about enthusiasm. in the fox news poll that showed it was a dead heat, in the 2.0 article you wrote tim dickinson for "rolling stone" you asked about the enthusiasm deficit. he acknowledged it but saw it as an opportunity. in what way? >> there's key demograp

that is wrong, and it makes me agree with tim carney, which is something extraordinary. all americans, pretty much, are agreeing with that. some changes are going to have to be made. you have to ask, where does the buck stop? yes, it starts with the bush administration, but why didn't they do anything about it? this has been going on for years. if i were a vp strategist right now, i would be thinking how can we make the most of this and i would be all over it. >> fox news has been all over this. it's been their better story for two weeks. >> i would like to see republicans tie this in not just to this obama guy and to the 823,000, but tie it into welfare. >> but even more broadly, i think, the point that even private institutions, when you have no accountability and people spending other people's money, whether it's if a movie studio and somebody else's money, or whether it's at the federal government, when you have that disconnection, you get -- >> but we don't care. >> the shareholders care. the government or the taxholders are the shareholders. speaking of government

tim carney occasionally waiting next to her on camera. sam speeder. there any way where the obesity epidemic becomes in some fashion a partisan issue? >> it already has. right now the plan for the wera t t sffd se to make up fore ancos acyroaun t afoabarct ic ispecifilly set up for preventative care to help deal with these issues. >> i'm thinking they may be less partisan. >> you asked the question ask that -- and that's the reality of it. >> yes, and i agree with that. but there is another reality which is the incredible subsidies that we provide in this hefd, de mkehe n, and which makes me think that i've gone crazy because whoever heard of a company that raises toxicity to its raising and often there is rig right/left, and peopleroonhe ft to tt uo peonal hlth care senng and alth insurance premiums intohe government's fear which is that we. so if you were buying many improvement in. >> you're absolutely th b. br tain hever be healthr before '0. eat three meals a day and aun. now, obviously you're not going to have a unanimousty stay in that situatio

joining us, tim carney from the washington examiner, and friend, buddy and pal, mike williams. easy to look at the news wires or the digital feed or whatever it is and it conjures in anybody lots of emotion. fear, anxiety, righteousness, we have to do something. how do you, mike, even begin to reconcile between the emotional have vissisitud erk vissisitudes that we all experience? >> the challenge in foreign policy is to put your emotions aside and your gut reaction is focus on the longer term trend. when we look at proliferation, let's look at iran. if they only voluntarily give up weapons, you can never really stop them from doing it. so do you hype up the rhetoric or do you try the back channels? so by rationing up the rhetoric, you just create a security dilemma, right? the iranians are worried about an invasion. it's really about taking a step back from what you desperately want to do, which is disarm them and it won't work. >> at the same time, the united states stands behind a lot of other folks in the middle east, like israel, egypt. others who look at him and say, list

tim carney occasionally waiting next to her on camera. sam speeder. there any way where the obesity epidemic becomes in some fashion a partisan issue? >> it already has. right now the plan for the republican house to make up for the funding on continuing the lower rates to the stafford loans comes exactly from a fund in the affordable care act which is specifically set up for preventative care to help deal with these issues. >> i'm thinking they may be less partisan. >> you asked the question ask that -- and that's the reality of it. >> yes, and i agree with that. but there is another reality which is the incredible subsidies that we provide in this basis. . we make sugar -- the cheap food, and we make the non, and which makes me think that i've gone crazy because whoever heard of a company that raises toxicity to its raising and often there is rig right/left, and people who come for corn subsidies. there is a big white iron on the left the more that you move personal health care spending and health insurance premiums into the government's fear which

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hillary clinton and then with secretary of the -- the treasury secretary tim geithner late this afternoon at 4:50 p.m. jay carneyll court press." the "bill press show," your newest morning show here on current tv. good to be with you as we tackle the big stories in our nation's capital, around the globe. take your calls on what everything means to you and to your family. lots of stuff to talk about today. but the big question i have is when is this name-calling, ugly name-calling against president obama going to stop? remember, it was last week or so, rush limbaugh called president obama a jack ass. it was last week that karl rove, senior counselor to president bush called president obama a thug and now over the weekend iowa senator chuck grassley says the president is just plain stupid. remember the days when if you didn't like the man, at least you respected the office of the presidency? those days exist no more. not with this guy. that's just one of the things we'll be talking about here on the "full court press." first, all of the latest here in this current tv news update from out in los angeles, jacki sche