The Man is not comprhensible
"The two major things you've done, you and the president, health care and the stimulus, are both successes.
Yep.
So how come you can't get that across?
Well, let me put it this way: They are not sufficient. I think people will grant us that they were, on balance, the important things to do. But other than in the health care industry, they didn't create many jobs in their mind. . . that's not where most people are. And most people are out there saying, "Okay, now tell me how I am going to be employed or keep my job or keep my house." And part of what they're doing now is, they're beginning to look—if you look at the polling data—they're beginning to say, "All right, will you turn it around? Just tell me. I want to know."
When they ask that, how do you answer?
I say we have turned it around, and here's how we're gonna create the jobs. We're not gonna go back to those policies that in fact stripped you of your job. Look, the basic difference between us and Republicans is—and they're good guys—they still genuinely believe this idea of the Laffer curve. That if you cut taxes—even though it hadn't worked twice when they tried it—it's gonna create jobs. Secondly, I think they sort of mistrust average middle-class people. Mistrust in the following way: It's a little bit like, These folks don't know what's good for them. So if we just put the guys and the women with money and power sort of back in the driver's seat, it'll all work out."
