If you ever wonder why they call politics the game for grownups, then consider this: whoever would have thought six months ago that George W. Bush, a young President with no experience in foreign policy, would be compared to Presidents like FDR and JFK for his diplomatic skills? Who would have guessed that the country would be mired in recession and the once robust surplus would be gone, replaced by the spectre of growing deficits. One week into the new year, and the two parties are scrapping over the economy, and only the economy.
Guests:
Alexis Simendinger, White House correspondent for the National Journal
Ed Goeas, Republican pollster
and Mark Penn, Democratic campaign consultant.
Political pundits have declared that this is the new battleground upon which the upcoming midterm elections will be fought. Pollsters and strategists are trying to predict the unpredictable.