If the unemployment does not drop, it doesn't matter if he's a 55 percent President.
Ari Fleischer: “If the unemployment does not drop, it doesn't matter if he's a 55 percent President.”
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Ari Fleischer's view on the importance of unemployment rates for the Obama administration's success.
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I think it sort of two key moments, Wolf. One, there's going to be a vote in the United States Senate to give Congress a role in approving whatever it is that the president negotiates. And two, whether or not Congress moves forward. The…
Yes, this is -- this is one of those weird issues, John. I mean, Dick Cheney is right. Barack Obama is right and Paul Begala is wrong. And that doesn't happen too often.
I think you have to take it at face value he had reason to believe his staff, that's why he was so angry today about it.
I think it's both. It's going to be pulled. It already has been pulled. No member of Congress are going to vote on this while there's a chance that something like this could happen.





