Rahm Emanuel

It sets up Obama in no way.

When George Mitchell in 1990 gets Bush 41 to sign a tax increase.

It breaks up the Republican Party.

Pat Buchanan challenges a sitting Republican president, and it sets up Bill Clinton in 1992.

So I believe do the work now, both not only for 2026, but for the discipline of 2027.

One of those is going to break through and get to the president's desk.

If he signs it, you want it to be something that divides the Republicans from him.

If he vetoes it, you want to make sure it also divides the Republicans from him.

The goal there then says who we are and who they are.

Yeah, I agree.

Tommy, there's three or four layers here.

Not knowing who we stand for, not knowing whether we'll fight for who he thinks.

The reason I'm going around on these community colleges, 40% of the people in America go to community colleges that go to higher education.

These are the unseen, unheard, unrespected folks.

I know what I did to reform the community colleges of Chicago and what we did to make sure that people that went there can walk in and say, I went to Malcolm X and get that nursing job at Rush Presbyterian Hospital.

Or the guy I met in Spartanburg who's working on mechanical stills and he has a $33 an hour plus benefits job waiting at GE for him on May 11th.

To me, you can't just say these things that sound great in faculty lounges or papers.

You actually have to feel the people that are under the intense pressure.

Not only have an agenda for them, but they're willing to take on and break some eggs to get it done.

And our party hasn't.