0 caught in a terrible situation. we have fiscal chaos and no leadership. that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction. joining us from boca row tan florida fox news chief political analyst brit hume. where am i going wrong here, brit? >> i don't think you are going wrong, bill. i agree with just about everything you said there. >> bill: even the gravy part? >> i'm not sure how well. >> bill: uncle. >> i'm not sure how loud he would be able to scream it out. i hear reid is an odd fellow and not very effective spokesman. congressional leaders are normally behind the scenes people. their job is to round up the votes and shepard the legislation. they are really not normally the leading spokesman on the issues who -- that's really -- that's a presidential job, and a job where president obama's behavior in this business about the automatic budget cuts, this isself the most peculiar behavior i have ever seen by a president. >> bill: me too. absolutely. >> normal president would be trying to reassure the public this is not a large sum of money compared to the budget overall. while there are some difficulties because it's across the board and that ma fall -- make it fall particularly hard in some accounts where you would rather have it not, a president would certainly not be turning down the possibility of some authority to move money around in such a way to diminish the pain. >> bill: when did he say that, by the way? when did he say he didn't want the authority that paul ryan wants to give him to make sure that, you know, things like aircraft carriers aren't denied, things like that? >> i'm not sure -- i can't site you a crow station from him although there may be one. his aides have made it perfectly clear as recently as a week ago on "fox news sunday" gene sperling, his chief economic advisor said as much. and as far as iunder and it it said the same thing yesterday. this has been pretty clear, the administration doesn't want. this the president seems prepared to let the public suffer almost as much as possible as long as he can blame somebody else. this is not what we expect of presidents. presidents in the end are supposed to be the people who put their big boy pandz pants and prepare to shoulder responsibility and criticize for using that responsibility or authority so be it. but that's what you you expect of presidents. this president seems more inclined to let the chips fall where they may and hit as hard as they might as long as he thinks he can blame somebody else. it's very unusual for a president. >> bill: by his actions, he emboldens the conspiratorial tolerists now out in force talk radio he he wants to tank the economy. and capitalistic system to fall apart. go into bankruptcy so he can build new socialistic paradise. you know that is out there. this almost gives credence to that there is no rational explanation why you wouldn't try to get a deal. listen, here is how simple this is. you have got your tax increase. president obama won that round. he he got his tax increase. then you say to boehner and the republicans, okay. let's trim 10%. give me youredies. i will give you my ideas and we will come together and then after that we'll take on the tax code and try to close some of these loopholes but at the same time for 2014 and 2015, we will try to mitigate some of the spending there. then everybody is engaged. all right? that wasn't even close to -- that's whether a should happen. it wasn't even close. >> this president seems to think that the way to negotiate is to make the other guy an offer that he can't possibly accept. i mean, it is completely, politically crazy to think that the republicans, who have just acquiesced, not that they had a lot of choice but acquiesced in this significant tax increase which you just mentioned on the highest income people. it is not unreasonable for them to turn around and say okay, you have got your tax increase, now let's work on the spending side. and his view is, no, no. we will do some spending but we have got to have more taxes. he knows he can't get that. so he knows when he puts it on the table or argues for it that it is not going anywhere and that it is going to fail. the only thing that makes any sense to me, bill, he thinks that politically if this comes down hard, these spending cuts or cuts in the growth of spending, on people, and they it at the airport or wherever else it might be they will blame the republicans that perhaps he can then turn the tables and regain the house of representatives for his party in 2014 and then he can do whatever he wants in the final two years in office. the problem is that this is a classic example of what james talking about linden johnson once described as dealing with the politics of your problem and not the problem itself. >> bill: also, you are going to have a situation where i believe public opinion is going to go against barack obama, led by the bob board ward deal. i think you are going to see a shift in his approval rating going down. i could be wrong on that but i think that's what's going to happen. brit hume living large in florida. wrap it up, brit, go ahead. >> i was going to say it's down a bit already. i think he was caught out claiming this was the republican's idea and even the white house has now had to admit that that's not true. >> bill: okay. next on the run down, nurse in california would let an elderly woman die on the floor rather than put her job at risk. what does this say about america? 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>> i don't have words for that, bill. it's inhumane. i don't think there is any way that if it's my mom that there would be any excuse for her behavior in that circumstance. i don't think that there is anything here but somebody losing their humanity. as i understand it she wasn't a nurse. she was a resident services director. her boss is telling her that at this type of home. it's not a nursing home. it's a senior living facility, that they don't provide medical attention and medical services. so maybe they were in fear of some kind of liability if they do something wrong. >> bill: it doesn't really matter though, juan, does it? >> it doesn't matter what they're in fear of or what the boss says. mary katharine, it doesn't matter. you have a choice. you can try to save the lady's life who is lying on the floor, all right? or you can do nothing because your idiot boss says it's against our policy. >> no, i agree. >> bill: this woman, this dispatcher goes is there anybody? no, not at this time. we're going to let her die because i really want to come to work tomorrow, you know. well, it's just too bad. on the floor there. i hate to say it but i think this is taking root in america. this kind of me, me, me, me, me. it's all about me. you die, you die. go ahead, mary katharine. >> i think there is some of that. there is a reason this happens and it's partly because of the will litigious nature of our society and you can be afraid of all of these lawsuits. part of what america has to do and what our society has to do is reward people who break the rules and save people and act in humane ways there was a lifeguard in florida last year who was fired for saving somebody out the perimeter of his beach area. bill people rallied around him. that's part of what our duty is to reward people who are willing to break the rules. it's a shame there are bureaucratic rules that sometimes prevent people from acting in the correct ways. as a human being -- >> bill: not with life and death. isn't this about life is becoming cheaper, juan, in the u.s.a.? that's what i really think it is. i think we're -- it's the abortion business, the late term abortion business. it's the euthanasia business. she is 86, ah, you know. >> you know, here is a curious part of this story is what i'm going to tell you is that her daughter, who is a nurse, said she had no objection to the way her mother was treated. this to me is mind-blowing. how could you not be upset that your mother is on the ground in distress, you know, having trouble breathing and nobody comes to help? what are you crazy? but that's what the daughter says. >> bill: this has taken root, this life is cheap business is getting worse and worse and worse in this country. go ahead, mary katharine are. >> i want to take note that it does sound like she had a do not resuscitate order that came to light. >> bill: do not resuscitate. she is alive, she falls down. >> breathing at the time. >> bill: not like she is in a coma. >> i agree with you. daughtert be her rationalization for this. >> bill: who cares? the daughter is a loon. >> nothing to do with what happens at the scene. the woman is breathing and you do what needs to be done. the fact that you need to find a stranger instead of the most qualified person in the room to do this is insane. >> to take up on bill's point though. we as an american people are difficultying away from the values, you know, i'm going to say i'm an old guy in the room here with you two. i'm going to tell you i just think there was more respect for the seniors in our society, for the elderly. the whole idea. >> bill: no doubt the elderly are getting pounded. more than that. >> they are are a burden on this society or cost us money because of medicare, medicaid. >> bill: you have got to look at, juan, your crew, your left wing crew. i just want you to think about. this oh, stop. >> bill: maybe we will pick it up next week. drilling holes in baby's heads the week before they are supposed to be birthed, where is the outcry? where is the outcry? >> i don't think that's about -- look, i think. >> bill: life is becoming very cheap in this country. i have got to governmental not enough respect for the seniors. >> bill: directly ahead, as mentioned the state of colorado, one of the few that will not pass jessica's law. why? because of that guy. he is a villain. not watters, the other guy. watters