instead of changing his mind, the new guy doubled down, said he wanted to kill medicare last month and he wants to kill medicare this month. dean heller will be defending that vote in 2012 when he runs to hold onto the senate seat to which he was appointed. if that election hinges on medicare, dean heller will have sealed his fate fewer than three weeks into his term on what was only his 11th vote as a united states senator. urn, third day t. so i took my heartburn pill and some antacids. we re having mexican tonight, so another pill then? unless we eat later, then pill later? if i get a snack now, pill now? skip the snack, pill later. late dinner, pill now? aghh i ve got heartburn in my head. [ male announcer ] stop the madness. take prilosec otc for frequent heartburn. one pill a day. twenty-four hours. zero heartburn. no heartburn in the first place. great. [ male announcer ] use as directed for 14 days. well, we re here to get you custom orthotic inserts. we can t afford that. yes,
instead of changing his mind, the new guy doubled down, said he wanted to kill medicare last month and he wants to kill medicare this month. dean heller will be defending that vote in 2012 when he runs to hold onto the senate seat to which he was appointed. if that election hinges on medicare, dean heller will have sealed his fate fewer than three weeks into his term on what was only his 11th vote as a united states senator. so i took my heartburn pill and some antacids.
they have done it, they have to try to survive it, and try to survive it together. which is the same logic of health care, right? we were all saying after this, you can t unring that bell. you cannot walk away from that vote you ve taken. if you drop it now, have you the worst of both worlds. but the big difference here, it s one thing to take a really difficult vote politically or one that will expose you to political risk in exchange for a substantive accomplishment. but that was never on the table here. it was clear that it was not going to pass a democratic senate and be signed by a democratic president. that s what is so mind boggling about this. that s why the segment is john baner is bad at his high poth thesis. he let paul ryan put forward that plan that was adopted as the official republican party
war powers act says that the president has to seek authorization from congress after 60 days. that was on friday. i believe that you ve said that you don t expect a vote in the senate on that until sometime after june 5th. he sent a letter to us, the president, indicating the war powers act was in existence and what he thought of it and what he thought the parameters of that would be. i ve had conversations with the chairman of the foreign relations committee and john mccain. they ve agreed on what they think should be done and now i m working out some time when we get back from the memorial day recess so we can sit down and have a debate. i think it s important and we knead to have one. do you think that the overall concept of the war powers act, resolution, is obsolete? do presidents in effect have the ability to wage war without deep consultation with congress? has that eroded over time?
it also says that if a president does start the war powers resolution also says if a president does start a u.s. military operation without a prior okay from congress, congress has to give authorization for that operation within 60 days. and if they don t, then that operation ends. that military operation must cease so says the war powers resolution which is technically the law even though presidents really don t follow it. and congress doesn t make too much of a stink about it anymore either. we just hit the 60-day time limit for u.s. involvement in the nato operation in libya. we hit that timeline on friday. is our involvement there being cut off because there s been no okay from congress on the war powers authorization is the law of the land? no. as i said it is the law of the land but not one anyone really follows. there are plans to have congress do some additional vote on the libya operation but they re not in any big rush about it. i asked senate majority leader harry reid how c