2010, but the ban remains in effect while the legal battle continues to play out. so the reason we discuss this today, well, today s ruling sets up the next likely step for proponents of the ban, which is the u.s. supreme court. oh, goody. let s turn to today s mega panel. karen, susan and jimmy, who better than the supreme court to determine whether gay marriage should be intact in california? james, you must be thrilled. not gay people. god knows you would let gay people decide if they should get married. they shouldn t do anything in general, last time i checked. jonathan capehart put this in his column today. it s actually an excellent column. go to the washington post and look at it. people s rights shouldn t be put on ballot measures. governor christie said four or five months ago that he thought if plaque people had had their civil rights put on the ballot in the south in the 1960s, we would be much better off. that s a paraphrase, but that s what he said. is he smoking
what do you think the message is for this manufactured crisis? we didn t have to have this crisis. if you play the boehner speech, you ll see about 2/3 of the way through that speech he actually said, the president knew. i told the president back in january that if he didn t do this by the time of the debt limit bad things would happen. that s a paraphrase, but it s in there. boehner set this up from the beginning we would come up against this default moment. then they would use that as a leverage. it s not the only time they ve done that. they did that four times in december. once they took over the house, this is the fourth time they used a critical moment, shutting down the government with the continuing resolutions and now this. another thing that s in that provision is a guarantee, absolute flat-out guarantee we are going to go back through this whole thing in six months. what do they gain by doing
tumbling though it may, he is still the cool guy in this case. that s a paraphrase. guest: i don t think americans are going to want to be duped twice and president obama has per pet perpetuated the the biggest bait and switch. he has an economy with $4 gallon a gas, a federal government that is out-of-control, crushing levels of unemployment, and you go into the swing states that decide this election and his numbers are not just bad, they are awful. if the election were held today he would be beat. neil: many who looked at your economic plan, that is the one that calls for two tax rates, 10 percent and 25 percent, say that is the political equivalent of your own hail mary desperate pass and that the expectation of 5 percent or more growth is unrealistic over a decade and you know it but you are desperate. what do you say. guest: well, some of the
these preliminary, obvious steps? the american people should be outraged at what has been inflicted upon us. and congressman dave kemp, republican chairman of house ways and means, took this up to look at the impact on employment and the economy, something that i think should have been done before now megyn: that s one thing. but now you have the chief actuary saying, before we get to that, let me tell you how the president s claim is untrue. that s a paraphrase, but it s obviously problematic. i m surprised, quite frankly, to see the chief actuary for medicare testify like this. two points. there were dozens and dozens of hearings on the hill that republicans participated in everything that the other guest has said is wrong and misleading. it was the most discussed piece of legislation we ve had in 20 or 30 years and the republicans