netanyahu the president s u.n. speech in advance and solicited his vote of approval, him going public in front of the media saying nice things about the president, clearly this is more political than anything. domestic politics are important here. four in ten jewish voters disapprove of the president s stand on israel or in general and that s increased by 8 points since only june. andrea, i know you might have misspoken, that poll was overall approval, not on israel. and specifically, you have when you say four in ten, that means 60% of jews in america support president obama but he was elected with more support than that. he s lost support bottom line is he s lost support among jewish voter and perceived as not being supportive enough of israel.
the health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius joins me now. what is the fallout of this? how do you get it funded if they re trying to block you in the senate? well, i think, andrea, the initial affordable care act passed with some resources included in the bill. and we are going to continue to implement the law. there is an ongoing discussion. i mean, frankly congress hasn t funded any of government. and we are waiting to see what our budget overall is going to be, other agencies are waiting. and i think the debate is on in the senate whether or not they will, you know, take the house past continuing resolution, whether they will do a short shorter-term continuing resolution. there s no question that the omnibus bill was a bit toppled by the earmarks, most of which were designed for republican senators, including the senate
lot of unhappiness in the liberal base. the s.t.a.r.t. treaty has the support of former secretary of state. you know when they are playing the christmas card, so to speak, andrea, that the republicans are out of arguments when they re saying that, you know, the reason not to do it because it interrupts with christmas. as far as the dream act, i think that s a longer shot, but if there s enough mobilization you could even possibly see action on that. the one that is just completely puzzling to me is this 9/11 responders bill. you may have seen jon stewart had a terrific show on this last night where you had these first responders who have cancer and they re saying on this show, why are we not getting some help? you know if the shoe were on the other foot and if were democrats, not republicans who were blocking a bill, the republicans would be saying they are spitting on patriots,
andr andrea, because you will be working again this weekend. this is the final push of the lame duck. keep an eye on one story line. liberals not happy. particularly with the tax cut compromise that has now passed. do they get don t ask, don t tell? this has already gone through the house. that is if it can get 60 votes. it can end debate, get it to the floor ft it will be a major victory for liberals, and i would expect the white house to tout it as such. the white house needs to make up ground with the liberals who are disaffected after the tax cut vote. this may be the way to do it. there s a lot of ground to be made up. so we ll be watching all weekend. chris cillizza, thanks. we ll read your blogs. that does it for us for this edition of this week of andrea mitchell reports. next week richard trunka, head of the aflco. he s meeting with the president today. we ll get his reaction on the that.
my colleagues on the republican and the democratic side. i have important decisions to make. they re important ones for me and my family. the first one is, do i want to run again every time you come to it, you have decide to do it for six more years. and how do i want to run? would you consider becoming a republican and you could chair a committee? they have a lot o offer now. all options are open, andrea. i got reelected as an independent. i like being an independent. so i would say right now if i run again it s more likely that i ll run as an independent. we have a lot of talking and thinking to do with family and friends over the break. i hope to announce early some time next year. well, come do it right here.