you know you re going to like it, and they didn t really show it for what it was. i m still nervous. i still don t like the idea they re going to cut a bunch of things. i m not saying cut things elsewhere. i don t want anything cut, but, you know, in the child care, family care part, i really think that is disturbing. just do pre-k? that s not enough. the new york times had a good piece a couple days ago showing, on the one hand, people are like, okay, if this is what we have to have, we ll do it. but on the other hand, it s really not enough, and this is how it hurts poor families. i don t know.
choices are still going to be compromised. and medical care and attention in this country is still going to be tested. so, with or without this, it is going to be a tough environment for doctors, per, for patients, period. do you agree? guest: i do. and it is so pesty new but this started in the early 1970 s with the hmo s and they were done by mandate and the tax code contributed to this. the legal system is all messed up on torts and that is a mess. so, it is not going to be cleared up. the parent is the one that suffers. in the free market, the consumer should be king. it should not be big business or unions or workers, it is always a consumer. in this case the consumer is the patient. and the patient should dictate everything. should pick and choose and spend the money and negotiate but they have lost total control, and the doctors don t care that were, they just make sure they don t get anything cut or they will
featuring on politico today the new george washington university battleground poll. walk us through some of them. right. we ve teamed up with gw to do several of these polls. and we looked at the 2012 race and the super committee. how does the public view its work? what does it expect? not that many people are paying close attention to the super committee and not many people have very high hopes that thatky get anything done. and one of the reasons is you see in our poll is people don t want anything cut that they like. about 90% are worried about domestic spending cuts, about 80% are worried about defense spending cuts, obviously no one wants their own taxes to be raised. so you understand a little bit of the vice that members of congress feel in as they try to come up with more than $1 trillion cuts or tax increases in the next couple of weeks. is this a larger point, though, jim, about the way people view congress? i feel like if you ask anybody, will congress get something do
alluding to is what was certainly not one of the former speaker s finer moments on this presidential campaign. and it nearly derailed his campaign several months ago when he made that statement. i think that really the question here, and i m going to do something i don t do very often which is give the republicans credit. for what? what they re doing is framing the debate. the american people are not in a mood to grow government. they would like to see government reduced. and so that will cause a discussion. if you don t like these cuts, what do you actually want cut? what do you actually want done? maybe the president also needs to be reminded that there is democrats as well on capitol hill, and some of his budget proposals haven t had overwhelming democratic support either. erin, if that is the case and steve says they re in the mood to cut, we know time and time again, when we look at the polls, folks say including the most conservative that they want to cut but they don t wan