the payroll tax cut. it s set to expire at the end of this year. president obama called john boehner today and the white house has even put a counterdown clock on the home page of its website. it says if the house does not act, taxes on the middle class will increase starting the first of the year. let s go to the white house. our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin, is standing by with the latest on this dramatic political showdown. what is the latest? the latest is that the white house believes there is only one way for the nation to avoid an increase in the payroll tax cut and that is for speaker john boehner to bring that senate pass two month extension to a vote. just this morning, speaker boehner said that s not going to happen. we re here, we re ready to work. we re looking for our counterparts to sit down with us so we can do what the president and leaders want and that s to extend the payroll tax cut for one year. now, midday today, the president ho
savannah. you could call her attitude one of sort of casual indifference. she said before he got in, we welcome everyone and anyone into the race, and that continues to be her position. i also know she made quite a remarkable statement the other day at a campaign event, saying in a bachmann administration i think in a year s time, she said, there would be $2 a gallon gas. quite an extraordinary promise. did she explain how she would accomplish that? reporter: well, she likes to say during her campaign stops that she wants to reverse the strangle hold that opec has on the united states and put a strangle hold on opec and she proposes to do that during her speeches by exploring energy opportunities in the u.s. so in iowa she likes to talk about shale. all right, jamie, good to talk to you. thank you. at bachmann campaign events,
brng our troops home. bg applause for congressman ron paul, huge applause for his anti-war stand. what s going on with the republican party, once dominated by the war hawks? robin wright, longtime foreign correspondent, her latest book is rock the casbah, rage and rebellion across the world. long before the neocittes were involved, they were fight the cold war and fight, fight, fight. last night it wasn t rudy giuliani, it was ron paul you have respect among the republicans. michele bachmann and rick santorum who were pretty hawkish and ron paul who was pretty much a dove. there is rather disarray among the republicans. it was rather striking that both pawlenty and romney were talking about getting out of afghanistan, but at a slower pace than president obama. and so this is where you see the
the teat party emerge add winner last night. which major candidates do the tea party think would make a good president? a new fox news poll found that 59% of tea partiers say there she is. michele bachmann would make a good president. om 27% say she wouldn t. bachmann s 3 -point spread is highest in the poll. the next highest spread goes to rick perry, getting all the action. 48% say he d be a good president. only 19% say he woin. that s a 29-point gap. mitt romney the spread is 14 points. 51% say a good president, 37, percent disagree. sarah palin in negative territory. 45% tea party say a good president, but more, 48%, say she wouldn t. what s happened there? we ll be right back.
that s what the final word was from them. i was proved right in my position. we should not have raised the debt ceiling and instead we should have cut government spending, which was not done. and then we needed to get our spending priorities in order. well, a little complicated to me on that. senior director of politico said the down it grade last week happened because people in the political arena were even talking about a potential default. that the country even has such voices albeit a minority is something notable here. this kind of rhetoric like bachmann s is not common among aaa sovereigns. interesting, chuck. an alternative universe here where bachmann can stand up there with confidence and ignore the fact her willingness to face a default, to take any step that would actually lead to one, was, in fact, somehow proven flight her universe. you know, i think this is the most important overlook part of