in this country, for the second time in less than 24 hours, an earthquake shakes central oklahoma. the latest one hit right before midnight eastern time, measuring a record 5.6. it was centered near sparks, about 45 miles from oklahoma city. and legendary performer andy williams says he s suffering from bladder cancer. williams broke the news to concertgoers last night during a christmas concert in branson, missouri. andy williams is 83. he has been seen professionally since childhood. good news. president obama creawe baulhaml completed his annual physical. he s in tip-top shape. but it doesn t look like his insurance company will pay for it. he listed a bad economy as a pre-existing condition. jay leno taking a jab at president barack obama. we re exactly one year away from the 2012 presidential election. and if you pay attention to either the white house or to national democrats, you ll notice a pattern. they generally ignore criticism coming from the various gop can
write your checks. gold is good. if you have any in the backyard, if they print anymore money in washington, the gold will be good. an off balance discussion on balancing budgets. i called it you know everybody has a slogan, right? cut, balance and grow. cut the size of the government and balance that budget and grow the economy, and it is pretty simple, actually. are that and the governor getting all gesturey. your state and local taxes put that on there and and on the dependent and put it on there and subtract it and send
and merkel advocating for a balanced budget and italy is close and i like to think they follow our lead and the voices in congress have been saying, we need a balanced budget in america, we need a balanced budget amendment and now they are saying, europe should move in the direction of balancing budgets. neil: but things are bad when the french are lecturing us on economic policy but that is a separate show. you know, i am wondering, what is the republican position, and you cannot speak for all your colleagues, but if a european bank were in a lot of trouble, and they have all been hurting, concerns they could go belly up and we have a lot of exposure to them, as you know, bank of america comes to mind here, and if any of the institutions there go down it will hit us, so it is in our interest to help out. you say no.
infrastructure to move our biofuels across the midwest. so i think a balanced approach moving forward makes sense, and everyone s going to have to sacrifice, everyone s going to have to give a little bit in terms of balancing budgets in the future. explain what these subsidies do. why is it they ve been so that the ethanol industry will argue, why has it been so important? no different than the u.s. congress subsidizing conventional energy. oil and gas has been subsidized for decades. about giving the industry a little support especially when we started with ethanol refineries across iowa and across the midwest. again a public-private partnership there and about maintaining a balance moving forward so we can support american-made biofuels as opposed to importing $400 billion of oil from outside of this country. and so like a lot of industry, a
waiting for mitch. big fan. looking forward to him getting in. he had a lot to offer, bought strong bench. i d like to see it be more robust. christie get in, perry get in. extremely disappointed mitch daniels decided not to run as i was when haley barbour decided not run. they all have things going for them. governors that served in this executive position and have been successful in their own state, able to accomplish things where president obama failed miserably. talking about jobs, talking about spending, talking about balancing budgets, about the debt, these are areas where the president is extremely vulnerable. he got a bump in polls after he was successful in the killing of osama bin laden, but that has dipped down a little bit. the country is extremely happy about that, probably assume any american president would do that and kudos to this president for getting it done. when push comes to shove, it s the economy. the president failened a the republican governors have a lot to o