consultant and former advisor to hillary clinton s presidential campaign and cal thomas, fox news contributor and syndicated columnist. good to see both of you. hi. cal, i m going to start with you. the president is forecasting a year of action in 2014. if this comes to fruition, would you say it s because of pro-active measures by the president or will it be due to a reactive congress reacting to public opinion, trying to get a more favorable reputation as they want favorable votes as we move closer to midterm elections? probably a little bit of both. but if you notice in that clip and in another clip that wasn t aired about the president saying he s going to work harder, i always love it when politicians of both parties say this. it makes me think, what have they been doing up to now? loathing? what is working harder mean? 15-hour days instead of 12-hour days? given all this president has done and the train wreck of obamacare, i d like him to work less. but if working harder me
mariah, don t you have enough money. she is not the only one to do so. when the calls shoes, she answers. winter havoc ahead unfortunately as millions go home for christmas and another winter storm is crippling travel storms for millions. watching video from the seattle area where they are getting snow for the first time in two years. this weekend kicks off the big holiday travel push and officials are already warning about potential delays across the country. rick reichmuth as always has the bitter details, rick? yeah. those pictures out in the washington area the big storm is moving in across parts of the central plains. go to the maps. there is big temperature changes that will about to happen. the cold air moving in again across areas of the northern plains. take a look by tomorrow. areas 30 degrees above your typical averages this time of year. places like philadelphia and d.c. and new york city. temperatures so warm and we have been very cold and we have actually had a pr
robertson s something that was crude, saying gays are sinners. gays should not feel special over that. if you are friends with religious people, everybody is a sinner. everybody is a sinner, so i don t think you should be too insulted about being called a sinner. the other thing about this and it drives me nuts is words do not wound. there is no linkage to robertson s beliefs to violent action. that s why i brought up radical islam in the beginning. they prop up their words with beheadings. all robertson did was state his beliefs but didn t say i m going to cut off somebody s head. that s why this trend of bullying about how words hurt is so dangerous because it will limit debate. let me just try to do one thing, correct a little bit this religious view out of the bible. a lot of what he said was not
think works for them and the fact is the way these issues are kind of coming together, we will see that there will be a coming together and let s not forget the president has all his executive authority that he could use on issues like climate change and health care to reach outcomes that have a fairly broad popular support. so he has a lot of arrows in his quiver that frankly even if congress remains somewhat dysfunctional, he can get a fair of it done. let me reset with you, cal. so is 2014 going to be the year of action? well, it depends what kind of action we re talking about. richard just had some breaking news there. politicians do things that are in their self interest. who knew this? this is new to me. i never knew that before. this is a problem, by the way. as long as they focus on their self-interest, whether republicans or democrats, instead of the national interest, we re still going to have dysfunctional government. we re still going to have divided government. and the
i think 2014 needs to be a year of action. we ve got work to do to create more good jobs, to help more americans earn the skills and education they need to do those jobs, and to make sure that those jobs offer the wages and benefits that let families build a little financial security. that was president obama speaking yesterday as he tries to reignite his second term agenda amid plummeting poll numbers. the latest fox news poll shows more americans disapprove of how the president is handling issues like the economy, job creation, health care, and the deficit and with congress also getting low approval ratings, what can we expect? will we get it done in 2014, a midterm election year? joining us with some answers, richard goodstein, political