happen to them? i think they appreciate that the american political system is talking all about raising taxes and not nearly enough about cutting spending. you know, when the average american families gets into a little bit of financial trouble, they think of ways to cut back their spending. they don t automatically think they will go to their boss and get a raise. but that is exactly what is happening in washington today. we re talking about how much more money we ll ask the taxpayer to shoe in for this government, this bloated, overspending government. it is about ready to hit its debt ceiling the president might have won this election but he didn t win the authority to write a blank check to continue to spend and spend and spend, to hit the debt ceiling and then go blowing through it. there may not be much conversation in washington between speaker boehner and president obama but the democrats control two third of this government. they might think about having a conversation among
very graphic self-amputation as they cut back over the years. and this was one of the reasons that president obama had, at the top of his short list, the former republican senator, still a republican, chuck hagel of nebraska. he s somebody who s talked about the pentagon as being bloated, had very specific ideas about how to cut it. but mike, sam, the table, we re hearing that that trial balloon has been popped. that senator hagel has a possibility for secretary of defense, has really lost a lot of altitude. and what they discovered was, there s not a natural constituency for him. republicans, as you guys know, have fought with him over the years. he was against the war in iraq. senator mccain especially has had it out for him. democrats don t like some of the anti-gay positions rhetoric he s used in the past, some of which he s now apologized for. so republicans see a threefer. they can go against somebody
enterprise in a huge period of transition and cutback. there needs to be somebody who can really run that organization, and whatever senator hagel s gifts, those aren t it. he s not a manager, not someone who s going to have the ear of that building. that s why you saw an editorial in the washington post today really going after the hagel idea and saying he d been out there calling the pentagon bloated. i don t know who s going to argue with that, but it s not a great way to come in the door. a lot of problems with these nominations and the way they are being managed, rather. mike, thank you very much. thank you for your coverage. up next, times person of the year, the story and pictures that tell it. a body at rest tends to stay at rest. while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in m
elections, the republicans, many backed by the tea party, won the house and weakened the democrats in the senate. most of these freshman came to washington now, not to meet and negotiate, but to demolish a government they saw as bloated, rotten, tyrannical. the reason we came here, the new freshman are here, is because the american people said, enough. can you hear us now? can you hear us now? sometimes the opposition to the president took an uglier, even racist tone. false claims first heard during the campaign reemerged, questioning obama s religion, denying he was born in the country. he is not an american citizen! he is a citizen of kenya! did it surprise you that at this point in our history, they would try to de-americanize this guy? did it surprise him? you know, i think he was it struck him as absurd. and i think it strikes a majority of americans as absurd. we ve posted the
but our troops aren t going to have to do anything to do with that. brenda: gary b, what do you say? well, i agree with steve. and todd is just silly on the whole defense thing. look, we re going to double the defense spending protect at the embassy, steve has it right there. i disagree with jonas though, i d like the fiscal cliff aspect of cutting the spending, why do we need to raise taxes, why is that? that s not going to work for crying out loud. to take money from the private sector and give it to the government that s already super bloated, the most bloated it s been in the la 200 years for crying out loud is ludicrous. let s do it the right way the way that reagan did and government is shrinking and grow gdp. and it. brenda: hold on. part of the problem. brenda: i know, hold on. we ve got everybody worked up on now go to toby. hang on, i ve got to take my ear plug out, so, i m okay.