taken this particular show over the cliff? we did it about 6:01 this morning. lay on the gas. by the way, the wall street journal is calling for republicans to call the president s bluff on. we ll get into that later. coming up, in ordford ceo a mulally. also nbc political director chuck todd, the new york times, the lead story on her front-page story on the winners and losers in the big game of government subsidies. also, ed burns is going to be here. our guy, ed burns. the great ed burns a little later. and up next, mike allen with the top stories in the politico playbook. but first, bill karins with a look at the forecast. hey, bill. hey, willie, good monday morning. i ve called these temperatures ridiculously warm. a lady sent me an e-mail and said you know what s ridiculous? i ve had my air conditioning on in arkansas in the last two days in december. it s been that warm especially in the middle of the country, and it s spreading to the east. there s a lot of fog
discretionary spending so you would argue so you re actually arguing that we don t need to reform entitlements? i think entitlement reform is a social security and medicare, i mean, is a very, very back seat issue. what the president is trying to do is to make that the major issue to protect his unnecessary government spending. it s what democrats have always done, what clinton called their bluff on. what he s trying to do is say we have to reform social security and medicare. no, eventually we do when the boomers retire. right now, cut the spending that he put in the budget. and you ll be able to bring this deficit down to manageable proce proportions? so when the democrats are saying let s axe $100 billion out of this and that s not touching the entitlements, social security and medicare and medicaid, you think that s a step in the right direction? absolutely. and i think the next step would be to block grants medicaid, not