talked about today. you have taking the entire debt crisis off the table until after the 2012 election. you have non-existent cuts that don t solve anything. andrea: one person that came back to the house floor last night to vote on this, with a smile on their face, though bob did not, gabrielle giffords. she voted in favor of the vote, i guess probable angered the left, bob. bob: it didn t. i was happy to see her. i was worried about her being in the crowd but she got to see her colleagues. wonderful to see her in there. one thing you mention about this committee, the select committee, this is important, because what you are hearing, all the screaming and yelling from the committee chairs on both sides saying oh, that is my territory. you guys are going to this committee can take away my power. they can. it is a very sweeping mandate for them to do things that go in territory of other people. if they do something it will cause a real ruckus. these guys could have got
washington. now back to new york and the five. monica: welcome back to the five. time for your 2012 round up. first up, andrea, michele bachmann running for president. running for the republican nomination for president sends out an e-mail yesterday to supporters citing vice president s biden comment about the tea party being terrorists, or not disagreeing with the characterization of the tea party as terrorists and is now fundraising off of that. andrea: wake up, bob. bob: i thought you were talking about republican presidential candidate. time for a break. andrea: she should monica: go ahead. bob is asleep. andrea: go back to bed. the viewers would prefer. bob: i m sure they would. i read e-mail, too. andrea: if i were her, i d raise money on this.
to inject more politics. since you can t close the deficit with just spending cuts, it also means reforming the tax code so the wealthiest americans and the biggest corporations pay their fair share. everyone has to chip in. andrea: there it is. there it is. shared sacrifice. bob, don t you think now that this is an opportunity for the democrats to make their case for revenue raisers? this is what republicans are fearing, that because of the defense cuts that will automatically be triggered, they might have to exchange the defense cuts in exchange for tax revenue? bob: i certainly hope so. this thing is amisball piece of legislation. i said it yesterday and i will say it again. it was done with a gun to obama s head. he went through it. i wish he hadn t. if you notice yesterday, the progressive and the black caucus voted against this bill. i m glad they did. if i could have voted i would have voted against it, too. from a liberal stand point,
justice department suing a state? bob: let s move on to something else. the t.s.a. now is the israelis haver for a long time done screening when you go into the country. i been through that. you have been through it, right? a long list of questions and they stare at you. look to see if you have done any drugs when you came in. andrea: no wonder they re staring at you. bob: it s a way they go through a series of psychological fraud questions in a way to see if there is something about you that doesn t fit. israelis have done that with three decades of doing it, but now we do it in boston. how would you feel about the tas that we love so much here in boston doing a dr. freud test. i d rather have them ask me questions than touch my junk, if that is what you are asking. bob: they do both. they ask you junk.
friday we probably find out 15 million people is out of work here. this is a jobs issue. the states can bring jobs back to americans by sending illegals out or making it seem more difficult to hire illegal. andrea: how do unions feel about this? bob: well, they are a mixed bag depending which union do you know the jobs that the people take are jobs that even when we had good employment, that the americans didn t want them. that is not true. bob: do you want to do land scaping? monica: yes, and i in the past. bob: god help the lawn. monica: this is not a politicallish. the democrats had a ball politicizing this. the president talked to lorasa last week. this is a rule of law issue. are we a country of laws or not? bob: you are right. we have to change topic. if we get the law, arrest guys that hire the people. andrea: do you think this is the best visual to have