health care and on bank regulation and on immigration and on a whole host of things, he s got to beat the republicans politically. he s got to beat them on spending, and he s got to back them into a corner politically. he s got a chance to be more consequential in a second term this is usual what s his one, two, three agenda. gun control, immigration reform, and number one is what chuck was grilling him on today, which is his strategy on beating the republicans on debt and spending. fiscal victory then immigration and gun control. is that how you see it one, two, three, chuck? he can t do anything until the budget showdowns are over. right. and they can t be piecemeal. you re not going to get immigration, not going to get guns. i question whether guns ultimately is going to get done right now. the president himself seems to believe if public opinion is not with him to get it done, then
agenda which we re looking at the challenges of in a huffington post series called the road forward. if he wants to go forward, if he wants to complete the job on health care and on bank regulation and on immigration and on a whole host of things, he s got to beat the republicans politically. he s got to beat them on spending, and he s got to back them into a corner politically. he s got a chance to be more consequential in a second term this is usual what s his one, two, three agenda. gun control, immigration reform, and number one is what chuck was grilling him on today, which is his strategy on beating the republicans on debt and spending. fiscal victory then immigration and gun control. is that how you see it one, two, three, chuck? he can t do anything until the budget showdowns are over. right. and they can t be piecemeal. you re not going to get immigration, not going to get guns. i question whether guns ultimately is going to get done right now. the pr
he can t do anything until the budget showdowns are over. right. hand they can t be piecemeal. you re not going to get immigration, not going to get guns. i question whether guns ultimately is going to get done right now. the president himself seems to believe if public opinion is not with him to get it done, then he s going to not going to be able to do that with congress going all the way i think that s the second question. i think the most consequential issue he has to deal with after the budget shutdown is simply implementing obama care, implementing his health care plan. making it work. that s right. that is going to define his legacy wait a minute. wait a minute, chuck. i think you re right. a lot of obama care is administrative. it is just the grinding details of administrative government. building it essentially. but the other thing is the republicans are going to twri to attack medicaid, chris, and medicare, but medicaid in particular. if they drain and slash
the next few days, his influence as a top tier candidate has effectively ended, barring some revelation that suggests everything we talked about is, in fact, not accurate, which i think is unlikely. well, chris, it just seems to be a campaign whose time has come and gone. thank you so much. and up next, gene on the tax and budget showdowns. do you have a question you want noticeness? whether it s about 2012 politics, what s happening on the hill or the crisis in the middle east, join me wednesday for a live web chat between 2:15 and 2:45 eastern online at andrea.msnbc.com. o0 c1 2 o0 hey guys, what can i get for you? i d like a decaf 360 calories please.
that we ought to be talking about. okay. let s talk about the gridlock there in washington, as the government delayed that shutdown by a valid six weeks. we were worrying about it a couple weeks ago when the house passed its spending bill. now, you ve said you want to end these budget showdowns with a two-year budget. how would that work and what kind of opposition would you have to it? well, there s actually growing support in the senate for a biannual budget proposal. it had a hearing yesterday before the budget committee and it s got had very strong support in that budget committee hearing. you know, the budget process in washington is not working. only twice in the last 30 years has a budget been produced on time given the current process. every president since ronald reagan has said, we ought to go to biannual budgeting. it will give congress a chance in the first year of the budget to put together the budget and the second year, to provide oversight and accountability. it w