both houses in time. but if an agreement isn t reached on time, then i ll urge the senate to hold an up or down vote on a basic package that protects the middle class from an income tax hike, extends vital unemployment insurance for americans looking for a job and lace the ground work for future progress on more economic growth and deficit reduction. heather: alexis is the executive director of the american values institute and ford owe continental is chairman of civic forum pac. thank you both for joining us. thank you for having us. heather: the pledge to work on a new bill is by no means a solution to the sweeping set of tax hikes set to hit january 1 followed by steep spending cuts. lawmakers still have to write the bill. they have opera s something that can pass both chambers. will they get it done. ford? i think they can get it done. the question is whether or not house republicans will be able
gaming? here for a fair and balanced debate, chairman of the civic forum pac and former outreach director for john mccain for president. and senior vice president of box, global and former communications advisor to president obama. thank you both for joining us. thank you for having us. heather: so are both democrats and republicans using the office of the attorney general as a political weapon? ford, i ll start with you. absolutely they both are. but i do think the democrats are pushing the limit of good taste because for them to say that the eric holder contempt vote is a political stunt is ridiculous because the stunt began when the d. o.j. lied to congress and the smell of a cover-up began as soon as the president exercised executive privilege. let s be honest. both sides are using it, but democrats are pushing the limit. heather: cory? i disagree with what he just offered. look, with fast and furious, we know how this thing began. it began in the bush administration and
taken away from you by mitt romney. and they have reacted to that as well. joined by the president of momentum analysis llc. that is democratic public opinion research firm. and ford o connell. is a former campaign advisor to john mccain s presidential campaign and chairman of the civic forum pac. welcome to both of. you thank you. martha: very interesting reactions to this. we ll look at them in a moment. but margie, let me start with you, as a woman looking at this girl julia going through your life, did it strike you as odd at all that basically one entitlement after another will get her from point a, to point b, to point c? not at all. when i talk to swing moms, wal-mart moms, they say they want to know how these government policies affect their daily lives. republicans are certainly welcome to make their own video where a woman is denied access to birth control, forced to get invasive ultrasound and not given any access to any
you can imagine. it quickly became a trending topic on twitter with people wondering what the heck was going on. an aerospace researcher said it s junk from space from the russian suyoz rocket. was it santa claus? exactly. display of fire. thank you. ron paul and mitt romney are the only two republican presidential candidates on the virginia primary ballot. newt gingrich and rick perry tried to get on but failed to collect enough valid signatures. what about the candidates that didn t even bother? michelle bachmann, jon huntsman and rick santorum? what should they do? for a fair and balanced debate, we re joined by a former aide and chairman of civic forum pac, ford o connell. good morning, gentlemen. good morning. what are we to make for the candidates who didn t even attempt to get on the virginia ballot. it s an important state, isn t it? it went for obama four years
winter still many days away before halloween. so currently a very cold, wet and snowy day here and this mess ain t going to stop any time soon. tomorrow we ll expect to see a huge clean-up effort in a lot of the tri-state area. back to you. arthel: definitely is a mess. thank you very much. stay safe. rick: let s switch gears now and talk politics. have you been watching the president this week? almost every day, a new executive order that the white house says will help one struggling group or another, from homeowners to college students, to small business owners. the washington post with an article reminding us that president clinton used a very similar strategy leading up to his bid for a second term back in 1996. this worked for bill clinton. could it work again? joining us, josh brock, and chairman of the civic forum pac and former director for john mccain s rural outreach team. thanks for being here.