playing out the spending is fairly even between the pro s simpson and the anti-simpson group, and he is holding up so far and there has to be a game changer for congressman simpson to lose. shira, it is interesting to see that the bailout is very much a focus on the ads. but read into it a little bit. if mike simpson were to go down, what message would that send regarding the 2014 midterms? is. well, it would empower a lot of the tea party groups or the conservative groups and empower them ahead of the few big, big contests, for example mississippi and thad walker s fight there or maybe kansas down the line, but so much, as you said earlier focused on this one date in may, it is going to be difficult for the tea party to gain a whole lot of momentum out of that, and that said, it is a club for growth versus the chamber of commerce battle when you talk about outside of the groups, and this is a big mantle
care spending that the president wants. former white house chief of staffer bowles and simpson, a republican from wisconsin, say wisconsin wisconsin were close to a deal. their legacy is on the line. i don t know when it will happen, but it will happen in these four years or he has no legacy at all. if he can t cut the mustard with solvency of social security under honest appraisals of the trustees and he can t get a handle on an automatic pilot rig of health care, he will have a failed presidency. reporter: blunt speaking congressman simpson. if congress and the president can t reach a deal, interest rates will rise and the folks hit hardest by that will be the middle class. shepherd: wendell goler at the white house this afternoon. thank you. when mission control called the international space station this morning, nobody answered. a communications blackout that left the crew cut off from earth. we ll get to that, plus drew peterson. the cop who keeps losing his
and if, for example, congressman simpson would give a little on tax hikes, would you go deeper? is there a negotiation to be made here? i certainly think we have to in order to keep the entitlement programs that we have. in order to save those, we have to make drastic changes in overhaul in both social security, medicare/medicaid, in order to protect the programs we have, we re going to have to make sure they re solid. and presently right now, we re going down the path that will not allow to be solvent in the future. the cost is too expensive for the amount that was given back to each individual. and so we have to do something big. and that s everyone has to have concessions. and we have to have compromise. and that s why mike and i along with our working group and working with the gang of six, we put over 150 members now have signed on to a go-big coalition that says $4 trillion plus in savings. doesn t going big, meaning concessions on both sides on every level.
help you negotiate your historian fees? because i m very good at that. i know how to make people money. and i think you probably have failed miserably in this category looking at newt s i have not known my value. yes. we ll get you there. $1.6 million for a historian. up next, the politico playbook, we ll also talk to heath shuler and mike simpson. and for anyone through a bad flight delay, we ve got a new one for you. a standoff on a plane when passengers are told to cough up gas money. what? that s next in morning papers, but first, let s go to bill karins with a check on the forecast. pass the jar around the aisle. good morning, mika, a lot of people had airport delays on the eastern sea board with the clouds and rain around and severe storms in the southeast. we had 17 tornadoes yesterday. november outbreak. we get about one every november,
mike barnicle, i don t understand how you can leave things out of this equation. congressman simpson, listening to you and congressman shuler, and any number of public officials who have appeared here over the last year talking about exactly this situation. right. wouldn t we all have been t&c% people as a congress if we had just bitten the bullet and gone with the bowles/simpson recommendations? two years ago now? i certainly wish that that would have been recommended to congress. and to tell you the truth, in just my conversations with people, i think you put that on the floor, it probably passes. i can t say that for sure, but i think it probably does. you know, most people here, i think are willing to take a tough vote. and it s going to be a tough vote no matter what comes out of the super committee or what proposal to address our fiscal situation is. it s going to be a tough vote. i just want a tough vote to mean something. and $1.2 trillion doesn t get us