Nuthouse. [laughter] [applause] the place where some wackos closed the government and throw hundreds of thousands of people out of work and then they turn around and say they are creating jobs. These wackos that disrupt funerals for military personnel who died abroad and then they say they are doing that to strengthen our military. It is absolutely crazy, absolutely irrational. This on the other end of our national mall. Total irrationality and the shining ideals of our nation. Its not two separate cities. Its the same city and its our national capital. It is very representative of what america is all about. The irrational and the ideals. Those two opposites have defined my life totally because i grew up as a child imprisoned him barb wire american prison camps. Pearl harbor was bombed and overnight, american citizens of japanese answers straight ancestry were looked at with suspicion and fear and outright hatred. But despite that, young japaneseamericans, like all americans, rushed to
The bat the fiscal cliff, all reports are that congress can retroactively prevent the tax hikes set to begin today. It has one more day to prevent automatic spending cuts that take in on wednesday. Our coverage of this class continues this morning on washington journal. If you want all along, go to c span. Org fiscalcliff. We will begin with your take on this emerging deal. Democrats republican independents remember to send us a twit a tweet at twitter. Com. Facebook. Com cspan. Or at cspan. Org. The senate voted around 2 00 a. M. Eastern time. Here are the senators that voted no. Michael bennet, democrat of colorado, along with senator tom carper, democrat of delaware, senators grassley, harkin, as well as these four republicans, senators lee, paul, rubio, and shelby. Not a boating were senators jim demint, the republican of South Carolina. He is retiring. Senators kirk and lautenberg as well. Here was the reaction from all four House Republican leaders. It put this out in a joint sta
Guaranteed failure. We hope within the scope of these conversations we are able to move the ball forward. They will have to decide what the scope is. How much we want to fight off and shoe as part of these negotiations. That will be one of the early decisions we try and reach. The good news is that we hope that our republican colleagues have learned the right lesson from the debacle we just went through, unnecessary pain. It did not have to be that way. We are hoping that our colleagues will put down the clubs and recognize that this negotiation should be between the two budgets and no one should try to gain advantage again by threatening to shut down the government or default on our debt. If we can put down the clubs and have a serious conversation, maybe we can advance. Murray,re calling pat saying that you are going to look for Common Ground. Common ground is different than compromise. When of the areas where there might be Common Ground is to try to get rid of some or all of these
What are the chances, particularly now that republicans have given up a tax increase in january and are taking a hard line now, what are the chances of getting a bigger agreement to tackle our deficit . That is a very fair question. I was disappointed in the fact that the supercommittee did not achieve a positive result. In this latest round, the democrats have been trying to get to the negotiating table since march. That is when the house passed the budget and the Senate Democrats passed their budget. The normal courses to begin negotiations. We were blocked by republicans in the house and senate. Now were finally going to the table. Here is one thing i know. Talks do not guarantee success. You mentioned examples where we were not able to get funding accomplished. If you refuse to talk, you are guaranteed failure. We hope within the scope of these conversations we are able to move the ball forward. Now the conferees, the negotiators they will have to , decide what the scope is. How mu
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