were people not getting their first responders in? no. why is the president creating the hysteria when we should get government under control. why is he doing that if he is doing that? lost in the shuffle you look at everything coming up the cuts are on march 1st march 27th the continuing resolution that expiring. fast forward to may we are up against another debt ceiling debate. those may make the sequestor look like petty cash. the sequestor of course was president obama s idea the debt debate back in 2011. thank you rngs doug. yesterday the president met with governors to discuss what the is he quest tore cuts will mean for tear state. arizona governor jan brewer was among them. on the record she had this to say when asked does the president give any glimmer of hope?
i m act which encouraged. howard is right, demographics are changing politics and as they change on immigration, they will change on climate and a number of areas i think the american people will demand senators and congressman find common ground a lot more effectively. we re beginning to see that in the first three weeks of this session. let me say also senator and governor dean, the demographics will also change the debt debate. as steve rattner said, we re stealing from the next generation. i can tell you my 25-year-old son and a lot of his friends that even come from more progressive backgrounds are a bit more libertarian, a bit more skeptical of their government because they see the government today stealing from them. so we will have cross currents here. certainly, the demographics are break weigh from a republican party stuck in 1994, but the economics certainly tend to go the other way.
dispointing that is for him, on a personal level. and we ll not know the answer to that. when i look at the roots of it. it seems to be perhaps entitlements, issue of entitlements and ronald reagan, you know, spoke so much about that and about taxes as well. well, i think that the real turning point for this president was that debt debate over the debt ceiling in july and august of 2011 and there an opportunity there and it came close, and i will not ascribe blame because there is probably enough going around when it looked like the president and john boehner were able to make a grand bargain, 3, $4 trillion in deficit reduction, it fell apart and rightly or wrongly it seems clear that the president and the white house decided at that point, we can t do business with these guys. boehner can t control the tea party element in his own house. and we re going to have to start running for president and running for president, pushing a liberal agenda. really from mid-summer,
year was criticizing the congress, democrats got a little upset at that. then obama said more republicans in congress because the senate is controlled by democrats and republicans control the house. so it is going to be, i think it will take some time and there will be some votes that republicans want. they want the assault weapons ban vote. this is such a big showdown between the nra and obama. obama didn t take on the nra in his first term. this will be a big, big battle. jon: as you point out, more than half of congress has an a-rating from the nra. yes. that s right. and that is a big problem for the white house. they know this is an uphill climb. they have other things on their plate. they have obviously got the debt debate. they have immigration reform. they want to get to energy. how many political capital is obama going to spend? we shall see. jon: that will be the interesting fight. bob cusack from the hill. . thanks, jon. jenna: well the doctor is in now on a very small
barbara boxer suggested through recommendation of president and vice president they would consider federal funding for those wanting to undertake armed security to protect the kids. we re awaiting the president s recommendations tomorrow. the fight over sandy relief as it relates to the debt debate, the house is taking it up now as we speak. we ll discuss with the fox all-stars when we return. [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus presents the cold truth.