a significant number of so-called tea party members just voted for this thing. as a matter of fact, a lot of tea party members were on board for boehner s first plan. we got the two-minute warning on the president going to make a statement in the rose garden. very quickly, it does seem as if some of these tea party members took an incremental victory. they said, this is the step and they voted that way. absolutely. that goes to reed s point. i know a lot of my friends on the left want to paint this one size fits all. this is not the tea party. they come from different perspectives and bring a different energy. i think we want to go back to the beginning on this whole debt discussion. all of this could have been avoided if harry reid did what he should have done on december 8th and presented a debt bill why they controlled the house, senate and had that executive vote. they wanted to play politics with this. harry wanted to kick it to this new republican congress. be careful what yo
trillion in cuts over ten years, raises the debt ceiling about about the same amount, sets up a bipartisan committee to find other ways to trim another trillion and change from the deficit. think of it as a deficit posse. it calls for both chamber of commerce eventually to pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. they don t actually have to pass it, they just have to vote on it. and the president and house speaker admit that the plan is not perfect, but hey, there s a deadline tomorrow. here s what the president said, then you ll hear from a freshman republican who, by the way, is dressed casually. give him a break, it was late on sunday night. now, is this the deal i would have preferred? no. but this compromise does make a serious downpayment on the deficit reduction we need and gives each party a strong incentive to get a balanced plan done before the end of the year. and to have bold changes to something so systematically broken is going to take time. i u
disappeared with ransom money and won t say if the suspect is dead or alive. a folk hero to connellment and nearly a decade after the attacks on 9/11, several new yorkers are calling for the name of the area to be dropped. people like construction workers involved in rebuilding ground zero say that the term stabilizes death and destruction as opposed to hope and for the future, which is what real estate people want to refer to it as. meanwhile, the site is home to the brand new 9/11 memorial which will be dedicated in a special ceremony on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, but president obama and former president george w. bush will both be in attendance. all right. and those are your quick headlines today. all right, let s talk about the tea partiers and how they all factor into the debt discussion. called extreme, crazy right wingers and even just plain stupid because they won t
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increases are a job killer, particularly when you have over 9% unemployment. norm orn steen, that is disingenuous to say the least, that he realized they were a job killer, why he extended the bush era tax cuts. there s one reason only the president extended those bush era tax cuts and that s because he needed a deal to extend unemployment. this is the kind of misinformation campaign that is continuing on capitol hill. i sent out a tweet a couple of hours ago, i said, could anybody, anybody provide me with research, not opinion, but research that tax increases kill jobs. please send my way if you can. i haven t gotten anything that is of substance that s been sent my way. tell me if you know of research that indicates that tax increases kill jobs because there are no tax increases anywhere in this bill that covers the next ten years. no, of course, we re seeing a lot of disingenuousness across the board. a lot are the talking points, republicans repeating all the time. we