occur? i think what we re going to look at down the road, particularly as you talk about serious budget and deficit negotiations is a question of now the president. if he decides to move on entitlement reform, where is the liberal wing of his party? where is the left ring of his par party. before even raising the notion of entitlement reform, talking about cpi, cost of living index, maybe changing some of those areas. grievances as well. add eavesdropping to the list. there s a lot of liberal complaints that have been under the surface because you have loyalty to democratic president. as the second term ticks on, people start staking out their own interest and caring less about the president. winners or losers, the president wins without a doubt here. he did not negotiate. republicans thought he would
effect. first you had benghazi that is what they say publicly. we have had stories about the democrats doing the immigration bill asking the president not to getg involved because doing just fine. when he got involved in the deficit negotiations they went south.in problem this president simply does not havero significant political skill at that level.ot he doesn t like to do that sort ofgn thing. he pulls himself away from the hurry but burley ofay politics and this like thepe nsa scandal where he hasin refused to come forward and defend a defensible program. paul: he gave a press conference and for eight days, radio silence? all of that is eroding.in paul: finally he went on charlie rose, we created fisa court. no he didn t. in 2008 it was applied to
outsiders, insueders on capitol hill. this is a cumulative peck. first benghazi. what s the they say publicly. we had stories about the democrats doing the immigration bill, asking the president not to get involved because they are doing just fine. that s because when he got involved in the deficit negotiations they went south. the problem is that this president simply does not have significant political skills at that level. he does not like to do that sort of thing. so he pulls himself away from the pearl, early politics and in this case, nsa scandal where he has refused to come forth and defend a defensible program. for a full week. for a full week. gave a press conference and for eight days radio silence. nothing. nothing. all of that is eroding support. we created the support. no, we didn t.
the buildup of these problems, finally shows up when you see a report like yesterday which shows what does it mean over a ten-year period of time? debt doesn t kill you the first day. it s how it builds up. but you have to look at how it builds up. and now it s really building up. and deficits don t kill you, mika, the first day, the first year, the second year. as jeffrey and i were saying, back in january of 2009, it s not the deficits that kill you. it s wasting the money which they wasted during the stimulus, as jeffrey and i said, that kills you. we can afford short-term deficits if we get something in return over the long run. so tom, what s the solution? we argue that the president hasn t put any details forward. the white house would come back and say in 2012 he offered $4 trillion in cuts. during the deficit negotiations, he offered $900 billion in spending cuts. but then when you pick through what the cuts are, is that the
okay, maybe that s hyperbole. but just be a tiny bit, i mean, mandatory gay marriage, in which every single married straight person had to immediately divorce their spouse, and accept a state-assigned same-gender spouse to replace them would probably be more popular than what john boehner proposed this week. what bjorn baijohn boehner is a is making medicare available to fewer americans. as it happens, there is brand-new polling out today on how americans feel about the idea of congress using these deficit negotiations to make cuts to medicare.รง 79% of americans say they do not want congress to touch medicare in these deficit negotiations. 79%. if you want to get specific about john boehner s proposal, what he wants to do to medicare is to raise the eligibility age from 65 to 67. and as it turns out, there is also recent polling on that specific proposal. and it is also super unpopular. look at this. almost 70% of americans say they