economy, hurt revenues and likely exacerbated the deficit slowing down economic growth but now we have to deal with the deficit panel s recommendations and there have been other groups as well, the former senator domenici have come up with a strong plan and you ll see the president put that out for congress to deal with and we ll see if they ll take it searupsly in the house. governor 2012 you started out as a civil rights attorney. clarence fwchlt jones, former confidant of dr. king will matter to you. he wrote in the huffington post it is not easy to consider challenging the first african-american to be elected as president of the united states but regrettably i believe that the time has come to do. . will the president face a challenge from the left? i think it s unlikely the president will face any serious challenge within the democratic party. you can get a fringe candidate to run. could somebody throw in their name and, yeah it s possible but
he s saying that. he also was on the deficit panel so he knows what he s talking about, all the ones that proposed the important cuts, not just discretionary spending which are some of the billions you re talking about but doing the hard work of the entitlement program. right. it s so easy to talk about the programs when it s a little bit of earmark spending that doesn t amount to a whole lot. when you talk about addressing the problems of medicare, medicaid, social security and defense, when you get those, that s when the real cuts need to come. they have to come from both sides. one will use it as a hammer against the other in a couple of years in the election if it gets to that. coming up straight ahead, talk of death panels has all of america talking so democrats killed the proposal but now the white house is sneaking it back in. you have to hear what is about to happen to you. then the profanity patrol is hitting the streets. police writing tickets for swearing in public.
catastrophe. millions of out of work americans are heading into the holidays not knowing if they will get the unemployment benefits they ve now come to depend on. now republicans are using those benefits to barter for tax cuts. john hendren is joining us from washington with more. hi, john. reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. these are tough times for the unemployed and the president s deficit panel is calling for tough medicine for the rest of us. midnight tuesday, the safety net was snatched from under 2 million jobless workers after democrats and republicans failed to agree to extend unemployment benefits. we, the unemployed, are jobless through no fault of our own. reporter: all 42 republican senators now say they will block other bills until the bush tax cuts are extended for everyone, including the wealthy. putting american workers ahead of millionaires and billionaires should be our priority and it shouldn t be a tough choice to make. we also feel strongly tha
state of alaska, and 8 percent of the ballots in taylor s bid in 1998 were disqualified and now over a day before the count begins, we get a new standard that could have been issued two months ago that doesn t follow state statute so we are saying, look, the legislature enacted a law, the legislators were elected by those if alaska and the law should be followed. the same rule she expected to fall under when she started the bid and that is why she had hundreds of thousands of advertising dedicated to teaching people how to spell her name. shepard: and your views on the debt commission with early proposals, $200 billion, a drop in the bucket on the total debt. what do you make of that deficit panel s recommendation? guest: i have not reviewed the details but this country is in trouble. if we did not get control of the deficit we will have an upside down economy as a consequence of
of the corruption. when we say pay as you go you want have people spending money. my opponent voted to raise the debt ceiling now nancy pelosi just appointed her to be on the deficit panel. i wouldn t trust her with my money. sean: where do you stand on national defense? how dangerous do you think barack obama s policies are? what concerns that our representatives aren t speaking up against him. i think he put allies in danger, israel, britain. my opponent has not stood up to that we have a lot of veterans, people who served overseas. people are troubled by what they see happening. she has not stood up against what president obama has done. sean: there are a lot of mart people that smart people that i m listening to that are not confident that we are there yet. one thing i say in life, i like the idea, karl rove wrote a great column, barack obama overpromised and