part of that is a second stage, another committee in washington looks at really making the hard decisions. and then if they don t make the hard decisions, something forces congress s hand. so again, what will the president accept as a consequence to force the congress s hand? again it might be more enjoyable to negotiate this with you this morning. i can t get into a great amount of detail, but i think that, one, we have to make sure that you can agree on the initial set of spending cuts. the process for the committee, it s essential we think that the debt ceiling get extended off into the future so it doesn t hurt the economy. then we want to make sure whatever enforcement mechanism is something, one, that if it were triggered, you know, you think the country could live with, but secondly, strong enough to compel folks to act. i think you ll see this has been a healthy debate. i think the country s learned a lot about our debt and deficit problems, i think there s been some educat
so again, what will the president accept as a consequence to force the congress hand? again it might be more enjoyable to negotiate this with you this morning. i can t get into a great amount of detail, but i think that, one, we have to make sure that you can agree on the initial set of spending cuts. the process for the committee, it s essential we think that the debt ceiling get extended off into the future so it doesn t hurt the economy. then we want to make sure whatever enforcement mechanism is something, one, that if it were triggered, you know, you think the country could live with, but secondly, strong enough to compel folks to act. i think you ll see this has been a healthy debate. i think the country s learned a lot about our debt and deficit problems, i think there s been some education here in washington, and i think what s clear is, you know, where the president stands is where the american people stand, that if we re going to do another set of deficit reduction, over
and the role of government. dan akerson, the ceo of general motors, the largest consider manufacturer in the world back from bankruptcy with a bang. then the new head of the imf, france s former finance minister christine lagarde on the fate of america, greece, the euro and more. also the knight s tell particular. why in the world is an 800-year-old religious organization being cited by murderers on at least two continents? finally, what is this green blob attacking china? first here is my take. i know you heard so much about the debt ceiling that you re probably exhausted. i think it s important to point out a few facts because this matter has been so clouded by rhetoric. did you know there is only one other country in the world that even has a debt ceiling? that s denmark. it s a strange anomaly because its debt ceiling is deliberately kept very high so it will never need to be raised. why does no one else have a debt ceiling? because when a legislature votes to autho
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
quite bizarre. people like breivik are trying to resurrect the idea of a modern day crusade, a real clash of civilizations against what they see as islamic invasion of europe. in fact, muslims make up only 3% of europe s population and that s likely to rise to between 5 and 8% by 2025 and level out at that point. but that doesn t change the reality of the anger, hatred and the violence. ironically, in breivik s nostalgic view of the medieval world, it resembles nothing so much as al qaeda, another terrorist organization fundamentally opposed to the modern world. we still don t know if breivik s boast that there are more knights waiting to act are true. but if it s depiction of the knight sounds familiar, it is because it too is mirrored in islamist terror, what a suicide bomb every, is a lone fighter acting in the so-called interest of a larger movement and willing to kill innocence to draw attention to the cause. while we ve all focused on the dangers of radical islam, the a