october 1st of 2010. why haven t they done what they re supposed to do? what about this issue of compromise? here s where this started. democrats started at obviously they had a budget that didn t cut anything that you guys wanted to have cut. then it got moved and it got up to 33 they have come out to $33 billion, which is halfway of the $61 billion. why not you got that deal, you got it done, you re going to get president obama to sign that where you re cutting $33 billion. take that as a victory and move to the next fight? our job is to push as hard as we can and push and stand up for the american people. is there a point that you say, okay, we ll get to the point but not shut down the government or do you have to go all the way through. we have to see what happens. we haven t seen anything yet. we haven t seen any bills that indicate this. we ve seen a couple of press releases. let s see what they actually put on the table. all we re asking for is 2.6 pennies less bei
what about this issue of compromise? here s where this started. democrats started at obviously they had a budget that didn t cut anything that you guys wanted to have cut. then it got moved and it got up to 33 they have come out to $33 billion, which is halfway of the $61 billion. why not you got that deal, you got it done, you re going to get president obama to sign that where you re cutting $33 billion. take that as a victory and moo s we can and push and stand up for the american people. is there a point that you say, okay, we ll get to the point but not shut down the government or do you have to go all the way through. we have to see what happens. we haven t seen anything yet. we haven t seen any bills that indicate this. we ve seen a couple of press releases. let s see what they actually put on the table. all we re asking for is 2.6 pennies less being spent out of every dollar. and they re saying that s extreme. and, mark, let me have you wrap this up. if there is a
they re angry with government, they re angry with government policies. they stand with the tea party, not with people like john cornyn that just want to get it done in the old style. jenny, when you look at this, there s also a lot of the public that they re tired of all the washington games. if you shut down the government, that looks like a washington game. it does look like a washington game and it s too bad that congress and the white house are willing to let that happen. we haven t had a budget pass since 2009. this budget, the continuing resolution we re talking about, is for this fiscal year that started in october of last year. october 1st of 2010. why haven t they done what they re supposed to do? what about this issue of compromise? here s where this started. democrats started at obviously they had a budget that didn t cut anything that you guys wanted to have cut. then it got moved and it got up to 33 they have come out to $33 billion, which is halfway of the $61 b
they gave one group placebo, and another group they gave echinacea. so it didn t cut down on the symptoms of the common cold. we put $5 billion a year into our alternative cold remedies. it s an enormous amount, and it s a very good thing we re starting to study this. this was a very well done study of over 700 people, and i m convinced it shows maybe it works for some people, but on the whole it does not work. martha: so the fact they used a placebo undercuts the idea that even psychologically if you feel like you re going to get better faster, maybe sometimes you do. the mind s a very powerful thing, right? you know, that s a great point, and that s how i thought echinacea was working to begin with. they did another group that got nothing. one group got nothing, one group got a placebo, and one group got the echinacea. it showed no effect. now, we ve seen this already with vitamin c, other
states, even if you re from a different political party, shouldn t you keep that conversation between two gentlemen, or is it your view that any conversation with the president, even if it s in a back room, can be broadcast later? look, my bottom line is we were frustrated with the federal response, and i think the lessons learned can be helpful going forward. i was on your show after katrina, and i criticized not just a democratic president but a republican president when i didn t think the government did what it should have done after katrina. i think it s important to know what worked and didn t work with regards to this oil spill response, and it was frustrating that at the didn t cut through the red tape or the bureaucracy, even after we asked them repeatedly as i described in the book. there was literally oil coming. there are boats, skimmers, booms sitting down there. they re not deploying those resources. we bring the federal official in charge of the federal response in a bl