little political grapevine. the efforts to cope with the sequester has been exaggerated. civilian employees could have as few as six, not 22 or 11 unpaid days off. defense secretary chuck hagel said the defense department is trying to find other places to cut. the pentagon is not the only place that dire sequester warnings have not come to fruition. last week the irs cancelled one of its five furlough days. a little budget shifting allowed the faa to avoid furloughing air traffic controllers, and as for all of those threats of exceedingly long lines at tsa check points, that has not really transpired either. in yet another example of your taxpayer dollars at work, the government has been spending tens of millions of dollars in subsidies to help farmers who
florida, for example. we registered almost 400,000 new voters in 2011 and 2012. that is people going to the doors and knocking on doors and going to events and registering folks. that is a huge difference in a state. even a state as big as florida or texas. when you start getting numbers like that. hundreds of thousands of new people going to the polls and given a chance to participate in their democracy and inspired by that volunteer, that s how you actually change the electorate, but then you have to turn them out. do you have the money? that s what we re doing. we started doing our grassroots fund-raising and that s what we re going to need because it is such a large state. jeremy bird, thanks for coming in. good to see you. as the senate gets more polarized, any wonder why it is on sequester. first, white house soup of the day, mushroom and leek. promise you, no leaks out of the white house press office today.
jobs and middle class family physical congressional families fail to compromise. virginia, a state that could be among the hardest hit by the spending cuts, of course, home for the number two house republican eric cantor. canter s message yesterday was the president is making too much of the sequester and, oh, yeah, when it comes to virginia, it might be really bad. we heard the president say last week that he was going to be forced because of the sekeseration to let criminals loose on the street. the president is off campaigning in my my state, newport news, virginia. we are concerned about the comm commonwealth, as we are on all states. the president will have a surprise guest with him today. scott ridgeual. a former car dealer whose road district stands to be hurt by the pentagon furloughs.
meetings that were going to happen. mcconnell s spokesman said, no, there is no active negotiation from the white house. that would get in the way of the president s campaigning. there is fingerpointing, a ton of it. the only republicans in the entire country rejecting a balanced compromise are republicans in this building. hope springs eternal. the president can sit down with harry reid tonight and work with senate democrats who have the majority in the senate to move a bill. at some point, we ve got to do some governing. there are are two potential sort of last-minute solutions to the sequester that neither sides want to unite around. the final white house offer to boehner on the grand bargain included nearly $1 trillion in spending cuts over ten years. could it be as a good-will gesture the white house offers one year of those cuts, which come out to $90 billion as a replacement to the sequester this year? then there s the plan senate republicans could offer this week, they
manuel it s tuesday, february 26th and you re about to watch daily rundown with chuck todd. thank you, athan and carolina is my second favorite basketball team in the acc. another day closer to sequester, another day of public posturing and what appeared to be no serious attempts to stop the sequester or even meetings between the white house and congressional republicans to pretend that they might think about stopping the sequester. the only thing different today is the address, that s newport news, virginia, where the president takes his pr campaign to the docks. we ll all be in the tide water region of virginia where workers will sit idle when they should be repairing ships and a carrier sits idle when it should be deploying to the persian gulf. the president will take a tour and make reports. virginia s largest industrial employer. according to the white house, highlight the devastating impact that the sequester will have on