if this doesn t force congress to do mental health reform nothing will. you re jealous. i i am not jealous. i am pleased that there is something more embarrassing than me trying to dance. he was doing a country western thing. it looked like something the 7-year-old dared him to do. i bet the lot will be full this weekend. i remember priority motor sports. you know. you have had to drum up your own business in the past. isn t that right? it is a genius move. he will get all of the attention in the world. he is ridiculous. but i want to say the thing about it that i thought was the bigger faux-pas is he is a used car salesman and he has sunglasses on. everybody has a preconceived notion they were shady anyway. did you not look at that guy
vice president cheney. maybe it wasn t the best way to deal with these people. gregg: can championshiply hurtt, thank you very much. julie: most folks have to live by a budget and uncle sam has to do the same. president obama in his weekly address praising lawmakers for passing a measure that aims to bring federal spending under control. the new rule require that congress has to pay for what it spends now. critics say it ignores the biggest issue, cutting away, waysful spending. so why is the president doing pay as you go budget rules. they both favor pay-go. they signed pay-go into law last night. it requires congress to offset any spending with a cut somewhere else in the budget or an increase in taxes. president says this law will help congress to quote, act
again, found 69 early education programs, but this time they were being administered by ten agencies instead of nine. he says congress has got to cure its, quote, scourge of overspending. they ought to start with congressional committees. i have never seen such duplicate work, committees are essentially task with the same goals and objective and writing expensive reports with expensive staffs that nobody reads. well, senator coburn would like to hear from you, i m sure. i ll send him a letter. molly henneberg live in washington. thanks very much. president obama is pressing congress for money, for civilian trials, for the 9-11 suspects. civilian trials. we ll talk more about that in a second. critics on both sides of the aisle opposed to civilian trials say president obama may be fighting a losing battle. military tribunals gaining steam and if so how will that affect the administration s plans to close gitmo? i m joined now by representative
particular on targeting wasteful spending? yeah, oklahoma senator tom coburn introduced an amendment calling for hundreds of dupe cat it didn t go as far as he want, but commission the gao, department of the office, to research that. and said that the gao has already done some of that writing quote. in 2000 the gao published a report that found 69 early education programs were being administered by nine agencies and warned that such duplication would lead to ineffectiveness of the program s origin tent. this time they were administered by ten agencies instead of nine. mccluskey says that congress has to cure its quote, scourge of
president obama signed pay-go into law last night and today the president said in his weekly radio address, this is quote, a common sense rule. it was this rule that helped lead to balanced budgets in the 1990 s by making clear that we could not increase entitlement spending or cut tacks simply by borrowing more money. and it was the abandonment of this rule that allowed the previous administration and congressing to pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy and create an expensive new drug program without paying for any of it. paying is one of the things that congressional democrat want today get past and the president signed it. jamie: republicans oppose it, can you tell us why. republicans opposed pay-go because it doesn t force congress to cut spending, it just allows congress to in some cases increase taxes to pay for their spending and they say the way to get the government s ledger books under control is to stop all the spending. jamie: who have we heard from from the repu