look at this one, how the two parties were doing, democrats want their house and senate leadership to compromise or stand firm this is generally speaking, 63% say compromise. again, a discordance with cable television among republicans, it is a little bit lower, a majority of republicans want republicans to compromise to stick to their position but it is more narrow. it is a nature of the the democratic majority what ever you want to call it here, this democratic grouping here has always been this way, always more leaning toward compromise generally. you know what it is different from i have to give you history, when i worked for the speaker of the house, tip o neill, 90% of what he sid or i wouldn t be working with him had, go into the whip meetings, thursday morning, glazed donuts and could have fair, scene in the cowboy movies, indians about to attack, they were the indians, war whooping, yelling, screw the
you can the multiple phase of the economy are things that were dropped into his lap. afghanistan was another one. dropped into his lap. all of these things you do sense from the public, and in the poll you see it we don t know what kind of president this guy s. here we go to make this point, i love this, my favorite question answered today, when asked to judge whether president obama will be, i love that phrase, will be a successful president, 42% say they respect ready to say. now, usually somebody says undecided, i say gimme a break. but i empathize with those people, because that is a fair, very fair assessment. you know, we asked these, do these 16 characteristic tests, okay, on the president, some are personal and some professional. overall, did he much better on the the personal we see it here, much better. you know how i looked at that michelle numbers sky high and the fact it is a family they like. a year ago, asked the same question, 40 said they were not ready to ju
comparative crying? exactly. my tears are more normal than your tears it makes no sense whatsoever. it is ridiculous. i don t think the public cares. michelle and very given men permission to cry so we have got a bipartisan consensus here. the two of us say men, go ahead and cry. go for it. go for t. more guys have cried over women who have given them a hard time than you will ever know about. oh, god. don t nothing we can do that about that. true emotions in the boy/girl department not in politics, i can assure you, based on long-ago history. you come from where john boehner has become, get this education and become the speaker of the house as he soon will be, i think that calls for emotion. joan, imagine you can t imagine, you are his flack, his press secretary, you are silting with him, do you advise him not to cry what do you say? i would advise him not to cry flankly about this stuff and make someone like merck the night of the election, like at those t
response says reid is disrespecting christians. republican jim demint echoed the religious rage calling it sack yes limp joyce to hold a vote on s.t.a.r.t. around christmas. here is senator reid defending himself and shooting back. . i don t need to heart sanctimonious lectures of senator kyl and demint to remind me of what christmas means. my question, madam president is where were their concerns about christmases to in that filibuster after fill buster on a major piece of legislation during this entire congress? well, how about a nuclear arms race, a renewed one? is that a better way to celebrate christmas? look, s.t.a.r.t. s important enough to stick around, at least another week. finally, doize say, not as i do here we go. hypocrisy time. republican senator john cornyn requested millions in pet projects in a new spending bill bebee indict signing on with all that ballyhoo on the earmark
give. the democrats have to give on some of their ideas, republicans on theirs. that s how we are going to solve the problems facing this country. let s take a look at these numbers, here they are, the brand new nbc/ wall street journal poll out tonight, 59% of the country likes the deal we have been talking about for weeks now, 36% disapprove, 61 say, 61% it is a fair compromise, just 23% think that obama gave up too much. 10% say the republicans gave up. so there is a little bit of tilt there, to say the least. what do you think of that tilt, among the people that don t like the deal it is the the left that doesn t like it a lot more than the right who seems to relatively like it. so let s try this question. ask the american people, would you be in favor of tax countries for wealthy people if you knew that it added $70 billion to the deficit, money we are going to have to borrow from china? chris, you and i know the answer to that question the way you ask the question has to a l