and a way of personal disclosure, i ve endorsed her in the middle of a campaign. and you don t want anybody to say, you know, star, i know a lot. and the next guest not running for a the seat of economy, formerly from president clinton, lane davis, a good guy, a good friend to all. and i want to discuss the issues that the president faces and how he s doing and how we have a republican, a democrat, and another democrat so we re going to try to be as fair and balanced and i guess i ve become the or republican. the way we re going to ask each of the panelists, first, we re going to ask them to give a letter grade and they will hold it up and i m going to call on them to give an explanation why they gave the letter grade, a, b, c, d, or f, depending how it runs. how is the president doing on immigration? pat, star, and lane, if you would let me know.
structural. he he was bequeathed to him as a result of two wars we can t pay for. president bush s 48% increase in discretionary spending and passage of the medicare prescription drug program, with three tax cuts. what we have is a situation where what we bring in, we spend more than that amount and yes, we need to get out of it. do we need to get out of it right now and possibly, you know, go into another double-dip recession? i think that s a bad idea. mike: i now george bush would get blamed for this. george bush s administration is responsible for spending more money than they took in and kicking the can down the road. i will agree with you on that, i m not going to argue, but 787 billion dollar stimulus package. 10% of our debt. mike: let s keep reminding ourselves when we add in the health care costs which is going to be more than the supposed savings, a lot more, this president inherited let me just say he inherited something, but what he s done with it has made it wors
recklessly irresponsible as democrats and spent money and prided themselves for not having raised taxes, but what they actually did was the same thing, which is not balance the budget. we ve got to go to another topic. we ve got a new medicare, medicaid czar he s going to run cms. basically one of the biggest positions in the government. democrat senator max baucus had a problem with the fact that the president made an interim appointment. a recess appointment. therefore, there was no hearing. welcome, sure, i mean, congress lovers to have control of these things and presidents always resisted at both parties, but is it surprising to anyone that the president would pick someone to run medicare and medicaid who supports the president s policies on medicare and medicaid? isn t it the health care is in fact a redistribution of wealth. we have progressive tax. caroline. all of the programs are redistribution of wealth. homeless programs, any federal program that you re talking a
the center for urban renewal. and a way of personal disclosure, i ve endorsed her in the middle of a campaign. and you don t want anybody to say, you know, star, i know a lot. and the next guest not running for a the seat of economy, formerly from president clinton, lane davis, a good guy, a good friend to all. and i want to discuss the issues that the president faces and how he s doing and how we have a republican, a democrat, and another democrat so we re going to try to be as fair and balanced and i guess i ve become the or republican. the way we re going to ask each of the panelists, first, we re going to ask them to give a letter grade and they will hold it up and i m going to call on them to give an explanation why they gave the letter grade, a, b, c, d, or f, depending how it runs. how is the president doing on immigration? pat, star, and lane, if you would let me know.
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