let me finish tonight with a simple proposition. it s how president obama can get congress to pass a jobs bill. call it porking out. got it? i bet you do already. all he has to do is combine the projects that all the members of congress have asked for in their districts, the dams they want fixed, road project, sewer and water projects they want funded. take all those projects in one big, fat bill, a wedding of pork projects and send it up to capitol hill, then alert every media outlet about what s at stake in each hamlet in the country, pet projects that will finally get done and put local folk on the job, getting a payroll, getting it done. okay, i m calling it porking out, because that s, of course, what it is. it s doing jobs that people at the local level want done, but you know what, at least it s
let me finish tonight with a simple proposition. it s how president obama can get congress to pass a jobs bill. call it, porking out. got it? i bet you do already. all he has to do is combine the projects that all of the members of congress have asked for in their districts. all of the dams they want fixed. sewer and water systems they want funded. now take all those projects, skip the bad apples and put them together in one big fat bill. a wedding of pork projects and send it up to capitol hill. now alert every media outlet, every blogger about what is at stake and each little hamlet, pet projects in some cases, that will finally get done. and put local folk on the job, getting a payroll, getting it done. okay, i m calling it porking out because that s of course what it is. if is doing jobs that people at the local level want done.
for unemployment benefits last week alone. wikileaks founder julian assange, will be freed from a bishop jail today, a judge granting conditional bail in connection to two separate sex crimes investigations originating out of sweden. he has to wear the electronic tag and report to police in england every day. and winter weather a mess out, advisories up for a dozen states up the midwest, will get a load of new snow, icy conditions in atlanta and louisville and cincinnati. likely to slow down the travel by road and air, along the midwest and the southeast. old man winter. still a problem, 32 past. martha? martha: lawmakers are now considering a trillion-dollar spending bill and we have talked about it a lot here this morning that includes $8 billion in earmarks, there is over 6600 earmarks in that big, fat bill that you have been looking at and of course your money funds those projects, william lajeunesse is live en los angeles with our taxpayer calculator which is bound to be
and children and adolescents may have an increased risk of being hospitalized for asthma problems. neil: and a headache for republicans, with 2,000 make omnibus spending bill dropped on their laps read it and vote, when 72 hours and the republican leader is not happy. i hope that our friends in the house of representatives will understand that is the best way to go forward, pass the fat bill, and get it down to a president who supports the understanding. with regard to spending. where we are is reminiscent of last year. many of you were here. it was december. either snow on the ground or snow on the way. and all of a sudden, we had if that case a 2,700-page bill that
is not too late to turn it around, what would you say, from your experience. frankly as much as i substantively disagree the best they can do is pass health care reform. martha: rahm emanuel seems to be saying that, too. they are right about that, the obama administration doubled down to try to getty done haven t seen the big fat bill and little plan b bill, politically, big difference. they ll push for the biggest they can until the last second and pull the plug and get the biggest you can get but i don t think they ll get 50% of the votes and are heading for the titanic and a big iceberg is ahead and a bad, tough one but they have no choice and have to push for health care reform. martha: interesting times, always good to have you here, sir, thanks for coming and see you soon. bill: in the moment, forget the welcome mat, a town s battle to keep a radical group from moving in and you like those talking baby ads on tv, apparently lindsey lohan doesn t. and apparently she hate