reid is accusing them of blocking efforts to create jobs. he says they have found time to pass things like a food safety bill all while taxpayers are staring down the barrel of a major tax increase. allan cooms, now the republicans have said that s it. i m shocked the party of no is saying no. wow. that s new information, right? megyn: they say the democrats don t get the message and that s focused on the fact that they re not reducing spending and not the dream act. i don t think they get the message which is they want to get things done. we should have a dream act, a pathway to citizenship, we should be able to do the treaty with russia, which is what everybody wants, including former members of the bush administration, saying this is what we should be doing and all they want to talk about is taxes and money and we can do a lot more than that. that s what the american people want. megyn: apparently we can t. we can t because megyn: here we are, december 1st, they ve known t
russia. firefighters into union. we need to give certainty to americans as to what the tax rates will be in general. and we should not raise taxes on nip. not during this time of an economic recession. neil: on that point, senator, we can argue this, because you are right, there could be value validity but time is of the essence, is it your sense we will get a bush tax cut deal one way or the other. guest: they are working on that. we want that vote and make sure taxes are not raised on anyone in this cup during these economic times. it has been a month since the election and another month physical all the new members are sworn in. for a month we have only done one bill and that was a food safety bill! so you say, what are they thinking? why are we not focusing on the jobs, the economy, the debt and
overhaul, 1938. it s been 72 years. the new york times reports that the house may forgo the haggling committee and pass the senate version of this food safety bill to make sure it gets to the president s desk and gets signed. hey, they re actually passing something. dry aged steaks for everyone. i was totally wrong. i deserve this. [ buzzer ] false. oh, what a feeling. next one. true or false, the bailout of the financial system that for all its problems did stave off a second great depression. that bailout cost taxpayers $700 billion. the t.a.r.p. bailout cost taxpayers $700 billion. is that true or is that false? [ buzzer ] false, not that you would know it from the last two years on the tv machine. $700 million plus in bailout cash. that $700 billion rescue plan. the $700 billion bailout. not the wall street,
welcome to the journal editorial report, i m paul gigot. democrats may have lost the house and six senate seats on november 2nd and you might not know it from their lame duck agenda. majority leader harry reid told republicans in a mere three weeks he wants to pass a food safety bill, the immigration three, don t ask, don t tell for gays in the military. and the rescue relief act, the spending bill for fiscal 2000, extension of some bush era tax cuts and state tax reform, not to mention the new start nuclear treaty with russia. what will he actually get done? joining the panel this week, wall street columnist and deputy editor dan henninger and kim strassel. how much of the list is serious or is harry reid trying to placate his left
flank? well, this is how they got in the situation, as harry reid put up these things to gin up enthusiasm before the election and the plan was going to be to make them too toxic to gain any republican support and then blame republicans. it didn t work well, kim, why do it now after the fact, that failed. why do it now? well, now, he s on the hook to some of these groups and actually make some progress. and the reality is, most of this is not going to pass any one of those items in and of themselves to take three weeks to debate and get through. they re going to end up having to focus on the stuff that is absolutely necessary and likely to pass this food safety bill which is teed up to get a vote and then, you know, look, because the democrats ignored some big things like passing appropriations bill and they re going to have to deal with funding the government and probably the tax issue, i wouldn t expect more.