trying to hammer out a deal. eight republicans are pushing a deal to extend unemployment for three months and roll back cuts to military retirees while guaranteeing ways to pay for both. joining me now, pennsylvania democratic senator bob casey. good morning. good morning, chris, good to be with you. you said last month if it takes finding spending offsets, congress should do it. you just heard what the gop proposal includes. do you support it? well, we re looking, i think, at a lot of different options to get to the conclusion, which frankly shouldn t have been that difficult even last week. to be able, as we were last week, which is to extend unemployment insurance for just three months, we should have been there by the end of last week, but there was republican opposition. i think there s been some good discussions the last couple of days, but i can t say with any certainty that we re at a point where we can get an agreement. what are the offsets you would accept? what s t
abuse it and frankly shouldn t be done on either side, but democrats realize they re running as conservatives. they re not even identifying themselves as democrats, and they realize they can prop up tea party candidates to split those fine line voters. what do voters need to know and understand when they go to the polls? how do they differentiate? how do they distinguish ballot by ballot. city by city, what s going on. who is going to represent their interest. two things, peter, read the ballot and be involved. don t just take them at their word or commercial and when you go in there, because ballots are also you have the nice line here, democrats and independents, look at it, i mean, really, voters are aware with the tea party movement, the american people are aware, but you have to be informed. if you re not. are going to get caught in one of these. how can you combat against this? for example, what s happening in pennsylvania, the democrat brian lens is helping a third party
are not fighters, not because i m not a fighter. you know, cain also told the crowd today that america got a very powerful lesson that presidential politic politics a dirty game which frankly shouldn t come as any surprise to any one. i was thinking the same thing when i listened to mr. cain make the announcement. suspension is the key word here. the supporters you talked about, they had about 300 people in the crowd there. what are they saying, cain supporters we are talking about? they were very disappointed because the atmosphere surrounding his speech today was some what festive. oat was here to open up his new national quidquarters in atlanta. suspects sporters were being urged to give money and sign up to volunteer and suddenly he