harry reid had this to say. if we have work the weekend before christmas we will do that. if we work monday before christmas, we will do that. if we have to work through christmas, we are going to do that. i know the game they re playing. they have done it before. the only impediment to holding votes without delay and at reasonable hours is blatant part sh isan republican obstructionism. spending an entire week, wasting and waiting for a vote. this is a foregone conclusion whu what is going to happen. joining me congressional scholars and authors, extraordinaire, thomas mann senior fellow at brookings university, and norman orrinstein at the american enterprise institute and co-authors of it s even worse than it looks now available in paperback. tom, go to you first on this. it is even worse than it looks. it looks pretty bad. this seems to be the longest, most public display of
kind of guy was he? he played an action figure whu who was he? he was a great guy on the set for example. everybody who made movies with him said he smiled a lot. his daughter moved to california to be with him. what he was doing 30 minutes before he died. he was raising money charitable funds for the sir vsurvivors of the typhoons in the philippines. he really cared. why? what was his interest in helping these international issues and did he do things in los angeles as well? yes, he did. reach out worldwide was based here and when the fast and the
be decided but in the end the question is will any of goit into obama care? and the people have rejected obama care. the smart money is unless speaker boehner blinks then we re going to have a shut down. the hope among moderates i ve spoken to is that speaker baner and some moderate as agree to agree to something just to keep the government open. is that a possibility? what will you do? what will do you if speaker boehner seeks a compromise that keeps the government open? if it means funding obama care i m likely a no vote on that. i can t speak for anyone else but the question again become who s will blink. if i knew how this was going to end let s goat that. fwhu is about getting to a resolution of the matter. if there is a government shut down it won t be an act on hairy ried or the president.
in life. because then your first fight something is terribly wrong. what s wrong? i avoid confrontation to this day i think because of it. not kidding. we had a debate earlier on the show and i totally agree with resolving it in front of the kids thing and here we had a panel this morning talking about the very issue, listen. whu aether you are discussin something and it s a little bit heated, that s okay, because children need to know that people are going to argue, parents are going to argue, however, i think there is a time and a place and i think that it should be a healthy argument. all kids are different and some kids can handle things that other kids can t and you sort of have to take the temperature of your children when you have an argument, if you have a child looking down or tap dancing or even crying, okay, that s a child that you sort of need to temper your arguments in front of. the study shows increased emotional skills will come to your kids and make the chi
still gonna whoop on him. here is a look at your morning dish of scrambled politics. president obama will be on hand later this month for the dedication of the george w. bush presidential library at southern memphis university in dallas. the last time the five men were together was january, 2009. also on hand are representatives from chicago and hawaii. why? they are taking notes to whu president obama. the cast and crew of 42 were at the white house. tuesday jackie s 90-year-old widow spoke of her late husband. i don t think he would have ever dreamed of having this kind of film made of him. or the tension given to him as a hero because that wasn t what he was looking for in life.