anybody that has passed a drug test. that s a concern for me. so that s the governor of pennsylvania saying that the unemployment rate in pennsylvania is high because a lot of pennsylvanians are high. what an amazing statement by a public official. next, house republicans are still trying to repeal it. despite almost 40 unsuccessful attempts. but as it stands now, the dust has settled and obama care is, of course, the law of the land. we all know that, right? turn to a new survey from the kaiser family foundation. 12% of the respondents thought congress had repealed obama care. 7% said the supreme court overturned it. another 23% just weren t sure. overall, 42% of those polled, almost half, were not aware obama care is actually on the books. finally, i m going to be talking later about last night s great south carolina congressional debate between mark sanford and elizabeth colbert-busch. apparently sanford had unfinished business after deb e debating, if you will, this cardboard
welfare reform bill he wouldn t have written himself. right before the 96 election. it was a republican bill, first of all. this president is trying to get republicans to meet him in the middle. which he vetoed three times and finally came to the table on it. the reality of it is my point. this president needs to do less excuse making and whining than leading. that s what he needs to do here. congress controls the pursestrings under our constitution. it s controlled by the tea party republicans. boehner is sort of like their chief waiter up there. he sort of serves the tea party. then why do we need democrats in congress at all? he can t do it. why do we need democrats in congress at all? get rid of all the democrats then you can blame the entire party for every ill in the country. no, just the majority. yeah. just the majority. you re so funny. the problem we have now, bob, and this is the problem of people who ticket split. if you re going to vote for the
that stuck out. there are many employers that say, you know, we re looking for people, but we can t find anybody that has passed a drug test. a lot of them. that s a concern for me. so that s the governor of pennsylvania saying that the unemployment rate in pennsylvania is high because a lot of pennsylvanians are high. what an amazing statement by a public official. next, house republicans are still trying to repeal it. despite almost 40 unsuccessful attempts. but as it stands now, the dust has settled and obama care is, of course, the law of the land. we all know that, right? turn now to a new survey from the kaiser family foundation. catch this. 12% of the respondents thought congress had repealed obama care. 7% said the supreme court had overturned it. another 23% just weren t sure. overall, 42% of those polled, almost half, were not aware that obama care is actually on the books. finally, i m going to be talking later about last night s great south carolina congressional de
bill: part of the reason, it was signed into law, mid december, right. don t complain about that, hemmer. it will delay it a little bit. by the way, signing that law, tea party, got congress in line and signed the law and i think, bill, you are seeing positive economic numbers ever since the stock market has been up, i think you will start to see job growth creeping back into the economy, why? not because of stimulus, not because of bailouts, but because they signed it and gave us two more years of extending the bush tax credits going forward. this is good news. bill: back to the irs story, if i file electronically still affects you. bill: does that increase my chances of a refund if i have one coming my way. no increase it? no, what do you mean, you file refunds on time and i m not subjected to the delay. no. no. no. you are subjected to the delay. even if you file electronically you are still subjected to the delay. they say, hold on. don t send it in, don t file it
repercussions. bill: so the debate begins this week. but this is not going to be decided this week. no, it s not going to be decided this week. the negotiated positions have been staked out and they re extreme in both sides. they ll go all the way down to the wire. you re going to be hearing a lot about this for the next 2 1/2 months. bill: stuart varney, see you at 9:20. we ll be seeing a lot of you, too, right? that s a good thing! help us understand it! i ll take it as a compliment, thank you! bill: you should! way to go in nut year! martha: we can t do everything without stuart varney! back to the fight in health care, incoming speaker of the house john boehner is speaking to take the calfel gavel over for nancy pelosi, big moment for him, getting an agenda together, including congresso including congress to dismantle the health care reform. steve centanni is looking at this from washington where the action is getting ready to roll. how soon will republicans