better, more effectively, he can put those forward. but interestingly enough, in this 200-page report, not one alternative policy about how to do things better and make things work better for recipients of these programs. i want to jump to that back to you. i didn t give you a chance, cynthia. that s my question for you. is there a good way for progressives to make welfare better? of course there are. what are they? of course there is. there are programs that don t work nearly as well as they should. you know, paul ryan talks about head start. head start isn t effective. he talks about he cites several studies that show that head start hasn t worked nearly as well as we had hoped. he goes on to quote the studies that show that well-funded early education programs do work. sure. the house budget committee report says that well-funded early childhood education works. well, hasn t the president proposed well-funded early childhood education?
that want to have that. that s a promise the president has kept and will continue to keep, i will keep as well. that s what we re working towards. quite frankly on the other side of the ledger, republican colleagues want status quo. they are not looking to improve lives in terms of ability to improve health care. they would much rather see the old way, women discriminated against because they were women. people knocked off the rolls because they reached a lifetime cap, got no money from insurance companies. those days are over and we re not going backwards. it s time they realized it. what happened today was another attempt to repeal the affordable care act and it failed. it will not happen. but hasn t the president, hhs, the white house, the whole management and mismanagement of this, given the opposition, the republican critics some pretty good arguments to take this down. the president himself is walking backwards on it and
some type of agreement to have consensus and that s what the point of having the separation of congress and the president and both houses the house and senate, that s the point. paul, what about that? i mean, why hasn t the president, you know, negotiated? i mean, just now meeting, you know, for the last two days or so, shouldn t this have happened long ago? i mean, it s been well reported that the bill that now speaker boehner won t put on the floor was negotiations. that speaker boehner agreed to. the tragedy, the speaker is sino. he sat down with the democratic leader of the senate and told harry reid, you got to agree to really deep republican spending cuts. reed said i don t know if we can sell it but he did. he united his caucus which is more diverse. harry reid has a socialist in bernie sanders and joe who shot a bullet through an environmental law in a tv add. that s a pretty diverse caucus.
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