we ll talk about it some other time. the problem is the pressure has built up for three years. we said we believe the problems are real, and we do have to deal with this at some point. now, we ve got to actually get past this deadline and then find out if the president is serious. quickly, how do you think the last three weeks would have played out if you and your party had not done what you did and instead the american people were focused more on what seems a less than stellar launch of the obama care websites? i m not sure the cnn folks have yet to be able to register on it. be able to walk through and do the whole process. i believe elizabeth cohen finally got in at some point. it s been difficult. that haas not been above the fold. every single day trying to get on to it. the problem is the problem with obama care isn t really the website. that s just a symptom of the issue. you can go to a doctor, a hospital, any individual and say what is legal, what is illegal? the most
that would help all out of work, economy might be getting somewhere. is serious miss to susan rice, out going ambassador to the united nations who is leaving the u.n. denounced that body for what she said was the disgrace of its performance on syria, that history would judge the u.n. harshly. she would denounce the u.n. doing nothing in syria and its her own administration that is doing nothing to stop the blood letting. i have a miss democratic on house and ways deplete, hey, there was no political bias when the irs try to slow roll conservative groups because the word progressive appeared on one lookout list. i think democrats are trying to make the story go away but it s not really working. paul: so progressives were not as targeted as the
believe, i think there s a lot of republicans who don t believe, either. that you can t get another penny. not one single penny of revenue. from the most flawed special interest tax cut or loophole or tax expenditure that benefits the most well-off americans. the kind of balance plan we want, is one that i think has great support. and i think that there are republicans in the senate who see that the president is serious. that see that he s putting forward things that are politically difficult. understood. i want to interrupt you only because our time is limited here and i want to ask you specifically about the new jobs numbers that came out today. of 496,000 decline in labor participation. the lowest participation rate since jimmy carter was president, since may of 1979. what does the white house put this on? what does the white house blame for this, the payroll tax cut expiring? or the result of the sequester? what do you say it s because of?
bipartisan basis. what the president is trying to do is not a charm offensive but basically to say to the seriousans i m suous about about this and will sit down to come up with a grand bargain. let s not miss this opportunity. chris: before you deal chris. chris: go ahead, senator. if i could say one thing. think we will all know again when the president is serious will be when begins using the podium to explain to the american people that the average american family is only paying one third of the cost of medicare. when begins to lay that out from h his podium. i have been saying that for years and dick durbin has been saying that for some time. but when the president uses his bully pull pit tpit to explaint families are only paying one third of the cost of medicare we will know that he has begun the process to solve that
bipartisan basis. what the president is trying to do is not a charm offensive but basically to say to the seriousans i m suous about about this and will sit down to come up with a grand bargain. let s not miss this opportunity. chris: before you deal chris. chris: go ahead, senator. if i could say one thing. think we will all know again when the president is serious will be when begins using the podium to explain to the american people that the average american family is only paying one third of the cost of medicare. when begins to lay that out from h his podium. i have been saying that for years and dick durbin has been saying that for some time. but when the president uses his bully pull pit tpit to explaint families are only paying one third of the cost of medicare we will know that he has begun the process to solve that