alan colmes radio show . gentlemen, good morning to both of you. tucker, what gifls here? well i think the president overplayed his hand on the sequester. this is by the way . bill: really? you think that s it? i think it is cumulative effect. keep in mind the president last term promised to right the economy with a serious of stimulus packages. that didn t work to rein in health care costs with obamacare. that didn t work. to fix the budget gap by raising taxes on the rich. that doesn t work. then the government would collapse if the equestionster took effect that happened. 3/4 of people polled say they don t see an effect in their lives. you keep saying stuff that isn t true it affects poll numbers. bill: the line is getting closer and closer who the public blames. for a long time it was house republicans house republicans we don t see it that much in the polling. alan what do you think is it going on here? is it sequester or previous failed policies trying to get economy rolli
we have major yj omera, david nocamura for the washington post joining, as well. we have a lot to talk about as we kick off a new workweek. we re in it to win it sequester style. david, i want to start with you because john boehner gave great sound over the weekend with david gregory talking about his take on the sequester. take a listen. there is no one in this town who has tried harder to come to an agreement with the president and to deal with our long-term spending problem. no one. david, no one in washington, d.c., other than the house speaker. is that a fact? because right now it seems as if the president has put out the against democratic priorities that entitlement cuts are on the table. but speaker boehner has not gone anywhere with revenue. he s not. and i think his point is, hey, we did revenue two months ago with this fiscal cliff deal. maybe not as much as the president wanted, but we gave on that. it s time with the president to go with the spending cuts and do
months. chris. and clear it s title 1 teachers and (inaudible) whether it s sequester related i don t know, these were teachers given pink slips. megyn: that s the point, is it sequester related or isn t it. that s the context in which he offered the original remarks. ap then the washington post came out and gave arne duncan s original claim four pinochios, they weren t layoffs, they were transfer notices and weren t to the sequester. and moments ago the president s team questioned we will he get into it momentarily. boy, this is not going well for arne duncan or the administration. i want to show you and the viewers what just happened today on this very same issue, marriage garre
the rest of us were as aggressive as he was. he did a great job. ann was brilliant and when i first covered the white house she was there for the post. she taught me that you can t back down. if you re going to be a reporter for a major news organization at the white house, you can t back down and intimidate efforts like that. plouffe s tweet to intimidate bob or make fun of bob is not a winning hand for them. the underlying cause for this was bob pointing out the president trying to say he wasn t present at the start of the sequester when his administration brought it and signed it into law. what would happen if someone insulted you and you didn t notice. it would be stunning. the opposite of love is not hate. the opposite of love as willie geist wrote is indifference.
between now and september 30th. we ll lose $1.6 billion. there are not going to be as many fbi agents, atf agents, dea agents, prosecutors able to do their jobs as we would like them to do. this is something that will have an impact on the safety of this country and anybody who says that s not true is either lying or saying something that runs contrary to the facts. cramer, real quick? the sequester is a real bad word. sequester because 99% of american people don t understand it. i hate to use the word on mad money. i hate it. sequester. don t use it. you can t. birthday cake. we can rename it birthday cake. fiscal cliff worked. it had great imagery. did you see the story on the front page of the new york times about birthday cake? parties are focusing on the positive as cuts near. just maybe it s not going to be the end of the world. why did the defense contract