while it was teetering, asking at the time, does anybody really believe that politicians and bureaucrats in washington can successfully steer a multinational corporation to economic viability? thank god we didn t listen to republican senator jim demint of south carolina when he complained the very next day now the government has forced taxpayers to buy these companies without any plausible plan for profitability. does anybody think the same government that plans to double the national debt in five years will turn gm around in the same time? five years, senator demint? five years? try 20 months. not only were all of those jobs saved, but there s, you know, profit. some of those anti-oracles who blew it about gm are now putting forth a republican budget plan. it calls for urgent massive ç budget cuts because they say the nation is so broke we cannot afford to spend any money. house republicans under the leadership of mr. boehner say because we are in such dire financial straits we
when you can start collecting social security to 70. just the fact that lawmakers are wading into the political minefield shows how worried washington is about the national debt. yesterday, i spoke with the top lobbyist for the aarp. he said the timing for this idea could co-not be worse. president obama s top number cruncher and the next hour the architect of the house budget plan, congressman paul ryan. but first, let s go to capitol hill and brianna keilar. brianna, we know, as a country, we need to start making some tough political choices. so, is congress really ready to debate social security? you know, there s definitely an appetite for debating entitlement reform, carol. i think democrats and
right? they blew it. in order to pass without any of the democrats there, they had to make it so the bill had no fiscal impact. in order to make it so the bill had no fiscal impact, they had to change the bill to make p so blatantly unconstitutional that even they had to admit it was unconstitutional, and they yanked it before they even got to vote on it. they re blowing it. we also heard david walker excuse me, governor walker bragging to david koch about how the protests were dwindling, right? the protests were getting smaller. he was saying this in an encouraging way to this man he thought was his billionaire conservative donor. but if you believe the protesters today, the protesters said today was their biggest day of protesting yet in wisconsin with not only thousands of people still in madison for yet another day but also people protesting against governor walker and his union-stripping plan in 18 other cities in wisconsin. there aren t all that many cities in wisconsin. i m us
that was their big threat to get snalt democrats to come back. they were going to pass this voter i.d. bill. right? they blew it. in order to pass without any of the democrats there, they had to make it so the bill had no fiscal impact. in order to make it so the bill had no fiscal impact, they had to change the bill to make p so blatantly unconstitutional that even they had to admit it was unconstitutional, and they yanked it before they even got to vote on it. they re blowing it. we also heard david walker excuse me, governor walker bragging to david koch about how the protests were dwindling, right? the protests were getting smaller. he was saying this in an encouraging way to this man he thought was his billionaire conservative donor. but if you believe the protesters today, the protesters said today was their biggest day of protesting yet in wisconsin with not only thousands of people still in madison for yet another day but also people protesting against governor walker and his
state is already against his big signature idea. nationally, it s even worse. 61% overall oppose what scott walker is doing. that kind of plan. it s not working. in terms of walker calling on all those republican governors whoa says are going to join him, republican governors he thinks are going to follow in his big reaganesque footsteps or whatever, those governors are not following his lead. they in fact are bailing. indiana governor mitch daniels, who walker name checked to the fake billionaire on the phone, mitch daniels called republicans in his state to yank their union-stripping legislation that they had put forward. quoting from today s washington post, walker is now calling for other governors to join him in fighting unions, by there aren t many takers so far. in addition to daniels, new jersey governor chris christie and iowa governor terry branstad have now become the latest governors to balk at going after the unions. they join mitch daniels, michigan governor rick snide