katrina. perry said on fox news, i think about the criticism that george w. bush received when he didn t go to new orleans during katrina. this is no different. also on fox, congressman cuellar said i hope this doesn t become the katrina moment for president obama. well, former nsa contractor edward snowden is asking russian authorities to extend his stay in the country. his year-long permit to stay in russia has a political refugee is set to expire july 31st. political commentator ann coulter is criticizing chris mcdaniel for not backing down in his race against senator thad cochran. in an op ed piece in the clarion ledger, coulter wrote, even in cases of actual voter fraud, history shows that the contesting politicians get branded as sore losers and destroy their political careers. and that s your morning dish of scrambled politics. all right, in washington, i am joined by syndicated columnist bob franken. hope you re feeling better today. good morning, bob.
and he did get his photo op. that is to say that governor perry finally agreed to shake hands with him. right. but instead, the president says he s really focused on real issues and tackling this problem and how to get it done. is any progress being made in that area? well, it looks like some of the things that could appear to have been noncontroversial, which is to say to come up with money to try and speed up the process of adjudicating all these children who are coming across the border from central america would be something that would pass the congress quite easily. but of course, there is nothing that passes the congress quite easily, and already, some of the republicans are putting up a resistance to his getting the extra money. yeah, easy and congress doesn t seem to go together these days. nothing passes congress. thank you, bob. we appreciate you joining us. thank you. all right, first buzz is just ahead, and we are talking about stiff drought fines and stri
the principle that keeping tax rates low and reforming the tax system is the way to grow the economy. i disagree slightly with rand paul. i am in favor of closing loopholes. i hate them. i call them termites in the tax system but we should use that money to credit a first-class world class tax system that stops exporting jobs. when the president talks about outsourcing and we are all against outsourcing, i hate to see an american job outsourced but how do we prevent that 23 we move to be the highest tax race countries in the world? we are incentivizing businesses to move out of the country. neil: well put, good to see you. guest: have a great time in los angeles. i hope my friends at fox are sit down when they hear this, it could be a shock, president obama didn t invent trillion dollar deficits he inherited them. neil: i hope this doesn t come as a shock as my friend the