to carry out their mission and that he s going to be there when the debate is occurring as to whether or not we ought to go to war and remind people that often times it occurs we get all enthusiastic, everybody is behind a war at the beginning, and all of a sudden we find out people are killing and dying and we turn against it. he has been in an unpopular war, one that was popular in the beginning, became unpopular at the end, and our men and women in the military need that kind of voice when it comes time to putting up the balloon. well said. great to have you on senator bob kerrey. thanks for coming on the show. steve clemens, thank you. split decision in the wake of president obama s re-election. the republican party is divided in . that s being isolated and ignored by the right wingers. that s a problem for the gop. that southern dominance may sentence the entire party to irrelevance. conservative identify logs are itching for another fight with president obama this time sayi
because the conservative identify logs pulled mitt romney so far to the right in the primaries he could never find his way back to the middle in november. on the other side is the right wing, jim demint, rick santorum, the talk radio conservative media industrial complex. they make the same argument identify logs always make when they lose. the problem to them was our guy wasn t ideological enough. the conflict is playing out in technicolor with demint bowling the united states senate to become the ceo of the conservative movement. and firing a warning shot at bay boehner in the process. joining me are michael steele and joy reid, managing editor of thegrio.com. she s also one of us. thank you gentleman and lady. i want you to look at something. this is what happens when you g near what i call the misery index, the risch limbaugh show. yesterday jim demint, still the united states senator from south carolina, and the outgoing heritage president ed fuelner went on rush and yuck yucked
illusive dollar figure and now how do you process this? the republicans thought we should cut $100 billion off of the president s budget for 2011. democrats thought we should start at $50 billion. we re now at $78 billion in cuts. you heard senator reid describe the mix of cuts. that number has been agreed to, $78 billion. that s real money, that would have been important çeffect, b right now the sticking point is so-called title ten funding. it s actually not planned parenthood, but it s the provision that provides for 3 million american women to get health services if you have diabetes, you need checkups, and the like, and for this important measure to be stalled because identify logs in the hou ideologues in the house want to make a point, doesn t make sense. the real challenge facing us is our long-term debt, the two wars we re fighting, a need for real immigration reform and a xrae
it s going to be a big hit. we ll be covering this all year. the republican establishment is at war with its crazy wing. they say they lost the election because identify logs pulled mitt romney foo far to the right. that sounds reasonable. brong say the right wing. we lost because mitt romney wasn t right wing enough. the winner of this little tango will determine whether gop moves to the center where it might find some votes or becomes an even more fringy party. also, the fiscal cliff. it s down to two people. everybody seems to agree, two people get in the room, the president and the leader of the opposition, john boehner, the speaker. they may be closer, some argue, to an agreement than we think. the question is can they sell the deal to their bases, to their fringies, left and right i must say. plus, republicans say they would change after the lek and they are. guess what? they re changing the rules. some of them are proposing to republicans in pennsylvania and three other stat