also from our own government which is becoming increasingly distant from the folks. obama care is a radical change in the country. some americans will benefit from it, but others will be hurt. in a situation like that, we, the people, deserve to know everything that s going on. if the government is going to hurt you, you need to know about it. but we don t know everything that s going on. we know very little because accountability is in short supply. now, you remember the president said healthcare costs for most americans would drop. that does not seem to be the case. how come? the administration had three years to roll this out. why the screw up? in a responsible country the leadership would say yeah, we made mistakes. so we ll delay the mandatory portions of obama care until we smooth things out. that would be fair. i think everybody would accept that yet, once again, the obama administration will not even acknowledge there with s. a problem or hold anyone responsible. much less try
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making him speaker. eric cantor will be majority leader. kevin mccarthy will be the number three vote counting whip. two members of the incoming freshman class kristi noem and tim scott tapped as leaders to the leadership team. house and the senate republicans and democrats have leadership teams in place for next year. but this year they still have to pass legislation to keep the government operating and to deal with the expiration of the bush era tax cuts. there is no sign of any progress or any date to do that before thanksgiving. bret? bret: karl, so is this a major setback when it comes to the earmark ban and what does it mean for republicans who have been really trying to get this on the agenda? well, they are not going to give up. senator coburn says they will come back after thanksgiving and do it again and continue to do so over and over. their idea that the democrats are beginning to grow numbers put together more democrats who would support this. they believe as s. a clea
also from our own government which is becoming increasingly distant from the folks. obama care is a radical change in the country. some americans will benefit from it, but others will be hurt. in a situation like that, we, the people, deserve to know everything that s going on. if the government is going to hurt you, you need to know about it. but we don t know everything that s going on. we know very little because accountability is in short supply. now, you remember the president said healthcare costs for most americans would drop. that does not seem to be the case. how come? the administration had three years to roll this out. why the screw up? in a responsible country the leadership would say yeah, we made mistakes. so we ll delay the mandatory portions of obama care until we smooth things out. that would be fair. i think everybody would accept that yet, once again, the obama administration will not even acknowledge there with s. a problem or hold anyone responsible. much less try