greta: president obama has had some success in the lame duck congress, some people calling him the comeback kid. rick santorum joins us now, good evening, sir. what do you think, is it comeback kid, is he is going to do it or not? look, you have to give him credit. he pulled off a couple important things. he got a tax bill passed, it certainly isn t everything he wanted. he got a lot of what he wanted. he got some of the tax cuts he wanted, republicans got a little bit of tax cuts they wanted. it was a good win for the president. he wanted it. he got don t ask, don t tell which was another big win for him. itooks like i senator lugan, he is goingo get his new start treaty. those are big wins. i have to tell you, they are going to frustrate a lot of conservatives out there and get
president s tax cut bill doesn t pass. is it really the economic reality? or is some of it politics? carol costello joins us from washington. hey, carol. isn t everything always about politics? it s hard to separate, you know, politics from reality, right? and that s what we re talking about this morning. larry summers, is he a scare monger or mr. right? the president s soon to be ex-director of the white house national economic council says if the bush tax cuts expire, it might increase the risk that the economy would stall out and we would have a double dip as in a double-dip recession. it s a scary responsibilitpossi. it s an economic analysis, it s an economic analysis that tracks the judgments of many other economists. even if he says the tax deal would add $900 billion to the
whether it s related to economic recovery, creating jobs, getting our fiscal house in order, changing the way government does business. this isn t the republican platform. this isn t everything the republicans want to accomplish. these are the first steps, these are priority issues that we believe need to be addressed today. and we can very much take on balanced budget amendment at a different time. let me i want to play for you both something else that now, this was before you all rolled out the pledge, but i want to play you something that congressman pence said recently. we must not remain silent when great moral battles are being waged. we must demand here and now that the leaders of the republican party stand for life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty without apology. congresswoman blackburn, we all know that in attempts to reach out to independents they tend to get very skittish about the social issues. they are far more interested in day-to-day life and the
entitlements, nothing about a balanced budget. if you want a balanced budget, why not a constitutional amendment for a balanced budget? looks like you sidestepped the tough stuff. absolutely not. this is a document, a governing document for today. these are these are plans that these are positive, constructive solution for the issues of the day that we d like to see brought forward in congress. whether it s related to economic recovery, creating jobs, getting our fiscal house in order, changing the way government does business. this isn t the republican platform. this isn t everything the republicans want to accomplish. these are the first steps, these are priority issues that we believe need to be addressed today. and we can very much take on balanced budget amendment at a different time. let me i want to play for you both something else that now this of before you all rolled out the pledge. but i want to play you something that congressman pene kre said.
10:30. i m thinking that they are probably going to post and make that happen. now what happens is during derby time, 6:24, we will see if all the rays get pushed back. we still could see more rain today. it is called the fastest two minutes in sports but i think it is going to be slower today with all the mud flowing here. cabin the derby winner, in the race with supersaver. the two horses i m hearing are the best mudders are devilm devilmaycare and pattyoprado. don t wear the pradas today. wear the rubber boots today. isn t everything more fun when there is mud involved? i think it will be a fun race because it will be dirty. some things are more fun with mud involved. most of which you can t talk about on tv. we will leave it at that right now. we will talk with you a bit. thanks so much. watch coverage of the 136th