they re if place until may, i believe. it s not just a full one-sided embrace of syria. the sanctions are still in effect. there is no reason that you would lift sanctions. it would have been a scandal if he had lifted sanctions. all he s doing is keeping status quo in a situation where syria is acting brazenly in arming hezbollah and reinfiltrating lebanon. chris: chris, you get final 20 seconds. as you discussed earlier this is the new trend in the obama administration and for the talk of bipartisan agreement we heard in the lame duck period, this is a go-it-alone approach we ll see again and again and gone when we have divided government, because it s pretty much the only choice he has if he wants to get the agenda put forward. chris: that s it for panel. stay tuned for the video of an accident just waiting to happen after a big snowfall.
government that taxpayers don t know everything. neither does congress. case and point, the administration recently acknowledged the federal government made $125 billion in improper payments just last year. that s exactly the kind of thing republicans are out to stop. chris? thank you. chris: that brings us to wednesday s poll question. we asked you should republicans hold hundreds of oversight hearings in the 2011 session of congress? 90% of you said yes. hearings should be held. just under 10% voted no. go to our home page at foxnews.com/specialreport to vote in tonight s poll. we want to know what you want to talk about in the lightning round friday. we ask in the agenda what is the most important item to you. in the tight economic times, many families are cutting out unses expenses.
healthcare bill to pay for end-of-life consultations so you have the e.p.a. that couldn t get it in climate change. and they re going to regulate green house gases. so he may have a new republican majority in the house, but the president has substantial powers aside from congress. we ll see him use them more and more saying the republicans back me in a corper. i have to do this, i have no choice. the problem for obama not to be naive and hold politicians to their promises but he promised to never revert to politics as usual. recess appointments are politics as usual. chris: chris? also, you know we should mention aig. this is really cole s problem on the left. the reason that people who are interested in reform haven t cottoned to the choice. he and the law firm were paid $20 million by aig to be, quote/unquote, independent consultant to work with the government and talk about that. didn t alert anyone to the
why isn t the federal government doing the same with your tax dollars? correspondent william la jeunesse looks at the discretionary spending and what the majority wants to do about it. when i am presidently go line-by-line to make sure we re not spending money unwisely. as candidate and president, obama promised to cut wasteful spending. we ll go through the federal budget as i promise in the campaign. page by page, line by line. how is that taxpayers still pay money for research of world of war craft as form of communication. and million of deepening our awareness of the environment posting poetry at zoos. or $600,000 to archive grateful dead memorabilia like flyers and ticket stubs. taxpayers are offended when they find out that the money is going for tattoo removal or
surge of 30,000 troops full strength in september, the u.s. officials had signs of progress by year s end. but there was turmoil in june when mr. obama fired the top commander, mcchrystal and replaced him with a hero of an iraq war. i thank him for his contribution to the security of the nation. and success of our mission in afghanistan. i look forward to working with general petraeus and the entire national security team to succeed in our mission. in the mission in iraq transition with combat operation from role of advising and assisting iraqis. thousands of u.s. troops left the country. it took nine months to form a government but an expert said it was a good year there. it sultly seemed to have ultimately seemed to have succeeded. we drew down 80,000 troops from to 50,000 without increase in overall vie leps levels. violence went down somewhat.