the house believes the president was pushing for a political victory here, he wasn t willing to negotiate with them now on a fuller one-term a one-year extension on the payroll tax cut as well as unemployment compensation. look, they re going to fight another day on that in january, as soon as congress comes back in session to extend that. but we were talking to ed rollins yesterday, he believes this is just a blip, not a lot of people are paying attention. it s the holidays, etc., the republicans will come back in january and fight another day with this president on this issue and others. but make no mistake, this white house has a much different view. they think this shows heading into the re-election year for the president he can go to the american people and say, look, washington may be dysfunctional, but he believes he s not part of the problem, he believes he s been reaching out to republicans. and again, this is a case where he was agreeing with the senate republican leader, m
government to democrats. then in 2010 they turned around and threw a lot of democrats out. now you see approval ratings of congress into the single digits, unprecedented even for congress. so you have a lot of voter unhappiness. there is something else going on though. of the two and a half million people who have left the democratic and republican parties combined, about 1.7 million of those are democrats who left the democratic party, about 800,000 are republicans who left the republican party. so republicans would say, wow, that s a 2 to 1 ratio. bottom line is, though, there are a lot of people who are looking for somebody who is outside the party system. jon: so these are people, essentially, saying a pox on both your houses. well, they are. and they might be, and they re going to be hesitant to just vote for another republican or another democrat. so there is an opportunity for a third party candidate out there. the question is, who is it? the only candidate who s really out th
decide whether or not they want the brotherhood with its values or they want to be . jenna: have a different role. have a different role. and there s no way to tell how this is going to come out. i have to tell you i as a woman who lived in egypt is somewhat sad how this whole situation shaped up because i always hoped the day would come when women and men would be free in egypt and now it looks almost certain we will wind up with a situation which men will be able to tell women what to do and when to do it and how to do it and that is not the revolution a lot of people wanted when they went out into the square in january and february earlier this year. jenna: a lot to think about as we see the next chapters emerge into arab spring and move into 2012. judy, thank you so much. you will be back with us later on? absolutely. jenna: the more judy the better. without a headscarf. jenna: jon? jon: the death of kim jong-il we ve been talking
and they said if you have the bad judgment to, you know, go with this guy, we re not going to take you seriously. i think that s what this crescendo of anti-paul, potentially anti-iowa stuff is all about, is to just discounting, discount this primary before it s ever happened. this guy is not going any place. he s not even going to be vice president. so, therefore, i think people are saying, well, maybe i wouldn t even go to iowa. jon: there s a great quote from jonah goldberg who is frequently a guest on fox news channel, and rewrites: let s take the idea of a president paul as seriously as his supporters say he should although the idea he could beat president obama in the general election strikes me as crazier than joe biden on angel dust. [laughter] kirsten, some of the conservative pundits really don t like this guy. yeah. i think, you know, they re very concerned that if he was to you know, i don t think he s going to become the nominee, but even be taken seriously that it wil
government has been blaming for all the violence that happened inside that country. so far 5,000 people have been killed since march in these pro-democracy rallies the syrian free army has been formed which is army desserters who have now taken up arms and weapons against the regime but it doesn t ever seem like from their videos they have the ability to pull off one of these massive attacks especially in assad s capital strong hold of damascus. so far the syrian free army has denied responsibility for these attacks. you might think it is a little bit of coincidence on the day the arab league advisors and monitors come in to take a look at what is going on inside syria and try to keep assad s feet to the fire ending the violence there are mysteriously two car bombs to blow up what they call terrorist attacks. what better excuse to launch a massive violent cattdown on your own citizens their terrorist attacks in two suicide car bombings. jon: so many machinations in that part of the wor