understand the brilliant progressive agenda. writing in newsweek jacob weisberg says quote:ing bill: writing in time joe klein says: bill: and, of course, there is bill maher. what the democrats never understand is that americans really don t care what position you take, just stick with one. just be strong. they are not bright enough to really understand the issues. bill: joining us now to react, professor marc lamont hill, a bright man who teaches at columbia university. all right. now, i have a couple of tacts here. first of all are we a nation of dodos. i would never say something so elitist. i do think we are a nation not always vested in the conversation. we can be easily swayed not so much by the fundamental ideals.
health care proposal and the jobs bill. joining from us washington fox news analyst charles krauthammer. all right. let s start with the obama deal. new proposal, not really new but, you know, put a bunch of stuff together. what don t we know about this? well, the real story here, the hidden story is the cost of it. it s under tons of. i will wield the that set and it s jobs bill which supposedly cost 850 billion. that s the limit because obama had said he want he wouldn t approve anything over 900 billion. the problem is, it s a trick. the way the democrats got under the limit is by making 98% of the expenditures, the benefits you and i would get out of the bill occur in the second half of the decade, which means that the real cost over a decade is about twice that much. bill: okay. and there is a big trick in there which is the doctor fix
professional misconduct but then it was kind of strange in the same report they said they didn t violate any ethics rules. bill, i taught professional ethics before. i looked through the rules and i don t see that they violated any rules. bill: the ruling from the justice department basically said when they told president bush that you could waterboarding khalid sheikh mohammed and some of these other thugs, they were on, what? that they used poor judgment in giving that advice but it wasn t illegal. bill: it was not illegal? it was not illegal. bill: all right. so according to the u.s. constitution or the u.s. law standards, waterboarding is okay? that s not what it says. bill: no, no. but it has to be that. if waterboarding is illegal, come on, use your law school background and i will get to guilfoyle. if waterboarding something illegal as some people have said and other coerced interrogation methods the justice department could not say that you and bybee didn t do any
search and seizure that s where they have a great case. bill: still in play right now? the school admitted that they did not give sufficient warning to notify families and students that they had this device. bill: this capability? correct. bill: no one knew they had the capability. guess what? the aclu is bringing a lawsuit and it s a violation of privacy. we re with the aclu on this one. bill: go to iowa. we think the iowa kids, some of them, are in danger. this is a stupid law that wiehl and i kicked around that says if you are in a theater, and a shack, a lean to, anything can be a theater, little kids can take off clothes in front of adults with no penalty. they are going to change that law, wiehl? they are trying. anderson from iowa for two years bill: what about now? there is a bill in front of the iowa legislature right now gotten through the senate committee. the vote has to take place by march 5th or at least get it out of committee by march 5th and
i want to give you a specific example of the massive new spending and even less cost control in this bill, the president s proposal that is the senate bill there was much to do about senator bill nelson s corn husker kickback, special entitlement for the state of nebraska, the funding by 49 other states so subsidize the expansion. 4 other states said we are not getting this deal. a lot of hell broke loose. over the last 4 hours we have seen they said that proposal has been eliminated from the president s proposal. well, that might be true, but, guess what? that entitlement is now extended to all 49 states. so it s not just nebraska that s getting it. so this is a perfect example of the bigger spending. bill: i the get to your vesting about the bill in a moment. but, look, it doesn t add up. math doesn t add up. tax americans enough to pay for this enormous bill. expansion in services as monica