capitol hill, rightly or wrongly, sometimes exists in the world of cable news, and cable news as we re seeing right now was wondering why this was happening. it was really annoying. they thought there was a nice moment here for paul ryan, who is legitimately considered a rising star, the budget chairman, to explain what republicans thought. michele bachmann s speech as you pointed out wasn t very different. it was just this distraction that created a fight where there wasn t a fight, where there didn t need to be a fight. she was kind of dissed by the tea party with that statement. but how many people are actually on her bandwagon with the tea party in the caucus? what do you think? not too many. the tea party caucus was sort of joke s the wrong word, but not taken too seriously by the grass roots from the inception. it was seen as a way for members of congress who did not have amazing records to sort of tea wash themselves and become tea party friendly, even though i think it wa
president, she sent her pal to get his autograph. the hill reports that bachmann asked jean schmitt from ohio to stay after the president s address to get his john hancock on michele bachmann s speech book. if you can t beat them, get their autograph. joining me now is msnbc contributor and slate political reporter dave weigel. good to have you on the ed show tonight. good evening. how angry are the republicans that michele bachmann pulled this stunt? i mean, paul ryan was the guy that gave the official response. and here comes bachmann. she s popular, stealing the thunder. what do you think? i think their anger was very well controlled. lots of us were asking them that the official response was paul ryan, and michele bachmann is allowed to respond to this speech. ryan paul responded to the speech. lots of people responded to this speech. but it was annoying because
asked jean schmitt from ohio to stay after the president s address to get his john hancock on michele bachmann s speech book. if you can t beat them, get their autograph. joining me now is msnbc contributor and slate political reporter dave weigel. good to have you on the ed show tonight. good evening. how angry are the republicans that michele bachmann pulled this stunt? i mean, paul ryan was the guy that gave the official response. and here comes bachmann. she s popular, stealing the thunder. what do you think? i think their anger was very well controlled. lots of us were asking them that the official response was paul ryan, and michele bachmann is allowed to respond to this speech. ryan paul responded to the speech. lots of people responded to this speech. but it was annoying because capitol hill, rightly or wrongly, sometimes exists in the world of cable news, and cable
tasked with that objective. dan lepinksky, we re pushing a bill that i hope passes the congress, which directs the administration to have every four years an updated, adopt now, and then updated every four years, a manufacturing strategy for this country. finally, steny, i ve got to ask you, every time the word investing in america comes up, that phrase, the republicans turn it into a tax increase. what about that? well, i think that s unfortunate. the republicans understand very well about investing in stock, investing in business, investing in small, medium, large businesses in order to get a return. they understand that concept. well, we need to invest in america. that s what the president was saying. we need to invest in our young people. and make sure they get the kind of education they need. we need to invest in our roads and bridges and transportation. well, it takes money to do that. and he froze the budget for five years. so this is going to be interesting. he s going to
sanders give a speech that never mentions chicken. well, mr. ryan never mentioned social security or medicare. probably because he doesn t want you to know about his plans to cut the whole damn thing. he also doesn t want you to know that the cbo says that his plan would add, and i choked when i read this earlier tonight, his plan would add at least $62 trillion to the debt. it would not balance the budget until 2063. oh, yeah. the ryan road map, that s what they call it. it would raise taxes, it would raise taxes on nine out of ten taxpayers. the richest paying the least. it s hard for me to warm up to the republicans when they just get on the air and say things like that. you know, the last month, they have ignored outsourcing. they have ignored job creation, because they haven t told us what they re going to do.