impasse right now. okay. can you tell me, though, what is really going on here? did the president move the goal post, or did the gop and boehner were they the ones that reneged at the 11th hour? we re right now in the midst of a big spin war, and in mike s piece right now, republicans have made the charge that they said that they had agreed to $800 billion in additional revenue. the white house wanted $400 billion more. the white house contends, look, republicans have now walked away three times. first by house majority leader eric cantor, and then john boehner a couple of weeks ago and john boehner a second time last night. that s where things are right now. the president made also an argument saying, look, we re actually playing at the republican party s 30 yard line. basically we ve given up 70%. the deal is pretty much in the republicans favor almost 70% to 30%. right now this is a spin war.
came, you know, with all good intentions, but that he is almost being held hostage to the extreme right in his party that say no way, you do this basically and you re out as speaker of the house. that s certainly what the president was hinting at yesterday saying that, you know, there was questions about whether bean boehner could cont his own caucus. that s a factor for john boehner. you saw it in the negotiations coming up to this. tensions even between him and eric cantor, his deputy, but, you know, the bigger question for all of these people is that every poll, you know, no matter what you look at, you know, whether it s democrats or republicans, everybody is disgusted with washington, with what s going on, how things are being run, and so there s huge political danger for both sides. i think both john boehner and the president see that. okay. as always from yahoo news, holly billy, good to see you. a big fight in washington
somebody hopefully in the white house that is specifically 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 fi
show, last october the state of arizona cut funding for some kinds of organ transplants from its medicaid budget. think about that. it s pretty severe, isn t it? that left 98 people unable to afford transplants that could save their lives. now, two of them have died so far. do we care about that? republicans justified the cuts by saying that these transplants, well, they almost never worked. well, now some actual experts have studied that the claim is absolute bull. last year republican state senate president russell pierce said about those 98 people, and i m quoting, folks, most of those will die anyway. arizona transplant experts said even then that they had plenty of patients who survived. and now the actual data has been reviewed by three big groups that deal with organ transplants, and they say the studies behind the republican claims are, quote, flawed and outdated.
one to put out his hand to shake your hand. he ll always be the one to put out the olive branch, to a fault, in my opinion, in many respects. but this president gave a great speech last night because of that, because of the response. and the president went first. i learned a lot. i will fight for obama to get reelected in 2012. arizona republicans said they cut funding for organ transplants because the transplants never work. well, the facts are in. and the truth is out. i ll tell you about it next. curtis: welcome back to geico radio, it s savings, on the radio. gecko: caller steve, go right ahead. steve: yeah, um, i just got a free rate quote on geico.com,