and latino america, an asian america. there is the united states of america! shannon: you heard it, candidate obama promised a new era ofby path sanship. after he arrived in the white house, to say it didn t quite happen would be an understatement. will the statements hurt mr. obama or will voters chalk it up to that s washington? brad blakeman and dick harpootlan, gentlemen, good to see you both today. dick, did he deliver or not on those promises? he attempted to deliver but it takes too to two to tango. he reached out with a hand of friendship and pulled back a nub. that s washington. and i think we saw that during george w. bush s term and i m afraid that s just the way things are in d.c. right now. it s gotten worse because of the tea party and if you read matt bye s piece in the new york times , john boehner did really want to deliver on the big deal, but
the house of representatives passes paul ryan s 2013 budget plan. i applaud my colleagues for the tough decisions they have made to try to do the right thing for the country. the problem is we already know how this story will end. zero democrats voted for this budget which means it s dead on arrival in the senate. democrats say it ends medicare as we know it. as for the president s budget, it s a no-go too. according to republicans, it s a campaign document that raises taxes and doesn t rein in spending. here s the bottom line. america hasn t had a budget in 1,065 days. both sides say this is a tragedy but instead of compromising or embracing the bipartisan revenue raising and the blueprint of the gang of six or the simpson-bowles commission, both sides put their own budgets out knowing full well they won t pass. the blame, they say, goes to the other side of the aisle. we don t think that the president s led on this issue by virtue he s given us four budgets with liter
a witness claims to have seen the actual shooting. let s go outfront. well, good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. out front tonight superfailed take two. the house of representatives passes paul ryan s 2013 budget plan. i applaud my colleagues for the tough decisions they have made to try to do the right thing for the country. the problem is we already know how this story will end. zero democrats voted for this budget which means it s dead on arrival in the senate. democrats say it ends medicare as we know it. as for the president s budget, it s a no-go too. according to republicans, it s a campaign document that raises taxes and doesn t rein in spending. here s the bottom line. america hasn t had a budget in 1,065 days. both sides say this is a tragedy but instead of compromising or embracing the bipartisan revenue raising and the blueprint of the gang of six or the simpson-bowles commission, both sides put their own budgets out knowing full well they won t pass.
passes paul ryan s 2013 budget plan. i applaud my colleagues for the tough decisions they have made to try to do the right thing for the country. the problem is we already now how this story will end. zero democrats voted for this budget which means it s dead on arrival in the senate. democrats say it ends medicare as we know it. as for the president s budget, it s a no-go too. it s a campaign document that raises taxes and doesn t rein in spending. here s the bottom line. america hasn t had a budget in 1,065 days. both sides say this is a tragedy but instead of compromising or embracing the revenue raising and the blueprint of the gang of six or the simpson-bowles commission, both sides put their own budgets out knowing full well they won t pass. the blame, they say, goes to the other side of the aisle. we don t think that the president s led on this issue by virtue he s given us four budgets with literally no proposal to prevent a debt crisis, to get this debt under c
other vehicles, you could hide behind procedural votes. once it was a clean up or down vote, there were some surprises. eight republicans crossing the aisle to join with democrats on an issue that the top brass and the pentagon had asked them to weigh nin on and urge them for the repeal. i just don t know the issues of deficit and debt and these terrible fiscal matters they re going to have to deal with in the early months of the winter of 2011, i don t want know we re going to the see the same type of thing. matt, i think that the president has done surprisingly well in december. and we re now beginning to see a number of columnists, not always happily saying, the president has really bounced back. do you buy into it that? i think he s at the beginning of something. i certainly think it s possible. and i m going to be more of an optimist on the bipartisanship thing. i think it s possible. look, he s been given a pretty difficult mandate here by the voters, right? they want him to