0 is no threat of force, there s indications assad is dispersing the chemical stockpile, indications he s doing what he did for a decade in the 90s, what s the response to that. what s the next step for united states government, obama administration, congress, united states, that s what i m stuck on now. none of us are weapons experts. it s about political will. if there is that testing of these diplomatic testing, i think that needs to be tested. winston churchill said better to jaw, jaw, jaw than war, war, war. it could deepen the humanitarian catastrophe. what can t be denied is russia has a vital interest in finding a political solution to syria. it does not want to see chemical weapons spread beyond the weapons of syria. beyond chemical weapons it does not want to see a civil war devolve. undercut the possibility of a broader reset, not only u.s. russian relations but u.s. relationship with the middle east so critical moving forward. peter, a question of how the white hou
goldberg. business and economics correspondent for slate matthew iglesias. and senior fellow at the budget and policy committees, jared bernstein. thank you all for joining me on this day of days. eugene, it s pretty amazing to me that the house republicans are pinning this or trying to pin this on the democrats. yeah. i mean, you know, one wonderses what nancy bell osi really thinks of that. i wish she would speak plainly. you know, john boehner really is in a pickle, because a huge chunk of his caucus doesn t want to pass anything. you know, they don t want to pass a farm bill, they re certainly not want to pass immigration reform. they don t want to do anything, basically. and he does. so what s a solution there? i m not sure. you know, he could ram through immigration and ram through a form bill, lose his speakership. ram through implies taking the lead, which john boehner has proven himself constitutionally
0 goldberg. business and economics correspondent for slate matthew iglesias. and senior fellow at the budget and policy committees, jared bernstein. thank you all for joining me on this day of days. eugene, it s pretty amazing to me that the house republicans are pinning this or trying to pin this on the democrats. yeah. i mean, you know, one wonderses what nancy bell osi really thinks of that. i wish she would speak plainly. you know, john boehner really is in a pickle, because a huge chunk of his caucus doesn t want to pass anything. you know, they don t want to pass a farm bill, they re certainly not want to pass immigration reform. they don t want to do anything, basically. and he does. so what s a solution there? i m not sure. you know, he could ram through immigration and ram through a form bill, lose his speakership. ram through implies taking the lead, which john boehner has proven himself constitutionally tacked it on a bill and forfeited votes as a nod to the i had o
are used to using the one pound coin, canada traded its dollar for the luni and it was popular they have a $2 coin there. why do you think there s so much resistance here? are we creatures of habit? people don t like change. you have a similar controversy about the penny where these things that are really worth very little, that genuinely costs the government a lot of money but you have people who make the metal and the coin and on the other hand you have a public that sort of likes things the way they are, that likes to leave well enough alone and you have the dynamic with different aspects of coinage. if you wanted to bet a buck, would you bet it s going to happen or not? i don t think this change will get made this year. there s too much big issues on the hill to waste time with this. matthew, thanks for coming on. thank you. if you read only one thing this morning, we ve all made our share of mistakes, throw away something you meant to keep, leave something behind in a
sign of a tie-break any wild pitch could be a good one. report from the government accountability office concludes if we get rid of the dollar bill, the feds could save $4.4 billion over 30 years. matthew iglesias, good to see you. good to be here. if the findings are correct, no more paper dollar, $4 billion in savings but you think this equation is flawed, right? it s a little bit of a funny situation because they say you ll save money but not because it s cheaper to make the dollar coins than the dollar bills, it s considerably more expensive. the reason the government saves money if we switch to coins people don t like to use the coins and they think they ll pile up in our sock drawers. while that s maybe a possibility at the start but look, here is the pros as a lot of people who think this is a good idea see it. first of all, they last a lot