the interview with laura. the reality for the gop right now is, they walked out of the 2010 election with a lot of momentum, a very strong economic message, which galvanized the country, and then instead of taking that momentum and building and growing into the argument they needed to make, whether on the debt limit or future spending officr whatever happened to, they got mired in all kinds of stuff. the american people are saying, look, it s gn seven months. what are you going to do? so now you re going to have a situation where the party s got to reconcile with itself and how exactly they re going to go and handle this thing in the next 3 1/2 weeks. otherwise, mcconnell s got it dead right. i don t think they have a week or so. when asked the public, the same poll, should agreement be only spending cuts or taxes on the wealthy and big corporations? 67% to 25%. inagreement with you on this.
situation where the party s got to reconcile with itself and how exactly they re going to go and handle this thing in the next 3 1/2 weeks. otherwise, mcconnell s got it dead right. i don t think they have a week or so. when asked the public, the same poll, should agreement be only spending cuts or taxes on the wealthy and big corporations? 67% to 25%. i m in agreement with you on this. it s an issue of priorities and fairness, i would argue. republicans who did win the election, not much of an economic message but won the election by overwhelming margins now got themselves on the wrong side of a number of related economic issues. one is blowing up the economy over raising the debt ceiling. people are getting nervous about that with their own party, and that poll just shows, talking about spending cuts, or ending the medicare guarantee, which was the issue two months ago, the people, american pub politic
minority leader mitch mcconnell s plan to let the president raise the debt ceiling on his own. without the cuts. she says that amounts to surrender, and here she is, last night on hand. this plan of mcconnell s, i think makes no sense, because it does cede power to our president and we cannot afford to back off and hand him with the white flag waving in front of him, saying, here, mr. president, we trust you, you take over. i agree. i m still not one to buy into this notion that we must incur more debt and increase the debt ceiling by august 2nd. otherwise, you know, there will be catastrophe. you pay for the essentials first and the nonessentials have to get cut. martha: interesting. all right, the former alaska governor tells sean, she plans to make her long await announcement whether or not she ll run for president, late this summer. that is the latest timeframe we are hearing from sarah palin. bill: in the meantime, back to the casey anthony matter.
i m thankful he s come to that conclusion and now thinking a different way to do that. this does sound like a rue gold burg contraption, but we will look at it and will consider it as long as at the end of the day it leads to a balance package that doesn t ask the middle class and seniors to fund corporate tax loopholes. thanks for joining me this morning. up next, as the clock ticks down to getting a deal on the debt. is wall street putting too much trust into congress? plus, mcconnell s, how long before the last choice option is the only option? what do presidential candidates and missing ads on milk have in common? first a look ahead at the president s schedule. the big one, another meeting, another day, 4:00 in the white house, hot rhetoric? we ll see. you re watching the daily
earlier, has leverage at this point because republicans depicted themselves as hostage-takers ready to blow things up and the public doesn t like this. they stood their ground. pat s right about that. the tea party people would be happy to see $100 billion cut out of the next budget which is in the bill that s up this week, even if that leads tos 700,000 lost jobs. happy top do safety inspections, environmental protection. this is what they want to do and stand by let s get back to reality. back to reality no. this is the reality, pat. david, what about david, hold on. let pat make his case. let me ask you this, chris. the republicans, say the mcconnell plan has a trillion or a trillion and a half in budget cuts in it. i don t think it does. in the house it passes. they send it to the president. he s going to veto it, shut down the government and puts if default? come on. the whole idea, mcconnell s,