furlough more than 800,000 federal worker, interrupt military pay and slow tax refunds. speaker boehner says the house will vote today on a plan that will keep the government running for another week. we re going week by week now apparently. the temporary measure would also cut $12 billion and fully guy nants the pentagon for the rest of this fiscal year. but president obama and senate democrats have said that proposal are not move forward. much more on the budget coming up in a few minutes. meanwhile gadhafi is appealing directly to president obama to end what he calls an unjust war in his country. in a rambling three page letter that he sent to president obama yesterday, gadhafi writes that western air strikes are a, quote, wrong and mistaken action. gadhafi ended the bizarre miss sif by saying he hopes president obama is reelected. here s a portion of the letter that points out these are gadhafi s own spelling mistakes. quote, you will always remain our son whatever happened.
we still pray that you continue to be president of the usa. we endeavor and hope that you will gain victory in the new election campaign. our dear son, excellency, baraka hussein abu obama, your intervention is the name of the usa is a must so that nato would withdraw finally from the libyan affair. as for the situation on the ground, neither government forces nor the rebels have made any serious gains. nato is acknowledging that it is carrying out fewer air strikes in misrata because pro gadhafi forces are using humans as shields as we talked about a lot yesterday. the rebels calling for may toe to do more to help them in misrata and elsewhere. but in washington yesterday, secretary of state hillary clinton insisted the u.s. has complete confidence in this alliance. the united states from the very beginning said that we will of course, do our part.
reporter: it s charlie sheen. charlie sheen again? your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body. too much. reporter: nah, not too much. he was only joking about the effects of the drug he s on. i am on a drug. it s called charlie sheen. reporter: meanwhile gadhafi is always blaming hallucinogenic pills for the actions of pro esters. i have defeated this earth worm with my words. imagine what i would have done with my fire breathing fists. gadhafi? reporter: sheen. i am like the queen of england. gadhafi? reporter: yes. both men surround themselves with women. gadhafi has his female bodyguards. sheen has the goddesses now live with charlie. your two girlfriends, the goddesses. yes. reporter: but you sure can t say sheen and gadhafi dress alike. gadhafi and his falling off the shoulder robes requiring constant rearrangement while sheen shows up in the new york city t shirt made famous by john lennon let it be.
sheen seen simultaneously live on morning television. gadhafi using words that stumped even the translator. tahrir square cloak cal term used by gadhafi that i did not understand. reporter: sheen s quotes are hard to fathom. live the sheen dream that generates some of his pithier quotes when you click on his head. there was a quiz on this website called whose line is it anyway. gadhafi or sheen? your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body. i think that s gadhafi. reporter: it s charlie sheen. charlie sheen again. your face will melt off and your children will weep over your body. i am on a drug it s called charlie sheen. reporter: meanwhile gadhafi is always blaming hallucinogenic pills for the actions of prot t
united states and al-qaeda combined, but this is the reality world in which colonel gadhafi appears to live right now. there is also violence in several cities right now. the pro ga [broken speech] here on the border we still have a growing refugee crisis. now 85,000 people have crossed here from libya into tunisia. bill: jonathan hunt has seen most of that over the last 24 hours and we apologize for the breakup on that but if you know where jonathan is reporting from you can understand why it s so difficult to get him to report. he is literally in a desert on the border between libya and tunisia. meanwhile gadhafi forces loyal tom have taken control of the key oil port in the heart of the opposition controlled area, progovernment forces pushing rebels out of that facility in the eastern whatever of half of the country. it is difficult for us to