down. sit down. you happy wednesday, everyone. so if you were going about yourt business yesterday and suddenly felt the earth shudder on its axis tdder on s not b, it s noh jerry nadler tipped overat and now it s that congress actually got something right in a bipartisan vote the house of reps censured receded to leave six. okay. censuring it s less effective than puttingutting c on a cold , but we ll take it for evenin a 22 democrats to leave statements blaming israel in america fomer the ten seven attacks while calling the hamas massacre resistance. we re simply. we r si much truer is so nutty she s asked not to sit near people with allergies and now censuring doesn t really amount to much. it s congressional equivalent of fining hamas for trespassing . but it seems the dems are finally waking up to the out of control monsters created. it s probably how steve doocy felt when peter turned. here s how two leaves leave. fellow squad monsters tried to defend. what is true h
won two of these awards. she desperately wants to work for sports center. i really do. it s adorable. i think espn is missing out. i think so too. i really do. they need a little reena perspective. i m with you. i agree. you just want to see me implode. now to a different journey, this involving a cat named kevin. an orange tabby here used to live in south carolina but the owner hasn t seen him in a year. kevin is a lucky, well-traveled guy apparently. he was found in the back of a u-haul truck at california s border with arizona. a microchip led to his owner. see those microchips are important. kevin hasn t said where he s been. glad it worked out. yeah. coming up in the skinny, the biebs and madonna share their darkest secrets. and the danger that could be lurking in your basement. the extra risk every family faces when they use a boiler to heat their homes. did you see that? one disaster in washington
bipartisan way, right? including by paul ryan. so in 2001, there s a great debate, there s a great hearing between paul ryan and an economist named kevin who s currently affiliated with the romney campaign. they re out there and sort of talking about the bush tax cuts. the bush tax cuts, remember, were originally there to pay down a big surplus. we had all this money, needed to do something with it, we ll give it to you in a tax cut. the economy began to break down, we were going into a recession. suddenly we didn t have a clear it went from we need to pay down the surplus to hey, this would be a great way to stimulate the economy, too. we need it in order to be recession proof. kevin and paul ryan have this exchange in this debate about, you know, the problem was before they just didn t do their stimulus fast enough. you needed to do it deeper. there are some differences between doing a permanent tax cut and doing a temporary tax cut which are relevant and worth talking about, aga
stimulus is we needed more. by the way, the romney campaign this morning including by kevin had this op-ped in which they said, if you believe these two economists who are fairly important in these discussions, carmen reinhart, you should know, the obama administration should know in a long recession, in a long recovery like the one we re in, stimulus is ineffective. i went back and look. how much did ken think we should have in stimulus? $1 trillion over 2 years. what did carmen reinhart say about stimulus? she would tack to it on her forehead it had done an enormous amount to help. even the economists, they rely and cite, don t say, don t believe the things they claim to believe right now. ezra klein, columnist for the washington post and msnbc policy analyst. knowing that i could talk about the raw politics of this on my own and turn to you to talk to the policy about talk about the policy on this made me very happy today. i m really glad that you re able. made me very happy
controversial thing in the world, but at least used to have the logic of it accepted in a bipartisan way, right? including by paul ryan. so in 2001, there s a great debate, there s a great hearing between paul ryan and an economist named kevin who s currently affiliated with the romney campaign. they re out there and sort of talking about the bush tax cuts. the bush tax cuts, remember, were originally there to pay down a big surplus. we had all this money, needed to do something with it, we ll give it to you in a tax cut. the economy began to break down, we were going into a recession. suddenly we didn t have a clear it went from we need to pay down the surplus to hey, this would be a great way to stimulate the economy, too. we need it in order to be recession proof. kevin and paul ryan have this exchange in this debate about, you know, the problem was before they just didn t do their stimulus fast enough. you needed to do it deeper. there are some differences between doing a perma