if you re going to vote, we ll need some photo i.d. but i ve lived here all my life. stopping all americans from voting is for the protection of all americans. but i m a 40-year-old white guy who didn t go to college and gets all his news from monitors at gas stations. in you go. voter i.d. is such a problem now, even the simpsons are making fun of it. this republican effort to suppress the vote is no laughing matter. just this week, we heard the sponsor of pennsylvania s voter i.d. law say this. as mitt romney said, what, we have 47% of the people that are living off the public dole, living off of their neighbor s hard work, and we have a lot of people out there that are too lazy to get off to get up and get out there and get the i.d. they need. so i mean, if individuals are too lazy, the state can t fix
released his returns here. he paid a little more than 13%, 14%, then what s the harm in releasing them? i can t figure out from a campaign point of view why they don t just release them and bury this issue once and for all. sometime during this campaign, they ve got to be able to focus the nation s attention on the economy, none of this other distraction. why don t they do that? does anybody krystal, do you have a thought? krystal, is this going anywhere? i mean, you re talking about he knew he was going to run for president. a lot of americans, me included, did it at the last minute. but if you re going to run for president, how do they take care of this and get beyond it? is this going to quiet down? it s not going to quiet down, and the release does raise more questions than it answers. it s really unbelievable. it s not like he s just decided he s going to run for president. he s been planning for years to run for president, and the thought didn t occur to him that
matter what they said and how much they tried to argue that, most americans would say, no, the republicans are the party for that sort of thing. similarly on medicare, the whole history on medicare is that democrats introduced it, and the skeptics, including back then, ronald reagan, were the republicans who were against it, the conservatives. then you have paul ryan come along who wants to create a voucher plan. everybody knew that was his position. for a little while, they gained some ground by talking about the cuts that obama made to providers and said this is a big $716 billion cut. then it became clear that ryan himself included that money in his own budget and that it came back to normal after a while. i think the democratic convention president clinton and others made the case pretty strongly. if you really want to defend traditional medicare, the party that traditionally defended it, that gave it to you, is still the party to go to.
they belong to all of us. suddenly, the talk about taxes doesn t seem so bad, and that political sledgehammer was passed to joe biden today. for the first time, he weighed in on the tape. it was classic joe biden. he thinks these folks believe they re entitled, that they ve become dependent. they see themselves as victims. they don t take responsibility for their own lives. how could he be so profoundly wrong about america? how is that possible? not in my neighborhood, not where i grew up, not the people i know. how could he be so profoundly wrong about america? is what so many americans are asking.
you re looking at live picture from the united nations. where all eyes right now are on this year s general assembly. president obama and the first lady, michele bachmann, expected to arrive in new york only minutes from now. at issue for the united states and much of the world this week, a showdown over the middle east. the palestinian authority president vowing to submit a formal application for statehood to the united nation s security council. it could have serious implications for the u.s. relationships with iz real and the arab world. much more on this part of the story coming up. let s get to the president s plan it slash trillions of dollars through the national debt. a plan he says will do the right thing. either we ask the wealthiest americanes it pay their fair share of taxes or asking seniors to pay more thor medicare. we can t afford do both. either we gut education and medical research or we ve got to reform the tax code so that most profitable corporations