harry reid at the behest of president obama has said that he will not move a bill to fund the entire united states government which runs out of funding on friday, december 16th, until they figure out what to do with the payroll tax cut holiday. that is a real issue here on capitol hill that s going to be interesting to see how voters decide which side comes out on top. republicans are now saying, look, democrats have accused us for the last six months of trying to hold the government hostage. they are now doing the same thing. republicans are now emboldened after their vote, chuck. honestly the first real win that the gop leadership has had all year on a substantial budget bill where they didn t have massive defections and even picked up ten democrats. right. they are now thinking because of the keystone pipeline provision, idea to build the pipeline all the way from canada down to the gulf for oil, has split democrats and environmental labor unions, they now can change the narrati
this is about the tenth amendment. you know, these guys are so convenient about, you know, hollering about state s rights until it actually is in practice, and i think the reason we have to slow down on the pipeline is not that anybody is saying the pipeline shouldn t happen but we have to respect the rights of nebraska. now where are you on this, and if nebraska is in now, if they feel like their concerns have been answered, are you supportive of this pipeline? you know, i would certainly take a look at it. if state rights are being protected and if this is going to be something maybe that we try to jump start the approval process, make it go more quickly. i mean, i think there s a variety of ways that we can look at this, but the bottom line is the reason that we feel so strongly about this is that while i m perfectly willing to raise taxes a smudge on multi-millionaires, i ll be gosh darned if i think it s a good idea to raise taxes on people who are working as hard as they know