and with his family especially at this time of the holidays. there are some strong arguments on both sides of this. this ended allan gross s imprisonment, but at the same time, with a snap of the finger, president obama announced a normalization of relations with cuba, how where do you sit on this? because i have a feeling you might have a view that is interesting to people. so, immediately after it came out, there were a lot of conservatives saying what is he doing? obama, here he is, getting close to another communist country, another communist leader. i m not on that bandwagon, i think this is a fantastic policy move by president obama, it was a long time coming. i love the idea of opening relations, opening markets with cub cuba, it s 90 miles off our shore, we re their number one food supplier, we supply a huge
into question. representative hunter says those men have every right to tell the american people what kind of soldier bergdahl really was. these are pathetic allegations to hide a botched policy move when you are fighting. when it is dirty and tired it is not always for your country it s for the woman or man standing next to you. he betrayed that. that s the most sake cid trust you have in the military. bergdahl walked off his base at least one other time before he was captured the taliban. general motors have details on an investigation as to why it took so long years for the auto maker to recall 2.6 million cars linked to fatal crashes. lori rothman is here with all of the details. good morning, lori. good morning to you. no cover up but a culture clash.
growth. we do. you are there. fifty, when we talk about the long term unemployed increasing to 30%, it s a frightening number. it speaks to the issue peter raised. a few months ago, the congress in its wisdom, i m being sarcastic decided not to expand unemployment insurance for the long-term unemployed. the numbers are ticking up. given the persistent weakness in the job market especially for those stuck in unemployment, it s a bad policy move. the point peter made, one of the problems is when you run an economy at such low gears for so long, you reduce the speed limit. you reduce the po ten shl gdp and labor and the full set of inputs into economic growth. that s what s been happening.
both. if you look back to history in the days and months leading up to a midterm election, congressional action tends to slow down on its own. but you couple that on top of this idea they need to obstruct each and every policy move that the president attempts to make, and you have not just a do nothing congress, but a do even less kind of congress as the new york times described. i m not surprised by any of this. the american people seem to be allowing them off the hook when it comes to cutting snap benefits, when it comes to not putting forth a comprehensive immigration strategy for this country. so it seems to me that the american people, and let s hope this doesn t last, seem to be allowing them to get off the hook without being a party with solutions, but really being a party of nope. you know, another thing that i took note of, richard, republicans are not only pushing anti-obamacare bills, ron johnson filed a lawsuit because the government helps pay for
he s got these folks right where they deserve to be. all of the obstruction they have come up with, all of the attacks that darrell issa has played on american workers, all of the efforts they have done to stall job growth in this country is all coming home to roost. and now they re going to do anything they possibly can to stop obamacare, because this is a huge ideological shift in favor of the progressive movement in this country. think about that. we are going to make sure that millions of americans get health care, and this crowd wants to stop it, because they re heartless and they re all about power. so they re desperate. they don t know what to do or how to do it at this point. so all they want to do now is, well, we re going to take this bill, and we re going to defund obamacare, and we re going to attach it to shutting down the government. they are going to do something very radical as a policy move.