whatever reason democrats are quicker to complain than republicans in a public setting. part of it is fear. when people fear you, and they feared cheney and feared bush and thought they needed him for victory. what must worry the white house right now, democrats don t fear president obama. and it gives them much less leverage in dealing with congress on the jobs bill. why you have senate democrats say we re not going this jobs bill in one big piece despite the the fact the president said it had to be done that way. we saw this a couple of weeks ago with environmentalists, saw it in new york with jewish voters. once you lose that base and you have no connection to the republican party and independents are already probably wobbly and leaning against you, that s not a great place to be politically. an unugly picture this week.
plus, you can earn 10,000 bonus points. and the annual fee the first year is on us. call 800.axp.gold to apply. the news nation is following develops news within the hour. president obama will honor dakota myer. the president will present myer with the congressional medal of honor, the highest military award. he is the first living marine to receive the honor for iraq or afghanistan. it was in september of 2009 he charged through heavy gunfire, saving 13 marines pinned down by insurgent ambush. he went into heavy gunfire five times to save the wound and those trapped. he was wounded during the battle, but kept fighting. mike viquiera is fighting and
managing editor of time magazine. rick perry the cover story. folks should take a read. two years after rushing into enemy fire in afghanistan and saving the lives of 13 u.s. service members and 23 afghan soldiers, marine corporal dakota meyer will receive the highest combat honor today in less than an hour. the 23-year-old, 23 years old, will become the third living recipient and first living marine to receive the medal of honor. meyer met privately with president obama yesterday and he wanted to have a beer with the president. that s what they did. shared a beer together on the patio outside the oval office. here s his story. reporter: on his grandfather s farm in southern kentucky, dakota meyer is a long way from afghanistan but never far from the war. a lot of people ask, what did you think you were going to die? kn no, i knew i was. reporter: he was a corporal
tax code is so darn complicated. at most people thought the super committee might be able to sort of lay down a path to get to the broader reform. but certainly not before the campaign. what s fascinating here and i want to refer to one poll, who do you blame most? 45% say republicans in congress and 20% say president obama. four months ago when the debt ceiling debate was just beginning, the president made the decision to go big even though politically people knew that was probably not going to happen, this $4 trillion deal. now it looks like boehner is taking the same political stance going, forget the small stuff, i m going to go big. we re not doing short term. i m going to go big as a way to ignore short-term issue? well, and one other number that we have in there, that is the debt ceiling fight from august, it intensified frustration out there morniamon
signalling both to the house republicans on their senate republicans and everybody else, tax cuts are not going to get it done. i feel like we are back to the debt ceiling fight again. we are not going to raise taxes and put entitlements on the table and we wrestle down to the end deadline of when to get something done. it seems like that may be where we are headed. we know the president will roll out on monday his ideas for the super committee. they are leaking a word he will not have anything about social security on there, but there is going to be some reform recommendations that means testing and raising the age. we think we know there will be tax increases on the wealthiest americans. you basically have the two, boehner and obama staking out positions that are not reconcilable in principal at the moment. what does the super committee