about sadness, but about american resilient. i think he will focus a lot on boston strength. this is a tough town, a up to already come back to life. i think you will hear him talk about the people who died and remember them in some detail, but also the heroes. and i also think you might hear him talk about his own experience. he went to school here in boston and he might talk a little bit about his own time as a young man. the word resolve the president was using, another clergy member using the lines of community and unity be used in defiance of cruelty and violence. part of the president s challenge, governor s challenge, the mayor s challenge, and the community s challenge. there is an anger about what happened. three people killed, 180 or so wounded. shocking, because the marathon a big annual event. the right of spring. always a celebration for people who have nothing to do with
secretary. dana milbank, a bit more aserbic. he s here. columnist for the washington post. let s talk about the president s challenge for the left. he s got to take on the right, the center boehner from the center right. crazy right behind him who won t let him deal. the president, is he ham strung at all by the bernie sanders of this world, people on the left? i don t think he is. they re hopping mad. they ve been triangulated. explain. well, the president took a position in between the congressional democrats and the congressional republicans. bernie sanders, a couple of congressman and all the usual suspects, alphabet soup of the left were all out in lafayette park across from the white house having a protest as if george w. bush was still in there. they re going nuts about it. you know what? this is exactly what president obama needs to have happen because he can say to john boehner, you know what? you ve got nuts on your side. well, guess what? you know what this loo
post. let s talk about the president s challenge for the left. he s got to take on the right, the center boehner from the center right. crazy right behind him who won t let him deal. the president, is he ham strung at all by the bernie sanders of this world, people on the left? i don t think he is. they re hopping mad. they ve been triangulated. explain. well, the president took a position in between the congressional democrats and the congressional republicans. bernie sanders, a couple of congressman and all the usual suspects, alphabet soup of the left were all out in lafayette park across from the white house having a protest as if george w. bush was still in there. they re going nuts about it. you know what? this is exactly what president obama needs to have happen because he can say to john boehner, you know what? you ve got nuts on your side. well, guess what? you know what this looks like? old-timers night for the 60s. when they bring back the players from 50 years a
carte approach to this. republicans from mitch mcconnell on down said at the end of last year, they put on the table, in public, that they wanted certain things in return for revenue as part of a balanced deficit reduction deal. yeah. that included so called chained cpi, means testing medicare. the president has agreed to those in this comprehensive budget proposal. but it s not an ala carte. just as you said, you can t say i ll take what i want and we won t talk about a broader deal. that s not acceptable to the president. he will not accept an approach that asks only seniors and the middle class to bear the burden of deficit reduction. that will not happen. the american people made clear last year in the election they reject that approach. okay, jay, great to have you on. thanks for coming on and explaining that. jay carney, white house press secretary. dana milbank, a bit more aserbic. he s here. columnist for the washington post. let s talk about the president s challenge
nancy pelosi s. i m not even sure i would put her as you know she s a leader and operator. a level of pragmatism there. right. the difference may be this, joe. how do you think about social security and medicare or do you say these are important programs that a lot of people care about and the simple math makes them unsustainable in a 30-year period so we have to make changes and they have to be fair and equitable but we have to think about the nature of the changes. the president s challenge to go to cpi you re on board for and how about raising the medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 or something he has toyed with but hasn t yet endorsed? we all know the secret in washington is getting costs under control. the way to do that is changing the incentives in the health care system and not volume based