in this country, a little bit more common ground, a little bit more constructive. certainly from where i sit. however, the tone is a function of the message. what is the message? because if it s going to be well, you pick what you want to be for your particular district, that works up to a certain point. but at some point if you want to have something like we saw in 1994 or 2010, big midterm swings, both of those were motivated by, yes, negative reaction to a president at the time but harnessed and attached to a greater mandate and agenda. you have to be for something, not just against it. and outlining the problems won t be news to anybody. we know what the problems are in this country. we sure do. how do you solve them? have the democrats figured out what the reason to believe is for the voters out there? we need to be a party, and i think we are a party of creating opportunity. for people who work hard, they play by the rules, there should be opportunity there. and i think whe
to a greater mandate and agenda. you have to be for something, not just against it. and outlining the problems won t be news to anybody. we know what the problems are in this country. we sure do. how do you solve them? have the democrats figured out what the reason to believe is for the voters out there? we need to be a party, and i think we are a party of creating opportunity. for people who work hard, they play by the rules, there should be opportunity there. and i think whether you re talking about a bernie sanders candidate or another kind of candidate, everything they re talking about is how do we relieve some of the pressure from the middle class and the poor people in the united states of america. the people who aren t benefiting from the stock market, aren t benefiting from the tax cut, what do we do to help those people? and if that s their mandate then if we get in charge we re going to have a big discussion a lot of them voted for trump and a lot of the demographic
but they do give stability for two years, assuming they can get the votes in the house and senate. there won t be a government shutdown in january or the threat of one next october. so what does that help? businesses around the country who have done what for the last few years, complained that we re afraid to open a new fact other or hire new people because we don t know what s happening in washington. it also helps the tea it gets the threat of a political the political damage over another shutdown out of the way and we can focus on health care. from a policy perspective it s a motdest deal. from a political perspective, both sides see some things to like and worry about. it don t solve the big problems of our country. a lot of people think we re spending too much money. it doesn t solve that problem. unemployment benefits. doesn t solve that problem. entitlement reform, doesn t solve that problem. are those just kicking the can down the road.
jo johns reporting live from washington. no doubt those numbers will be up for debate today when house lawmakers grill health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius about the obama care roll out. but she has steps to make sure those problems won t happen again. from now on the inspector general will review the development of healthercare.gov. centers for medicare and medicaid services will hire a chief risk officer to minimize risk and will have expanded training for contractors. let s bring in chief national correspondent john king. good morning, john. reporter: good morning. the obvious question is why didn t sebelius do all of that before but let s move on from that because republican leaders plan to do just that. it to them lus administrate obama care s problems are deeper than the website. what can we expect from today s hearing? reporter: two very different things. we should move on. that s what secretary sebelius is hoping to do. she s hoping to look forward and sa
some reasonableness it s hard for democrats to say sorry, not reasonable enough. so i think this is going to pass. you know, one extra point here. the country knows who paul ryan s-of course, because he ran for vice president with mitt romney last year but patty murray is less well-known publicly and she deserves an enormous amount of credit. she s a member of the progressives in the senate and the fact that she was able to get to this point really is a huge amount of credit to patty murray and i think her star rises today. progressive like sitting down and negotiating with, i guess, a one time tea party favorites because tea party conservatives are angry at paul ryan. they say he and other republicans caved and are now at any rateors. marco rubio said this budget plan continues washington s irresponsible budget decisions. i know both of you think this will past but this will cause problems for paul ryan, won t it, john? it may cause some political