on top of the issues and quite aware of what was going on. i thought the snap comment to john mccain, the election is over, that sort of thing, is that necessary? it s not necessary. mccain was trying to tell a light-hearted joke, and add levity to a meeting that had already gotten very ppolarized, intense. things they should have done, number one, don t sit rae republicans across from democrats. neil: right. mix them up. you don t need huge opening statements because it s political posturing. if you want to get to agreement, write it down on piece of paper and say this is proposal number one. what do you think? if you don t like it, give me something back. i think the way the white house staged this, we can be cit critical of. the way they did not accept republican challenges or criticism for being legitimate, that could be criticized. i don t think i would call barack obama arrogant. if george bush said, that i
dick durbin. so it was the impress at least to republicans that it might have been unfair but the impress was republicans, this was all just for show, because he is going back with the buddies. i was there. i was behind the president. he was actually walking past us because we were heading to the stake-out area outside the white house you re familiar with. neil: right. we were walking there and he was walking to another meeting. i don t know if you notice bud he walked past us before we turned to go to the stake-out neil: i have the video and maybe i missed it. pam, i don t know if we have it. we did have the video you re right, maybe out of range were republicans scrambling to keep up. i know they were doing their postmortem on that. like anyone, like anyone when tough the presi you have t walking you try to get him as much as you can. he was walking the speaker and majority leader hoyer but
money now, holding off the inevitability. they re camback is we only need 9 billion-dollar this time. last year they lost $62 billion in the final quarter, they re telling us look how much better we re doing. the loss was less than expected and you would have thought that they were making money with the money we ve given them. the environment has not been good but it s been good for the other financial brethren. their stock is down 7 1/2% and indications people don t have confidence in the companies that received the bailouts. that s what is not talked about very much. the whole idea of the bailout was to stabilize them but it s not giving them stability in their market and not giving them stability with stock holders and investors who still don t believe the companies are that predictably solvent. what happens is a lot of people think, republicans and democrats, it s not only too big
trying to go past them. neil: you say the white house holds out the hope of having some bipartisan support on a package might introduce as early as next week, right? my best understanding, remember the president s proposal, the 11-page outline included provisions pushed by republicans. made an effort initially and the forum yesterday, i think he hopes if there is a chance this is where it will come. neil: we ll catch clo watch . thank you. thank you. neil: invading the tea party movement. the man who took on the prime minister over big spending is leading a new attack on tax hikes. daniel hannin is here next. when you pursue an mba at devry university s.
panel slapped his hand. the republicans are saying one of your guys does something remotely bad or looks bad, he s out of there. he might be exonerated but he s out. the democrats seem to be saying, you know, there s nuances here, let s wait it out. what do you think of the approach. it s a double standard. i would like to believe any objective person looking at that would say there s a difference standard for charles rangel than larry craig, a number of republicans thrown outs. the ron white bit from the blue collar tour. he wasn t drunk in public, he was drunk in a bar. they threw him in public. the republicans do, they get thrown out in public. the democrats, they stay in the bar and keep on drinking. that s the difference. well, speaking of bar, your show is getting to be like a fun raucous bar.