certainty about whether or not they are getting paid. i have staff in the white house. there s staff all across the country in rural areas working for ago culture, veterans affairs who are on the jobs despite the fact that they are t not getting paid or have been sent home and want to be on their b jobs. this morning i get the wall street journal out. it says we don t care how long this lasts because we re winning. this isn t some damn game. the american people don t want their government shut down and neither do i. the house will be in session tomorrow. tropical storm karen threatening the entire gulf coast. curfews for parts of plaqueminess parish in louisiana. karen is set to make land fall early saturday bringing three to ten inches of rainfall through sunday night. louisiana, alabama, mississippi
congresses since world war ii. if that s what it takes for anything to pass, then we are so deadlocked where we are right now. the idea of majority rule which is so much where this down uh tri was born. it s not about the general. it s about the majority rule but the minority protect ed. now we are in a position where if the minority has all the power. dee dee myers listed five things that happened that would prove that the president would never budge on health care. we knew it was his signature legislation. we knew during the jobs crisis to add to your point, chris, everyone was complaining why isn t he focused on b jobs? he s still clinging to health care. he rammed it through, got it done. why, chuck todd, would he at this point negotiate anything on health care? he s not going to. why would the republicans think he would revisit the question? i think you know, you re a victim of history.
we are getting more and more bipartisan consensus on that. more and more americans are losing their b jobs. more americans are being forced into part-time work. more americans are seeing health insurance premiums skyrocket and losing health insurance. there was a meeting of fran cheesee e ee franchises. obamacare is the biggest factor driving the growth in the economy and mandatory health care spending. they point out obamacare raises taxes by $770 billion over the next ten years. senator lee they say it is unsustainable. it is. it s going to kill jobs, result in a lot of people losing jobs, not being able to get jobs or having hours reduced. doctors hate it. it will interfere with the ability to practice medicine. families hate it. most recognize this will make their family s health care situation worse, not better. the american people are coming
everybody told me there were going to be weapons of mass destruction. a lot of people said things at work, at school. people watching the show will remember. they were ostracized. yeah. you couldn t say anything. the dixie chicks lost their career. they were finished. other people lost b jobs. mess. yeah. because we were told at that time in a democracy we are not allowed to dissent. we are not allowed to ask questions. today learned from vietnam in the previouser w wars don t put images on the screen. don t let them see coffins coming home. let s get our media embedded. let s end the segment with the results of the cnn poll about iraq. they were asked would you say the initial decision to send u.s. troops to iraq was a smart or dumb thing to do. americans replied 59% dumb, 38%
hour that we are sitting in at 9:42 p.m. eastern time, the bombing started. the fact that no one has paid for this criminal act, why would an american such as george w. bush send thousands of americans off to their deaths? for what reason? and why doesn t he have to answer for that? i just you know, look, i said this back then. i took a lot of hit for it. everybody told me there were going to be weapons of mass destruction. a lot of people said things at work, at school. people watching the show will remember. they were ostracized. yeah. you couldn t say anything. the dixie chicks lost their career. they were finished. other people lost b jobs. mess. yeah. because we were told at that time in a democracy we are not allowed to dissent. we are not allowed to ask