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michael grunwald, good to have you with us tonight. thanks ofor being on the ed show. erskine bowles and allen simpson introduced a new simpson/bowles deficit reduction plan today, even though nobody asked them to do it. the new simpson/bowles is worse than the old one. there is only $600 billion in tax savings less than what they proposed before. now there are cuts to medicare, medicaid and social security benefits. the ratio of cuts to new tax revenue is three-to-one. who voted for that? today bowles and simpson were interrupted by protesters as they tried to pitch their new plan. this is a proper response to the latest simpson/bowles proposal. pay your fair taxes. pay your fair tax. some cuts don t yield. we need good jobs now. pay your tax. let s bring in jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and columnist for bloomberg view
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the least popular senator is desperately attacking ashley judd. and david corn, the co-author of hubris and co-author of the msnbc documentary tells me what was left out. i m sure the administration cooked the books. good to have you with us, folks. thanks for watching. keep in mind when you hear the word sequester, the sequester cuts were designed to be so bad, so terrible, that lawmakers would be forced to come up with an alternative plan. well, that didn t work. with these cuts are on the verge of happening anyway. march 1 is the big date, a week from this friday. president obama responded with a real sense of urgency today. he made the strongest case yet about the damage these sequester cuts will do to the country s economy. these cuts are not smart. they are not fair. they will hurt our economy. they will add hundreds of thousands of americans to the unemployment roles. this is not an abstraction. people will lose their jobs. people standing with the
breathtaking if he said that. okay. so let s see if we re all on the same page here and have this correct. a right-wing website publishes a resumer from a blog based on something hagel may or may not have said in a speech over, count them, five years ago. and now sitting united states senators are demanding hagel explain himself. hagel provided ayotte and graham with a copy of the speech and notes he does not recall making any such statement. now, folks, this is a pattern for the new gop that maybe mr. viguerie is looking for. senator rand paul pushing a theory about moving guns from libya to syria. paul s theory can be traced back to glenn beck. michele bachmann accused hillary clinton s chief of staff of having ties to the muslim brotherhood. her source? an uncorroborated report from a right wing talker frank gaffney.