complete for aid or make them solve the problems? are we going to raise taxes or cut spending? those are the two fundamental issues. on those issues, if obama says and does the right stuff he will get re-elected like bill clinton did in 1996. greta: the problem for a lot of these things if he does the things that many americans want, it s another way to covertly say i was wrong. it s very hard i think for a lot of politicians to say maybe my idea wasn t the right one. bill clinton never really said that. but he certainly did move to the center. he did go with the spending cut and tax cuts that he resisted in the first two years. he was big enough to do it. wonder if obama is. greta: we ll see. very interesting in the next few weeks, months and years. dick, thank you. thank you, greta. greta: next, it looks like the white house is playing favorites. are you one of their favorites? if not, why not? that s minutes away.
they could extend it farther if they want. if it passes tomorrow and i think it will, it will go through the government. there are 19 that are undecided. the 19 include mr. john thune who you had on. kyl from arizona, kay bailey hutchison and vitter from louisiana. i have a list of them on dickmorris.com and their phone numbers. there s never been a more important procedural vote before the congress starts than this one. go to the website and look up your senator dickmorris.com and call him and tell him you want him or her to vote against earmarks. this is crucial. huge portion of the deficit,
premium but not the sky is the limit. greta: they were providing something to employees and the new law said you have to buy more. not good enough. greta: so they were going to say okay, we ll not do in the pool, throw them in the pool. so the government thought oh, no, we want the people to be in, we don t want them to go in the pool and we ll give them exemption and they don t have to provide coverage that the rest of the nation was getting. three states offer the program, because they say it s better than anything. now, the obama administration says we ll give you a one waiver and for 111 companies they have a one-year waiver. greta: what happens in a year? then they go back and again beg the white house for another waiver for additional year. that is the problem. this is the healthcare patient bill of right. now, they have to get amnesty from the bill of rights and get the exemptions from bill of rights. that is ludicrous. there is several aspects to this.
spending levels. index that for inflation. that saves $450 billion over ten years. $90 billion next year alone. greta: why not include all spending. mandatory as well as discretionary? we have to take on mandatory spending. we have to take on entitlement programs. that s where the real money is as they say. this is an important first step. i think it will demonstrate to the american people we re serious. if we can do this on discretionary spending. by the way, it s gone up 21% in the last two years in the time the inflation is 3.#%. it s growing three times inflation. we have to have the entitlement program debate because it will be two-third of the budget. greta: was discretionary spending i looked it up before is 37% of the spending. if you wanted 37% you ask for all of it. let s cut all spending. no, no, no. okay. let s just do discretionary. everybody is happy they only did 37%. in order to get out in the
republicans and i think pat does, too. we fundamentally need a president to stand above politics for us to achief with a we need to as a society. greta: doug, thank you. thank you so much, greta. greta: president obama did blame himself for something. what is it? we tell you. then dick morris goes on the record. plus, another illegal immigration d immigration dust-up. do you think immigrants should get breaks at public universities an colleges? stay tuned. [ female announcer ] fa: the medicine in children s advil® is the #1 pediatrician recommended pain reliever for children. plus, children s advil® brings fever down faster than children s tylenol®. choose children advil®. relief you can trust. [ exclaims ] .with.stage presence. a new phone witholby surround sound speakers. only from at&t. rethink possible.