republicans begin to look at a more balanced approach. and here s shouldn t medicare be in there, too, making sure democrats look at a balanced approach? absolutely. i m one of the democrats saying we have to look at entitlement reform, but david, there s a big difference between telling warren buffett we re not going to buy his prescription drugs anymore and converting it to a voucher program. there are things we can do with both social security and medicare that will preserve them, protect them, protect the beneficiaries, protect the benefits, without gutting them. and that s really the case. if we have a balanced approach, we will preserve those programs as we know them and we ll be able to get at our long-term debt structure. both have to be on the table. we can t keep going down a road where they want to keep pushing more public money to big oil but don t want to address the other issues. senator thune, september 29th, 2008, was an important debate, an important day. that
result. could you live with that? well, i think we have to make sure there is defense spending in there, because we ve got to have something to make the republicans begin to look at a more balanced approach. and here s shouldn t medicare be in there, too, making sure democrats look at a balanced approach? absolutely. i m one of the democrats saying we have to look at entitlement reform, but there s a difference between telling warren buffett we re not going to buy his prescription drugs anymore and converting it to a voucher program. there are things we can do with both social security and medicare that will preserve them, protect them, protect the beneficiaries, protect the benefits, without gutting them. and that s really the case. if we have a balanced approach, we will preserve those programs as we know them and we ll be able to get at our long-term debt structure. both have to be on the table. we can t keep going down a road where they want to keep pushing more public mo
the t.a.r.p. vote. it was september 29th, 2008, john boehner was then the minority leader of the house republican conference. he went to his conference and said, look, i know that this bill, this measure, is a quote/unquote crap sandwich, but he asked them to go ahead and ingest it. and he did it and the majority of his conference did not do it, but this is a different circumstance now. he s thousand the speaker of the house. the gavel was put in his hands on the strength of those 87 freshmen. and of course their hallmark is fiscal conservatism and many are the bedrock hardcore of the resistance of the bill that even went through the house of representatives that you got believe will view that would come down to the senate. the senate product is somewhat an even more diluted than that. here is the house gop line. this is what they ll tell thab
more balanced approach. and here s shouldn t medicare be in there, too, making sure democrats look at a balanced approach? absolutely. i m one of the democrats saying we have to look at entitlement reform, but there s a difference between telling warren buffett we re not going to buy his prescription drugs anymore and converting it to a voucher program. there are things we can do with both social security and medicare that will preserve them, protect them, protect the beneficiaries, protect the benefits, without gutting them. and that s really the case. if we have a balanced approach, we will preserve those programs as we know them and we ll be able to get at our long-term debt structure. both have to be on the table. we can t keep going down a road where they want to keep pushing more public money to big oil but don t want to address the other issues. senator thune, september 29th, 2008, was an important debate, an important day. that was the t.a.r.p. bailout of the banks. tha
president obama is expected to address the tragedy when he holds an easter prayer breakfast at the white house. the opening bell just rang on wall street. the dow could reach the 11,000 mark today. for the first time since september 29th, 2008. that was just two weeks after the big financial collapse. president obama is redefining america s nuclear option after a year s worth of talks about how to balance u.s. security with the goal of a nuclear-free world. david sanger is chief washington correspondent for the new york times and he and peter baker interviewed the president yesterday on this new review. and to cold warriors this is a big deal but to people that basically didn t grow up during the cold war, explain why this is a big deal. you know, the nuclear arsenal, chuck, has been basically uneffective over the many years by the end of the cold war. you know, we still are sitting on thousands of nuclear weapons aimed at a threat that no one really thinks is the major threat