his mind to go to mexico? armed with all that evidence, simps simpson s conviction seems a foregone conclusion. with a mountain of evidence proving beyond any reasonable doubt that he had savagely murdered nicole brown simpson, the mother of his two young children, and ronald goldman, how did o
making sure we move to responsibly managing our debt and deficit, getting our deficit down to less than 3% of the gdp, as every economist in the bowls simps simpson, all the gang of six have focused us on doing, but also make sure we make that investments to keep our middle class strong. the point of our budget is to make sure that we show that we have a ten-year plan, if we can put it into place, we will get our economy moving again, we will begin to manage our debt, and we will quit doing this management by crisis where every time we turn around, the republicans say they ll shut the government down if we don t cut more. we need to have a responsible plan. that is what i m putting forward. it s what the democrats are
street journal writing about sim sons bowles and i m hearing more and more on both sides of the aisle the need to embrace simpson-bowles and revive it. is the president prepared to do that either in the speech this week or before the end of the term? the president laid out a framework which is very similar to simpson-bowles. the problem with getting simpson-bowles moving forward is that the republicans signed a pledge committing that they wouldn t add a single penny of revenue. there isn t an economist that we know on any side of the political spectrum that thinks that we can bring our house in order without revenue, so, of course, the framework of simpson-bowles makes a lot of sense and if the republicans would be willing to embrace that, we could come to the table and get it done. why wouldn t you just put it out there and say, be you know, step up or not. it s been out there. and but he s not embraced itp. he laid out a framework which is very similar to simps simpson-b
citizens ought to pay more for their medicare benefits. i think it s ridiculous we subsidize medicare for wealthy people. why not just endorse simps simpson-bowl simpson-bowles? a bipartisan agreement including a number of republican senators you may recall i was the guy on the super committee that put together a framework that was parallel and many ways consistent with simpson-bowles. i got no cooperation from the other side. senator pat toomey, thank you very much. david walker, thank you as well. our next guest was once viewed as a rising star on the democratic party, speaking at the 2008 convention? support of then senator barack obama. we ll ask former alabama congressman artur davis why he s not switching political parties. and is critical of the obama administration. you re watching morning joe, brewed by starbucks.
which appears to hope that syria s president assad will negotiate his own departure, seems utterly doomed. instead, america, the western world, indeed, the civilized world should attempt to dislodge the assad regime. but is there a smart way to do it? for a number of reasons military intervention is unlikely to work well in syria. unlike in, say, libya, syria is not a vast country with huge stretches of land where rebels can retreat, hide, and be resupplied. syria is roughly one-tenth the size of libya, but with three times as many people. perhaps for this reason the syrian rebels have not been able to take control of any significant part of that country. the geopolitics of military intervention are also unattractive. in egypt and even in libya all major regional powers, world powers were on the side of dislodging the regime or at least passively accepting that it would happen. in syria that s not the case. iran and russia have both maintained strong ties to the assad regime,