the spending committee, so this really does show where the large part of the republican congress does want to go, and i thinkure going to see phaupblgor spending cuts out of the house. jon: paul gigot, thank you. if you want to learn more about this intersection of politics and the economy, tune in tomorrow, for more with paul, he hosts the journal editorial report , 2:00 p.m., eastern time here on fox news channel, then do not move a muscle, you can get more of my coverage at 2:30, i lling hosting a great panel on fox newswatch , we ll take a big look at the media stories this week and how they were covered. jenna: you ve heard him ranting and raving, spewing antiamerican rhetoric, talking about venz yan lead hugo chavez. now he s angry about something else, a soap opera. yep, a soap opera, chavez speaking publicly on the issue last week, demand ago private tv station pull the show. it was made in colombia and takes a dig at the leader.
reid the first thing to get the senate to go along. bret? bret: thank you. senior political analyst brit hume has thoughts on the earmark process and possibly a problem for the new guy in charge. good evening. good evening, bret. when it comes to earmarks and the culture of wasteful spending they have come to symbolize, presumptive house speaker john boehner has a dilemma on his hands. it s this. what to do with the chairmanship of the house appropriation committee? the spending committee. the chairman gavel normally passes to the senior member. in this case, it would be 76-year-old jerry lewis of california who has been chairman once before and has a well-earned reputation for bringing home the blooodle. he would need waiver to run as chairman. behind him is hal rogers of kentucky known as prince of pork. watchdog group citizens against government waste named him porker of the year after he sought $5 million federal
projects. money that guess to universities and the like. these proposals are in the house right mao. what about the senate. in the senate it is a different story. in fact, democrats, for instance, the top democrat on the spending committee in the senate, daniel inouye panned this idea. you have republicans split on this. some of them may want to see earmark reform like this. but others say that, you know, this is our prerogative and also a check that we have on president obama s budget. actually one senate republican aide said this is a political ploy on the part of democrats and republicans in the house. even though we talked so much about how there isn t a lot of bipartisanship on the hill and as you know, there s certain lay bipartisan love of these earmarks. yeah. they like that. okay, thanks very much. brianna keilar. vice president biden went to the middle east to talk peace. but he wound up in a bit of a diplomatic spat with israel as he wraps up his trip there. will the