they say it wasn t statistically that significant. does it surprise you this doesn t go down or it is where it s at? it s where it s at until 2014 assuming the health legislation is where it s at. it didn t surprise me so much but sanjay think of it this way. while it only went up 1 million people a lot lower than people expected, think of it like 12 football stadiums filled with people that lost their health care last year. the numbers are still that big, they didn t grow that much because the unemployment rate between 2009 through 2010 was already pretty bad. and because if you have a job, if you have cobra it lasted for 18 months afterwards, if you find another job you can get health insurance there. what if you don t have cobra or you can t afford the premium? that s a big problem because you know most employer health insurance is subsidized by the employer and when you lose your job and go on cobra you lose that subsidy and in the stimulus act a few years ago there
scientists come forward to challenge her claims about the controversial hpv vaccine. jim acosta is covering the race to unseat perry. shall we say it is a race indeed. it absolutely is, wolf, and the only thing missing from the campaign trail this week, michael buffer. the professional wrestler master of ceremonies, who s known for his battle cry, let s get ready to rumble. it s the main event for the gop comes down to rick perry versus mitt romney, stand back. just yesterday, that jobs legacy in massachusetts got even worse. in iowa, perry is laying into romney s health care plan, pointing to this study from a conservative think tank that concluded the program has cost the state 18,000 jobs. a finding romney aides call deeply flawed. it kills toos many jobs and gets between you and your doctor. doesn t make any difference whether it s passed in massachusetts or washington, d.c. it is bad medicine and needs to be stopped. his campaign is holding up this gallup poll.
look, all day long representative boehner has been saying taxes can t be on the table. revenues can t be on the table. you know, by the way, nancy pelosi somewhat to my surprise said, you can t begin these negotiations without revenues on the table and entitlements on the table. she is trying to do what the president has done which is to come to the table with an open mind. you simply can t achieve a sustainable budget deficit simply on the basis of spending cuts alone. now let me go back to a point that doug has very deeply wrong here. you are absolutely right, doug. the president inherited the worst recession since the great depression. then because of the stimulus act and the action of the federal reserve, an economy falling off a cliff was then growing again as you correctly pointed out starting in mid 2009. how fast? since then it s been stuck absolutely in neutral. his policies have failed. we need to build on the programs that got us here going forward. they didn t g
it is now 7:00 eastern time and president obama is just moments away from entering the chamber of house of representatives where he will tell congress and the american people his plan to create jobs. as we wait for the president with, i m joined my lawrence o donnell, rachel maddow, ed schultz and reverend al sharpton. reverend al was just introducing the cabinet as they were coming out. they are joining the president. there is timothy geithner. rachel, we have a couple of moments to talk about this as the president prepares to come in here. i guess the question i think, and i go back to his action. words have been spoken for three years. i think people want action. can he make congress act? i think that president thinks that he can make congress act. if he calls them on things they have already said they are in favor of. when we saw the first stimulus act, chris, just a few months after the president was
honest with ourselves is that we have a political culture that doesn t seem willing to make the tough choices to move america forward. we have a willingness to play partisan games and engage in brinkmanship, that not only costs us in terms of the economy now but also is going to place a burden on future generations. and the question is, can we break out of that pattern? can we break out of that pattern? think about it. we just went through this debacle with the debt ceiling, an entirely self inflicted wound. it wasn t something that was necessary. we had put forward a plan that would have stabilized our debt and our deficits for years to come. but because we have got a politics in which some folks in congress, not the folks who are here, but some in congress would rather see their opponents lose than america win, and we ended up creating more uncertainty and more damage to an economy that was already weak. now we can t have patience with that kind of behavior anymore. i know