republicans in the country. unforeseen but now here. trouble on a grand scale for the leader of the republican party in the united states senate. as mitch mcconnell prepares to bring his senate minority back to washington after the weekend, this editorial in his hometown newspaper is staring him in the face. look at this. mcconnell s true colors. this is from louisville s courier-journal newspaper. the paper is denouncing their home state senator, the top republican in the senate for what they call, contemptible hypocrisy. what is this all about? it is about this actually. decision points, the new memoir from george w. bush that has just been released. this is definitely not james thurber and i am definitely not trying to be keith but i do actually have to read out of this book for just a second so please forgive me, okay. page 355, start of chapter 12. in september 2006 with the midterm elections approaching my friend mitch came to the oval office senior senator from k
and later, how much say should the government have over what you feed your kids? mcdonald s in san francisco are being totaled to take the toys out of happy meals that don t meet new nutritional guidelines. dr. phil says it s up to parents, not politicians, to police kids diets. what do you think? we ll talk about it. we begin as always keeping them on e. with amazon.com profiting from pedophilia. last night we told you about a book being sold on amazon.com. a guide for pedophiles. a disgusting self-published e-book offered since late october. around the time our broadcast was done last night, amazon had suddenly pulled the book from the website. today we looked closer at what else amazon.com is selling. we were amazed at what we found. first, this is the book we told but last night, called the pedophile s guide to love and pleasure, a child lover s code of do not conduct. it s hard to even say these words. he described it this way, the misspellings are his, this is my att
americans. and maybe the rich are paying enough taxes already. the administration softening its position on the bush tax cuts. compromise is in the air. that didn t take long. and just 24 hours after president obama s panel announces a plan to cut trillions of dollars from america s ballooning debt an ambitious, politically explosive plan to bring the federal budget under control the white house signals it s willing to work with republicans on the one thing, the only thing they all stand for. i ve said this about 500 times. extending all of the current tax rates. it s too bad they call them the bush tax cuts. republicans jubilant with continuing with the same policies that began under the president that ballooned the national debt. for the white house a political calculation. david axelrod gave an interview saying hey look, we ve got to deal with the hand we re played. the president himself has said so, so it s pretty clear where we re headed. it onl
president barack obama: we ll sit down and discuss how we move forward. my number one priority is making sure that we make the middle class tax cuts permanent. that we give certain the 98% of americans, affected by those tax breaks. gregg: malini wilkes is live in washington with more on the story. why is the president strongly against expending taxes for the wealthy, tax cuts, i should say? reporter: good morning, women the president says we cannot afford to extend those upper income tax cuts, he says, we need the money to address the deficit and people like him, who make a lot of money, should be should pay. president obama arrived in japan, now, for another economic summit, and, talked about these tax cuts before departing the g20 in seoul, south korea and the issue is, president obama wants to extend these cuts for the middle class and not for the williest americans, making over $250,000 a year. republicans want them for everyone and, this week, david axelrod, sen
then he failed to win strong support for his get tough policy with china on tried and currency disputes. the president returns to washington sunday facing critical meetings next week with congressional leaders of both parties as they stake out positions on key shoes. chief among them, whether to extend busch-era tax cuts for wealthy americans. mike viqueira joins us from the white house. we heard the president a little testy in his answers regarding what s happening at home. we also know he s getting heat from progressives and liberals who say the president must keep his promise. beginning monday, tamron, we have to wait for the new year for the new republican majority to take over, but beginning monday it s in with the old. speaker pelosi will still be residing over the house of representatives with a significant democratic majority. the question is what if anything is going to get done in terms of if tax cuts that appears to be a must-do piece of legislation. the presiden