112th. it s just a different it s a role reverse. it s almost like it s boehner s turn to pick up the gavel and stop everybody. here is virginia governor bob mcdonald. this is a great example of how republicans play this game. take a listen. we need to cut spending, and more than the sequester. but don t put 50% of the cuts on the u.s. military. oh, by the way, the u.s. military is in virginia. i mean, this is a classic comment right there. you know, he wants all these spending cuts, but don t do it in my backyard. i mean, that s where they are. they re self-serving in many regards, and this is why the country can t stand government right now, can t stand the congress. well, look, it s total head-spinning, ed. here is the republican line. if you cut defense spending so you have fewer people building ships and things like that, that loses jobs. yeah. and frankly, it does. but if you cut transportation spending or you cut head start programs, somehow that doesn t hurt jobs. t
or whoever it may be. well, they re obstructing in the house, just like they obstructed in the senate in the 112th. it s just a different it s a role reverse. it s almost like it s boehner s turn to pick up the gavel and stop everybody. here is virginia governor bob mcdonald. this is a great example of how republicans play this game. take a listen. we need to cut spending, and more than the sequester. but don t put 50% of the cuts on the u.s. military. oh, by the way, the u.s. military is in virginia. i mean, this is a classic comment right there. you know, he wants all these spending cuts, but don t do it in my backyard. i mean, that s where they are. they re self-serving in many regards, and this is why the country can t stand government right now, can t stand the congress. well, look, it s total head-spinning, ed. here is the republican line. if you cut defense spending so you have fewer people building ships and things like that, that loses jobs. yeah. and frankly, it
of these more targeted, smaller funding initiatives for transit? that s an important question, s.e. and needs looking at what kind of projects to funding and wrong to suggest we don t need to fund fixing the bridges or even the highway systems. the american society of civil engineers said we need to invest $157 billion a year in our infrastructure or lose 3.1 trillion in the economy over the next few years. that s obviously something to pay attention to so i don t want to suggest it s wrong to have big projects but what we don t have in transportation spending that we should have to make government smarter is actual long-term planning so where are our investments best made in order to ensure that we are making the smart investments? public transit is one of those and really been one grossly underfunded and let s remember that literally, literally 75% of
eric: time for a check of the headlines. president obama signing a bipartisan bill to authorize $100 billion in transportation spending over the next two years. and they say prevent a spike in interest rates on loans to college students. an autopsy showing the estranged wife of robert kennedy, junior had antidepressants, but no alcohol in her system when she committed suicide. 52-year-old mary kennedy hanged herself at the family s new york estate in may. u.s. representative thaddeus mccotter of michigan says he s resigning. the five-term republican, raging guitar playing, says he s leaving office for the good of his family. the 46-year-old ran for the republican on the nation for president last year. but his campaign for congress hit a snag when authorities say not enough signatures were filed to put him on the ballot for
deficit under the terms that bowles-simpson laid out. unless you, essentially, eliminate discretionary spending. you don t just cut discretionary spending. everything we think of as a being pretty important from education to basic science and research to transportation spending to national parks to environmental protection, we d essentially have to eliminate. i guess another way of thinking about this is, and this bears on your reporting, i think that there is oftentimes the impulse to suggest that if two parties are disagreeing, then they re equally at fault, and the truth lies somewhere in the middle. and a equivalence is presented. which is, reinforces, i think,