most people don t know they got a tax cut. i mean, the president is not good at communicating which is the ultimate irony. let me ask you about that. is it a problem of communication because the administration said that again and again. polling says people are tired of that line. also on this issue of internal issues with the democrats, the president is taking heat from people like senator nelson, bill nelson out of florida but also from folks like franken and bernie sanders who think he s not pushing us far enough to the left. is he sort of stuck in the middle at this point? a communication problem, president obama was elected as the greatest communitior. he s held more press conferences given more speeches than any of his predecessors in modern times. it s not a communications problem. it s a policy problem because barack obama and the democrats acted as though the 2008
did i pronounce that right? shannon: sounds right to me. whatever helps lindsay get better we are all for that. the holiday season is upon us. is the weather going to cooperate? rick reichmuth has all the latest. hi, rick. a kind of a rough week ahead of us for a lot of people. you see this contrast in temperatures. very cold air across the northern rockies and northern plains. warm i cros across the south. enjoy it now because it will change. a lot of people will be seeing snow. the next 48 hours snow from parts of minnesota back down towards minnesota and all of the west. an additional 2 to 3 feet of snow in the west on top of the two or three feet across the sierra, nevada. this is the first storm bringing rain and causing flooding concerns at times and then another storm behind this that will continue to pull on in as well. one other big problem this morning, freezing rain that
you mentioned the issues of spending. a lot of the proposals as far as deficit reduction also include possibly raising taxes, something that most republicans very hem meantly oppose. that part of the solution, and how willing will people be to come to the table with that as an option? will, you can t get there from here unless everything s on the table. it s that simple. the biggest part of the problem is spending. the biggest part of the problem, as i said, is about 75% spending, but we have revenue issues. whayou don t have to raise rateo address the revenue issues. the way you address the revenue issues, you fundamentally change our tax laws. our tax laws are incredibly complex. they re inefficient. they don t raise the money they claim they re supposed to raise. if you change the tax laws, you can do it in a bi-partisan way. we ve put out a plan where we basically eliminate a lot of deductions and exemptions. in exchange for that we dramatically reduce the th incoe tax rates of a
than one percent, and they re not the real problem. most oppose the measure. to get an idea of how much congressional earmarks are costing you personally, go to fox news.com and use our taxpayer calculator. with the focus on cutting spending, the you cut movement has urged average americans to go on line and vote for programs they would like to eliminate or scale back. a proposal to cut funding for npr s funding won a cut vote. is that a sign that congress is out of touch with the people. the congressman who introduced the proposal joins us with the reaction. great to see you today. are you surprised at all? you come from the g.o.p. side of the aisle. democrats are still running the house, so for now are you surprised they voted down this idea? i was not surprised, but i was disappointed. every single vote against the cut in spending was for democrats. we had bi-partisan support to reduce this amount of spending.
there has been a buzz about that. what are you hearing from the folks there in the carolinas? you just heard the president it is the only thing that can be done in order to protect us from the underwear bomber or what have you. can you believe we are in a point in this country where the american people have to stand up to the federal government and say don t touch my junk. it is crazy and people are buzzing about this. we talked about it several times this week and i know you have a couple of clips from the show. the solution to the tsa air flight problem. have flights. one with security and one without. and if you want to have the security and patdown and whole nine yards get on that plane. if you feel comfortable with your safety and you don t want the patdown get on that flight. hi, keith, if i show up to security wearing a one piece bathing suit or a spandex suit would they still pat me down or