growth you ve got, the faster we come fully out of this downturn, the more revenue that will be generated as we put more people back to work. so that has got to be the focus and the priority. but it is also true, as the president s deficit and debt reduction commission said, we have to act now to put ourselves on that fiscally sustainable path. that is why we hope to work together. now, last night was important symbolically. a lot of democrats and republicans working together. as the president indicated, the test will be whether we can now come together to solve these problems. and coming together doesn t mean we agree on everything. but it does mean that we all have to give a little as we try and tackle these common challenges. it sounds like, though, gramm, no one on either side of the aisle is eager to touch that social security issue and the entitlements that gobble up so much of what we re spending. sounds like that is still off the table. well, certainly i don t think
i ve been waiting for this one to pop up. viral video, josh levs is here. these guys are really good. this is from jib jab. they sent this today. it s their year end review. it s really good. we see obama and biden together. take a look. we arrived in 09 on a rainbow of hope but 2010 blew it all in smoke the tea party rallies the banks going broke so long to you 120 . any remind you of all the big events this year. go ahead and skip to the next section of this video i ve got for you. we were so sad when ramm said good-bye california just wants to get
a year, he can t run. in the city known for boisterous politics, this hearing could get interesting. jim warren is an msnbc contributor. give us the lay of the land here, jim. what is going to happen? well, little less momentum than the julian assange hearing. i never thought there would be a common denominator between ramm and julian assange. the fact is that even though the state municipal code says you have to have lived there for a year before the election and only gives you an exemption for military service, the much broader and i think more relevant legal matter happens to be the state election code, which gives a broad exemption for government service quote/unquote. he pays taxes here, he votes here, he owns a house here and, perhaps most important of all, the intent. past history suggests that the board of elections counts that as most important and everybody and his mother knew, chris, that
that he does. this was a great sacrifice for ramm, amy and the family to move out here. rahm gave up one of the most powerful positions on capitol hill to do this and in the last 20 months, rahm has exceeded all of my expectations. it is fair to say that we could not have accomplished what we ve accomplished without rahm s leadership from preventing a second depression to passing historic health care and financial reform legislation to restoring america s leadership in the world. for nearly two years, i ve begun my work day with rahm and i have ended my work day with rahm. much to amy s chagrin, i have intruded on his life at almost any hour of the day, any day of the week with just enormous challenges.
coronary artery disease that means he has a buildup of plaque, the stuff that contains cholesterol in his arteries and keeps building up. for some reason, they haven t been able to control it with medications. even after he had the bypass. he has not had a heart attack and a heart attack occurs when that plaque ruptures and causes a complete disruption of the blood flow to the heart. he has had these two procedures which are called revascularization, increasing the blood flow. this is a die gramm of how the accident work, a tube is placed in the heart and the piece of metal is the stent and reopens the arteries, allowing flood flow to resume to the heart. this is such a common procedure, chris, 1 million americans a year get this. there has about a pushback in the death rate of heart disease in the last decades and because of procedures like. this people use toddy of heart disease in their 40s and 50s but