jobs program. what were the two greatest we had? you mentioned the new deal which required an explosion in national government spending. and the second was reagan tax cuts, 25% across the board. folks have created millions of jobs. problem is most of them added immediately enormously to the deficit and to the debt. how do you do that, joe, after what we ve just been through? well, i actually, again, the two things that are going on right now, short term deficits and long term structural debt. i would argue over the next two years, even the next five years we can make those investments in infrastructure without threatening america s long term stability. again, it s going to be defense spending. it s the endless wars that are the great challenges. it s medicare, medicaid, it s social security and guess what? the most liberal member of congress, willie understands that, the most conservative
two and put it in quote marks, our only two enemies really left to pull out anti-american leaders are in iran and syria. i think a lot of people have found it curry obvious the president hesitated in 2009 speaking out against 20 oat. we understand that what he said in 2008 about having an open dialogue with the iranian people. but syria? i find that curious. what else could we do? that s the answer to joe s question. they felt, i think because of the pressure from the rest of the arab world that they did not have any allies and could not take on syria without arab allies. many will argue, joe, that they took on the wrong fight that they shouldn t be worried about libya, which is not strategic and should be worried about syria, which is not only accused of being a state sponsor of
should be revenue as part of next round of debt reduction. in the polls, there s public support for both those things but he s not won that argument and he has a chance now in the context of the next five months to do it. i m sure pat buchanan would like to weigh in. good morning. let me clarify something that happened last night on the al sharpton show, a very spirited discussion. i was asked who was the big losers and big winners. i said one of the biggest losers was your boy and i meant the president of the united states, reverend sharpton then said my boy is the president of the united states. and he s doing a rope a dope in the alley fashion and will finish off your crowd. some folks took what i said as some kind of a slur, none was meant, none was intended, none was delivered for the record. let me talk to mark and joe s point. everybody want as tremendous
buchanan. willie and joe. can i say something this morning? you re going to make fun of my tablecloth? i love a good family italian restaurant. bottle of red, bottle of wine. and someone come in and shoot two of us at a table. depends on your appetite. mike, just to get the attention of what i m wearing this morning, can somebody get me a blue jacket, please i get a mike so i can t take this off. i think it looks nice. what? go with it. go with it. this from a woman who is wearing i dream of jeanne
public statements seemed to be embittered yet stepped back at the critical time to yield his support. you know, we ve been tough on harry. that s what a grown up does when your 24 hours away from a possible meltdown. but, yeah. biden and mitch mcconnell, pat buchanan they were the two guys that made this work at the end of the day. they did. they are the guys that did it, joe. look at what s been done. let s go down the road to this bipartisan commission. mark, it looks to me the bipartisan commission, let s say they come up and get senators 7-5 vote for tax increases, the house will reject it. if they don t vote for some kind of tax revenue the senate rejects it. then what you got is the dead lock and you go into the automatic cuts, 600 billion comes out of defense which, joe, means a war between the fiscal hawks in the republican party, the ron pauls and those folks