a recent spade of bipartisan brokering seems to have broken the log jam in washington, but is it really working? and the politics of snow. new york s mayor bill de blasio sets off a firestorm of controversy over snow days. those are today s topic for our agenda panel. let s bring them in. irin carmon, sabrina, and bill scher of liberal oasis is also a liberal writer at campaign for america s future and a welcome to all three of you. here we go, guys, starting with politico, which has this story gotting us talking about the conversation of is washington working again? this article citing a two-year budget deal, a farm bill, and now you have house speaker john boehner sending the debt limit increase to the white house, no strings attached. sabrina, i m going to ask you what your take is and do you
florida is the only of the 50 states that does not have snow somewhere on the ground. yes, we have to get the power back, still 400,000 people without power. you don t like it and creates problems. bill karins, thank you so much for that. is washington working again? coming up, what the debt ceiling could mean for immigration reform. and later, why the rapper drake is, quote, disgusted at rolling stone magazine and why he is done doing magazine interviews. but when she saw the room. you turned into a weird 7 . when she saw the roof-top pool. you went to: 11 you two should probably get a room. oh that s right! you already did. at planet earth s number one accomodation site. booking.com booking.yeah!
there is an impressive bumper crop of women on their way to capitol hill and headliner, elizabeth warren indicates they ll take up legislation that benefits their gender. to all the women across massachusetts that are working your tails off, you better believe we re going to fight for equal pay for equal work. we will take a look at some of warren s soon-to-be senate colleagues and whether women can get washington working again. that s next on now. music is a universal language. but when i was in an accident. i was worried the health care system spoke a language all its own with unitedhealthcare, i got help that fit my life. information on my phone. connection to doctors who get where i m from. and tools to estimate what my care may cost. so i never missed a beat.
technology, we can have north american energy independence within eight years, and that s [cheers and applause] that means jobs. that means jobs here or in the energy sector as well as in manufacturing. manufacturing uses a lot of energy. and energy here will be abundant and inexpensive, and so manufacturing s going to come back. and by the way, energy jobs and manufacturing jobs, they create hospitality jobs and restaurant jobs, a lot of jobs. this is, this is a big plus for us, and taking full advantage of it is going to get us working again. [cheers and applause] that s number one. number two, number two, just a little background. we re the most productive nation of any major nation on earth. now, productive means this, it means that when you add up all the things that are made in america including all the services that are sold in america, you add em all up and divide them by the number of
things, become unpopular. with the tea party decline, will the parties be able to get something done in washington after the election is the question. joining me now, karen finney, msnbc political analyst and former communications director of the democratic national committee and e.j. dionne, columnist for the washington post, and he s writing today about whether this election can fix what is wrong thanks to both of you for being here. what has to happen to get washington working again? well, i think i m really glad you re doing this segment. because if president obama does win this election, one of the biggest debates, important to everybody and not just republicans, would be the debate inside the republican party about why they lost.