congress. in the meantime the detroit attorney is running for michigan attorney general on this platform. we need more women in positions of power, not less. when you are choosing michigan s next attorney general ask yourself this who can you trust most not to show you there in a professional setting? [laughter] greg: it has come to that. and all of this is having an effect on office christmas parties. box media is ditching its open bar to help curb unprofessional behavior which seems absurd. rt needs don t grow people. people grope people. that s a strong powerful message, kat. [applause] what you make of this whole thing? do you want to talk about the
leadership and collaboration, and in this budget, we have neither. collaboration like working together to further the same policy? apparently not. congressman ryan was not the only republican to chime in. speaker boehner called the president s proposal his most irresponsible budget yet. speaking as the man who stood idly by while his party shut down the federal government and nearly crashed the u.s. economy, not but six months ago speaker boehner should know a thing or two about responsibility. joining me, political editor and white house correspondent at huffington post, sam stein and editor and chief of the highly anticipated project x at box media ezra klein. is there any chance, maybe parallel universe, that republicans support something they actually support that the president also happens to support like the earned income tax cred it? yes, definitely in a parallel universe. great. done. i want to take a second,
the american worker has had a pretty rough time of it over the last six years. yet somehow no one feels more oppressed and under siege than their bosses. tim armstrong, no exception. joining me now, msnbc contributor ezra klein, editor in chief of project x his new journalistic venture. ezra, since all this press has been around your new venture, i have to ask you, now that you ll be launching a startup within another company, are you going to be taking management advice from tim armstrong and telling people that you re cutting benefits because, you know, two of your fellow employees had sick kids? we have extremely good health care benefits in my venture. this is actually an important point, right? box media. aol is orders of magnitude larger. the thing obamacare doesn t really do is affect large companies. there s something obamacare has done that large employers love. it s a huge benefit to them, and the main thing it s done for them is any change they want to make to benefits,