5-4 number. the other number that i think is important is 2014. that is when key provisions of the health care law actually go into effect. and proponents of the law that i spoke to yesterday, some have said this publicly as well, despair over the fact that 2014 is when keyáz provisions go int effect. there s a lot of running room for republicans now to seek to overturn this and to replace it before the bulk of the benefits, plenty that s already in effect that s helping people, before the bulk of the benefits actually go into effect. much harder to take something away once it s been given. the tax angle is a strong opening for çrepublicans. republicans could just say, listen, right now we re not going to focus on the law between now and the election. we re going to have votes on overturning the obama health care tax. you go that way and make the democrats in the senate and make the president continue to support this. what has now been labeled by the high court as a health care
of them, running around saying barack obama is a socialist, he drove up the national debt to $14 trillion and dance around in a circle and congratulate each other. that s not true. no, i think the dirty secret is that obama is a moderate conservative. if i were a liberal democrat, i probably would be upset. the point is a $1 trillion debt, and another poring is from the prapgs drug bill. the whole rest of that is from a lousy economy under bush and these two wars he came up with. that s right. theç republicans keep saying t tax cuts are the key to prosperi prosperity. the 2000s are evidence that that is not true. we had booming economies in the 1980s and 90s. if we went back to those taxes,
some of them clowns, not all of them, running around saying barack obama is a socialist, he drove up the national debt to $14 trillion and dance around in a circle and congratulate each other. that s not true. no, i think the dirty secret is that obama is a moderate conservative. if i were a liberal democrat, i probably would be upset. the point is a $1 trillion debt, and another poring is from the prapgs drug bill. the whole rest of that is from a lousy economy under bush and these two wars he came up with. that s right. theç republicans keep saying t tax cuts are the key to prosperi prosperity. the 2000s are evidence that that is not true. we had booming economies in the 1980s and 90s.
today. it s really i ve never seen anything quite like it. and you have to ask yourself why. either they don t care about jobs or they care more about politics and want to bring the democrats down by saying, well thanks can t get a bill through the senate floor. i leave it up to you. you re the bun who is going to comment on this. senator, do you think that ç republicans have the feeling that with all the anthony weiner talk and all the distracting talk that has nothing to actually do with governing that they can cast votes like this and they really won t be noticed? you won t be able to exploit these politically? that s a really good point. but, you know, i think we re going to make sure people understand. i started with a series of speeches object this, and the leaders are going to go forward with this. we re going to have a jobs agenda. and maybe the folks missed the first, second, and third, you
health care, you will get a voucher. and if that voucher isn t worth enough to buy the insurance that s available in the open marketplace, tough luck. you re on your own. put simply, it ends medicare as we know it. john, you said a minute ago that nobody is out it this telling them about the republican plan. i just saw this guy doing it. his name is obama. he s a troubadour. he did, but if the party as a whole cannot wrap the ryan plan around the necks of those ç republicans who voted for it, and we ll see whether it comes up for a vote in the senate, if it they can t do that, they should find another line of work, chris. i agree. this is a big fat one over the middle of the plate for the democratic party. actually, it s all politics. this is what they yuszed to fight about and they re still fighting about it. thank you both of you for