home, become europe. it wasn t that they lost 2 million jobs. it was that 2 million people are not going to work because they re getting subsidized health care and don t need to work. that s different. jobs are also getting lost. the other part, some of the democrat response to this on the sunday shows today, is that those will free up jobs for other people to have. i do think it was interesting, and tell me i i m wrong about this, it seems like women were singled out. women will be staying home to raise the kids and have more free time, but you know, it s going to be everybody who is going to lose out on the full-time jobs. the democrats try to make every issue a pro-woman issue. even if in this case but this is americans. american jobs. these are american jaurbs and it s also ridiculous to make the case that a society, as pat points out, that is not functioning at full steam will be better more people staying home and less people being productive. what bothers me the mo
that on the sunday shows today. all right. so let s move on now to big developments with immigration reform. the senate is set to vote tomorrow on a border security amendment. supporters are hopeful that the whole bill could pass in the senate later on in the week but then it would go to the house where there s a gop faction that opposes it. let s take a listen to democratic senator chuck schumer today. i do believe that having a significant number of republicans will change the dynamic in the house. individual congress members from red districts, if they see their senator has voted for it, may decide to do the right thing. there will be huge pressure on speaker boehner not to block immigration reform because that would consign the republican party to minority status. robert, do you buy into that, that if they get enough republican support in the senate that the house will then follow suit? sort of. here s why. look, lindsey graham, republican senator from south carolina, said
a stalemate, does either side have any momentum in the talks? and if a compromise could be reached, what might it look like? we turn to our panel, a.b. stoddard of the hill and the washington post s ed o keefe. a.b. let me start with you, thoughts on what you heard on the sunday shows today. did it make it feel more or less optimistic that the two sides can come it an agreement? well, i think the democrats obviously are dogging on those tax hikes for the top 2%. that s obviously still a problem for republicans. you hear people like senator corker agreeing with congressman tom cole of oklahoma. to give on this brings the leverage back, i think into the republicans corner. i agree with the congressman. that it gets it off the table. you get into the new year and you bring the big fight on. and entitlement reform, the real money to the debt ceiling debate in late january or february. that s still where we re at. that s no matter what president obama says, about whether or not he s
equals an endorsement. my governor, good friend, actually, know him very well, but, governor, as of this moment i m not sure what a good job has been done. the victory am not sure. he green lighted the spending so he did a good job. he stopped in new jersey one time. imagine if president obama stopped one time before an election where people still don t have their homes, don t have power, it is a disaster zone, during a notal campaign would have taken more heat. christie had to come out and clarify because he was over-the-top. and the media really stretched this too far. you listen to the sunday shows today, the beltway media was sitting around the table acting like this was an endorsement. the fact they perceive it that way was very strange and a bridge way too far. i think that governor chris christie, everything he does, is over-the-top. that is why everyone loves him
understands the choice. stop lying, mr. president. lying? yeah! what s the lie? governor romney is not talking about tax cuts for the wealthy. he says that the wealthy will take just as much under the romney administration as they paid today. you can see jersey governor chris christie saying what mitt romney has been claiming, say that this barack obama ads are false. he wants to correct the record on obamacare and medicare, et cetera. very, very tough stuff f. mr. romney can accuse him of lying, that will be a very, very sharp moment. both sides trying to downplay the expectations in all of this, with the belief that if you can set the barlow enough, either one of them can jump over it. jamie: we have seen a lot of that. on the sunday shows today. carl, you have been to a number of debates. any inside intel on the keys that the viewers should be watching for from home on