now, for the record, only 19 categories of the pew polled are discretionary, others are categories where congressional republicans want to see reduced spending. cuts to entitlement programs, medicare, medicaid, that is what john boehner wanted from the white house in exchange from the tax rest in the grand bargain. that is a top priority. and why if you listen to the debate very closely, if you listen to what john boehner is actually saying you may hear president obama talking a lot about his alternative. but you hear the republicans, you hear john boehner talking a lot about number one, how the sequester was barack obama s idea, they very cleverly called the obama-quester. how they don t mind at all. it is their leverage, they can handle it. no problem. what you don t hear a lot of, is a lot of detail about what is is house republicans would prefer
discretionary, others are categories where congressional republicans want to see reduced spending. cuts to entitlement programs, medicare, medicaid, that is what john boehner wanted from the white house in exchange from the tax rest in the grand bargain. that is a top priority. and why if you listen to the debate very closely, if you listen to what john boehner is actually saying you may hear president obama talking a lot about his alternative. but you hear the republicans, you hear john boehner talking a lot about number one, how the sequester was barack obama s idea, they very cleverly called the obama-quester. how they don t mind at all. it is their leverage, they can handle it. no problem. what you don t hear a lot of, is a lot of detail about what is is house republicans would prefer to cut. that is because what they prefer to cut is not popular to cut. joining me now are steve kornacki and krystal ball.
if you watched the grammys last night you know it was a soulful tribute to whitney houston. one performer there still too shaken up to sing and we ll talk about all the winners from last night. a massive budget battle. an election preview. it seems to be. the president is unveiling his final spending plan before the 2012 election today. and you know what, it s mot even delivered to capitol hill and the gop is already on it. what are they going to say about it and how do we know this will be the preview of the general election campaign? and lin han sanity. look at this guy. knicks new sensation, jeremy lin, making headlines on the other side of the globe as well. keep your eyes on that one. this is one of those sensations that just sort of came out of know where. did you know about him before they wrote about him this weekend. never heard a thing about him. i don t know a lot about basketball. i do. i couldn t believe i didn t know this guy. wait until you hear