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We have a tape of obama girl? remember this girl? >> ♪ ive got a crush on obam obama ♪ ♪ obama baby ♪ youre the best candidate >> eric: he is really loved obama in 2008. amber lee, 29-year-old, obama girl is now -- has now decided she is not voting for obama this time around. having a tough time lately. >> greg: look, it didnt help her career. i havent seen her since he is came out for obama. she was on "red eye" once. delightful girl. we have dont talk much anymore. >> dana: that would ...

boehners plan has now checked harry reeds. today those same bean counters are saying, yep, reeds numbers are wrong as well. but they also say that when its all said and done, reeds deficit cutting trumps boehners by, listen to this, more a trillion dollars. reeds plan, ten years, $2.2 trillion in net debt reduction. meantime boehners plan $850 billion. again, six days until default. so what about the white house here? no debt meetings, not today, at least not publicly on the presidents...

Paul who puts up numbers. >>governor huckabee: you can look at a 10 percent across-the-board cut and the agencies will in the die. they are not. the federal government is bloated. if you look where we were spending back in 2008 and rolled it become, roll it back to 2006, you are talking about a government that was able to get by and there is not an agency in government that has to have all it has. governments operate on the assumption they need to spend all the money in the budget not all the mo...

When the young workers are old enough to get the pay off theyve been paying into all their working lives. or, you may be older than the current retirement age to get social security. theres talk in congress of making americans wait until age 70 to get full social security benefits. likely doesnt have to worry about that if youre among those who in the next 10 or 20 years are expecting benefits. but for anyone born in the 1960s and after, get ready to wait longer because washington hasnt followed...

For heidi montag in case her career goes down the tubes. the word is she might be seeking an even bigger bust, go figure. another college study shows beautiful women can be bad for mens health. really. the study shows that the mere presence of beautiful women can really stress out some men, causing them to produce a hormone that can lead to heart disease, depression, and other problems. experts say the cure is for men to become more confident. hugh hefner has no problem around women, but his...

We arent just actuaries or bean counters, we have to be looking at what is the impact. >> greta: visionaries in some way. >> what are we visioning just cutting the deficit is it just about numbers? or what is the impact that is our decisions would have on ordinary people. it is easy to talk about slashing social security or medicare, the average older american makes $18,000 a year. >> greta: the democratic party doesnt even have a budget now from which we can work in terms to figure out what we ...

We arent just actuaries or bean counters, we have to be looking at what is the impact. >> greta: visionaries in some way. >> what are we visioning just cutting the deficit is it just about numbers? or what is the impact that is our decisions would have on ordinary people. it is easy to talk about slashing social security or medicare, the average older american makes $18,000 a year. >> greta: the democratic party doesnt even have a budget now from which we can work in terms to figure out what we ...

Counters in washington, cbo probably has a better track record than most. these forecasts are sort of almost like weather forecasts, maybe a little better, i dont want to disparage chad or anybody, but, you know, they change. and ive seen it many times in my relatively brief time in washington, where, you know, there have been these big forecasts about some bill like the medicare prescription drug bill from 2003 its going to cost "x" dollars and few years later you find the costs have exploded, ...

How many more pages do you have to read? >> quite a few. im going as fast as i can. >> neil: i think you lost your fastball. get cracking. you have 12 minutes. >> okay. >> neil: im disappointed. im a little disappointed. you have time to redeem yourself. back to the homework. racing through this. i have to say, hes letting me down, im sure hes letting you down. in the meantime, cbo or cbo? boy, oh, boy. the bean counters are getting burned out. can we really rely on their numbers? boss:hey, glad...

Effectiveness research. this is great. this is where panelists get together and theyll have experience in a wide variety of areas, including economics. economics? wait a minute. i thought the problem with healthcare in america it was all about money and we werent going to have bean counters anymore. right. this bean counter no longer will be with your insurance company. this one will be a benevolent grant-writing bean counter from washington. youll be powerless over this guy. you cant leave his ...