thanksgiving dinner? i read. the best guests on the planet. we go to i have thanksgiving dinner at my brother s house. we have desert and coffee and all of that at my wife s brothers house. then i fall asleep. i don t like any of the food. i do like it. not sauerkraut. jesse, get you confused all the time. i avoid doing dishes and i keep drinking and watch football. there you go. sounds like a great guy to have around. he s yeah, real team player. i i help with the dishes always. i clean up and drop the leftovers. then i love to watch football and also probably have a glass of wine. that s nice. what i do, i wait for somebody to pick me up. the police are nice about it. your unicorn sweater.
the gas line at the brother s house, tom perriello put out a statement saying how dismayed he was in talking about the political climate that s given rise to this sort of threats. the national republican committee responded by putting out a statement attacking him and saying the congressman wasn t a victim. his constituents were the real victims because his policies were so awful. now, there s been an attack in virginia. he s saying, this is not okay. we have to say this is not okay. this is not a time for scoring political points. i think that shows not only dignity, but a real maturity on the part of the congressman. i think across the nation right now, everybody realizes people need to take a deep breath and everybody in the position of leadership who could affect this needs to take steps to lower the temperature. and for those who say that this is not frightening and is
time in the past year to voice your concerns? you ve got to remember, this bill, the guts of this bill, the main part of the big bill that was just signed yesterday arrived on a saturday afternoon. we were given three days to debate it in the senate. no amendments were allowed. then we were forced to vote on it on christmas eve. then it went over to the house where no amendments were allowed. none. and it was voted on on a party line vote. the only bipartisan nature of the bill was that there was bipartisan opposition. so of course, speaker pelosi has said she incorporated republican amendments in the body of the bill. yes, andrea. that s why all the republicans opposed it. there were maybe other reasons why all the republicans opposed it. the politics of the house are another whole animal over there. the bill as it has now come to you, the fix-it bill, does take out some things that y all wanted to see taken out. some of the perks and some of the cornhusker deal and some of
senator judd gregg was standing there with senator cornyn. and with, of course, the republican leader, mitch mcconnell. republicans offering dozens of amendments to the so-called fix-it bill. democrats insist they should just give up the fight. senator gregg now joins us. they shouldn t be voted on not because they don t make sense, but because, get rid of them. they re the opposition. why have an opposition party? you know, i mean, maybe we should just go to a cuban system. that seems to be the attitude of the other side of the aisle. the american people are an unfortunate inconvenience. the fact that they ve elected a republican membership to this senate and to the house, they re an unfortunate inconvenience that should be ignored. senator gregg, we don t want you to feel ignored. here you are with us now. thank you, andrea. thank you very much. enjoyed your speech today. looked like you were having a good time, too. but there is a serious purpose to your sarcasm. do you real
medicare savings should go to medicare and to making that more solvent. something they said that should happen. it doesn t happen in the bill. another amendment says that if premiums go up for small businesses, and the president said premiums would not go up, then you won t institute the policies. another amendment says if taxes go up for people who earn less than $200,000, then those taxes won t go into place. those are all proposals which the president respected were going to happen which were not in these bills, which we re asking for amendments on. yet they re going to be voted down on a party line vote. because we re, as i said, an unnecessary inconvenience. offering amendments shouldn t be part of the parliamentary process or the constitutional process, i guess, the way the democrats want to run it these days. let me ask you about the politics of this. because there has been some sense that the republican party is not only encouraging the tea party, you saw some of the house me