Here. There was forecast for rain all day. For the most part, sergio romo will get loose. The rain has stayed away. This is as hard as its rained all night. One on, nobody out. A ball up and in to schumaker. His first atbat. Taking over at second base in the bottom of the eighth. Another lefty, jay, on deck. 20. Tim lopez appears to have no problems because of the wet weather. All of a sudden hes inside to lefthanders, outside to righthanders. Joe theres the 20. Theres a strike. 21. Jammed is schumaker. Its a foul ball. Two balls, two strikes. The 22 pitch. To the second baseman, scutaro, and the only out at second. One away. And the batter will be jon jay. After jay you have the switchhitting beltran and then righthanded batters coming up. The rain lightens up a bit. Romo continues to get loose. Lopez struck out tony cruz to end the eighth. Allowed a walk and get the forceout at second here in the ninth. Strike 1. Tim a reporter asked sergio romo what it would be like to see his first
Greatly improved, the iron dome successfully intercepting hundreds of in coming rockets, but, israel is facing a better armed hamas, that has the backing of a new islamist government in egypt. This all presenting a serious challenge for both the United States, and the obama administration. And, new obstacles in creating a genuine israelipalestinian peace process. Well take all of that up here tonight, with admiral james lyons, retired commander of the u. S. Pacific fleet and also, president obama wants more in the 1. 5 trillion in tax hikes, but he has no plan or announced cuts in spending, why those tax hikes dont add up to anything meaningful and well talk with the ceo of cke restaurants, andy puzder and says, tax rates will stifle Economic Growth and our favorite doctors are here, to psychoanalyze the scandal that brought down the head of the cia. We are delighted to be joined, now, by the admiral james lyons, retired commander of the u. S. Pacific fleet. It is always good to have y
Och unions muscling their way in. Rich edson on unions trying to block spending cuts and the fiscal cliff deal while making sure the rich pay more. Jeff flock with union back protests at Walmart Stores and diana on the dirty little secret those unions are not changing walmart workers. First to rich and some in washington, d. C. How unions trying to persuade democrats to avoid spending cuts . With a significant lobbying effort on capitol hill and a new Advertising Campaign targeted at democratic and republican lawmakers in pennsylvania, virginia and missouri. Thbasic message is dont touch entitlements in the fiscal cliff tops were having on capitol hill. Honesty and one of the union says elected officials from both parties need to listen to the will of the voters and focus on rebuilding the middle class and strengthening our economby investing in jobs, not cu. As for the effectiveness of this campaign one conservative says this type of pressure from unions is nothing new. The fact that
Along with jim la camp and steve murphy, welcome to everybody. Jim, growing Union Clashes with job creators, growing concerns about jobs . Absolutely. Look, every time you make it harder for an employer to hire somebody theyre going to hire less people. Were already seeing it in the jobs numbers. Look, obamacare has already cost a tremendous amount of jobs and since the president was reelected and it became apparent that obamacare was coming back in, weve seen the layoffs accelerate and now the unions are trying to kick businesses at a time when bunesses are hting and at a time when theyre uncertain about labor costs and this is going to take fulltime jobs to parttime jobs, and its going to mean the closing of plants, and factories and already met one right here, with the hostess twinky factory. Tobin that was 18,000 jobs, just forget about it, you look at the auto workers, the steel industry, airlines, you go down the list and unions fits for pensions and benefits, not just pay, have
Of course, look, Business Investment was already down last quarter over 1 , and the word uncertainty just pervades the air and its business, its consumer, how about philanthropic organizations dont no what kind of writeoffs for charity and the worst the outcome is probably going to be more, and taxes are going to go up and of course there will be no spending cuts. And ben, it does sound ominous, even if youre not someone who reads the wall street journal, the fiscal cliff, fiscal cliff, it could be the i dont know intimidation factor, it could actually be worse than going over the cliff. I think thats a brilliant point, charles. If we went over the cliff for a few months the impact would not be enormous, and uncertainty is a bad word and fear is a really, really bad words and these are the words that govern the Economy Today and imperative that democrats put their heart and soul into a compromise. Absolutely imperative. Dagen, what do you think about this . I think you cannot dismiss t