Page 195 - Debating News Today

President now support, the republicans used to support and they have run from. are there issues like that that the president has on his plate right now that would be better for him to not put his imprimatur on by putting it in this speech? >> no, i think the president is -- i think the inauguration showed that. the election showed that the president needs to step forward, and its his agenda we should be talking about and debating. it doesnt mean the house and the senate obviously adopt everythin...

Says yes, i want that too, they change their mind and they run from them. im thinking about things like cap and trade and individual mandate and health reform, even some elements of immigration reform that democrats and the president now support, the republicans used to support and they have run from. are there issues like that that the president has on his plate right now that would be better for him to not put his imprimatur on by putting it in this speech? >> no, i think the president is -- i...

To have a smaller class. and thats easy to measure. no debating on whether the number of kids in the class is an accurate measure of how many kids are in the class. do you think thats important and how does the relate to the way schools are financed? >> class size actually matter as lot less than teacher quality. theres been studies done showing what is the impact of having a high quality teacher in the classroom versus reducing the class size from 28 to 26 kids, et cetera. and it shows your inv...

Funds plus this offshore money does not go back to congress -- to the congressional dole again. while theyre debating, as i said, the fiscal cliff and debt ceiling, that does not address this vast area of the impact of foreclosed homes. because when you foreclose 100,000 homes in chicago and detroit and people leave, then the local cleaners, the local laundry, the local servicer, the foreclosures drove poverty. the banks got built out. but the people who got drove out are living in poverty and s...

Liberal. >> you say it alime. >> we are talking about it with facebook, because the governors association pushed around a private business owner, this is what we see in the government, we have an administration run by democrats, tries to tell them what health care to buy and how much taxes they should spend and how much they should keep and are bullying business owners and private citizens and this is a perfect example of that. it is what liberalism is based on. >> you say the -- the number of t...

Speaker john boehner has sort of abandoned this idea to increase the debt ceiling and tie it to dollar to dollar spending cuts. so from their perspective that represents some movement. i have been talking to my republican sources who say they feel confident that this plan to increase the debt ceiling and then to also sort of force congress hand on the budget in three months is something that could get through both houses. well have to see. i expect that all of this debating will sort of be on pa...

Hepatitis. those exposures are linked to the accidental reuse of insulin pens. >> they obviously changed the needles each time, but they would put -- should have been putting a patients name on the cartridge so it would never be used with someone else. >> 570 patients involved are still alive. the v.a. is offering free blood tests to rule out infections. staff members at the hospital are being trained now how to properly use those insulin pens. today marks one month since the massacre at sandy...

Villaraigosa, always good to have you on the program. >> thank you. vice president biden does meet today with house members to talk about stopping gun violence. today does mark the one-month anniversary of the newtown shooting. the town is debating what to do with sandy hook elementary school. more than 200 residents went to a meeting yesterday about whether to tear it down or to reopen sandy hook. and a lot of folks are divided. >> i dont believe any kid should ever have to go back there and ...

Debating. joining me now is host of "the cycle, msnbc and abbey huntsman. thank you boet for your time. >> what about those who say obama isnt ready? reagan should go there first. im not ready to put reagan on mount rushmore at all. were talking figuratively, right? >> youre on politics nation. we have chizles and hammers here. >> okay. all right. >> reagan or obama? >> ill put up reagan, you can put up obama. well chisel together. >> i think he had a very strong first term, saving detroit, endi...

It has everyone talking and debating. joining me now is host of "the cycle, msnbc and abbey huntsman. thank you boet for your time. >> what about those who say obama isnt ready? reagan should go there first. im not ready to put reagan on mount rushmore at all. were talking figuratively, right? >> youre on politics nation. we have chizles and hammers here. >> okay. all right. >> reagan or obama? >> ill put up reagan, you can put up obama. well chisel together. >> i think he had a very strong firs...