way up the line. manufacturers don t have the stores to sell to. so jobs are lost all through the economy. the program costs about $25 billion a year. republicans oppose an extension of it in the bipartisan budget agreement unless the cost was offset elsewhere. by all accounts syria is most likely not going to make its tuesday deadline to give up its chemical weapons cache. al assad s government reportedly has not yet begun moving them and u.n. officials say the deteriorating security condition in the country is complicating things. syria agreed to hand over about 40% of its stockpile by the end of this year and the rest of it by the end of 2014. meanwhile, a journalism watchdog reports 70 journalists were killed on the job in 2013. 29 of them in syria alone. it continues to be troubled waters for a russian research ship stuck in layers of ice in antarctica. an australian icebreaker racing
it s about the political problems of the democratic party. people across the united states don t trust one thing the president says now. he told them if you like your health insurance plan you can keep it. the speech he gave today won t allow one american confidence to keep their plan. he told insurance companies you must send out another letter saying your health insurance policy isn t very good. the government has health insurance policies, why don t you look at theirs? if i m an insurance company , just because the president does a press conference i m supposed to change what i do because of a press conference? wait a minute. the president needs to understand congress needs to pass laws.
it s about the political problems of the democratic party. people across the united states don t trust one thing the president says now. he told them if you like your health insurance plan you can keep it. the speech he gave today won t allow one american confidence to keep their plan. he told insurance companies you must send out another letter saying your health insurance policy isn t very good. the government has health insurance policies, why don t you look at theirs? if i m an insurance company , just because the president does a press conference i m supposed to change what i do because of a press conference? wait a minute. the president needs to understand congress needs to pass laws.
the new york post s front page calling this a disaster. aren t they undermining the entirety of the aca? well, i think it s difficult to argue on one hand, has democrats do, that you want people to move into more comprehensive policies that will be there for them if they get sick and then on the other hand to be offering these proposals that keep people in subprime policies that they have argued all along, democrats have, don t work. so they re trying to fix a problem that can t really be fixed. if the goal of the entire law is to move people towards comprehensive policy, and that s why they re running into these problems. it s a political issue that they re trying to solve, but the policy here really isn t very good. so then this morning we have former vermont governor howard dean telling morning joe about a plan that would help fix the situation, his idea anyway. take a look.
white house don t think this last few weeks would have gone as smoothly as they would have liked. the president hasn t come across in the way even his own advisers would like him to be received. his numbers on foreign policy isn t very good. having said that they feel like this is giving them an opening. at the moment they can argue this threat of force led to diplomatic in the first place. doesn t work out go, back to congress, if they do go back to congress, look, we gave it every effort. you saw we went the extra mile, so therefore stand with us now. whether that sells on capitol hill is a different question. i don t know they have a full-on plan b sort of in mind at the moment. they are sort of playing this day by day. part of that is the awkwardness of having to make the case for war at the same time you re trying to gin up enthusiasm for the diplomatic process, which is a peaceful