neil: senator, thank you very much for joining us. jim dimint in washington. in the meantime, is a-rod about to get a-ream. i want you to meet a former big league pitcher who says what s the big deal about plug there are performance-enhancing drugs. don t ban them, promote them. forget about banning alex rodriguez and is it legal? these ladies are ready to play ball and answer that after this. weigh you down?
aei a conservative think tank or not? it is, but does not mean people have widely varying views. heritage it s not, especially with jim dimint going over there, i don t think anything will compare to heritage. the bigger issue, tom, that you believe we in the media have gotten it wrong. there is this back and forth. i guess what i would argue is, if, if a party believes what they re saying and they believe, if they get the perfect set of circumstances, then their fact, they believe will get there. how do you balance that one? you really have to go to the substance of what they re saying. we both acknowledge that it s hard for reporters whose
in the wake of the standard and poor s decision. they agreed to a way forward the credit rating agency said it didn t go far enough to stabilize the debt situation. timothy geithner s the treasury secretary is squarely in the cross hairs. republican senator jim dimint. the president should demand secretary geithner resign and replace him with someone who will help washington focus on defensing the budget. - balancing the budget. and it will be the plan senator harry reid said leaders should appoint members that will approach the committee s worth with an open
the white house is blaming democrats in congress for how bad the president s tax cut deal is. the white house also seems to be having trouble winning support from the deal for democrats in congress. this is the new york times runs the numbers. from the deal and identifies one group and only one whose tax wills actually go up under the plan. any family making less than $40,000 a year, $40,000 a year being considerably less than what the rich will get from these tax cuts. the president it turns out progressors are finding morale lies in this fight that the president might actually listen to. the tea party. senator bernie sanders, a socialist, and our guest in just a moment, was the first to say he would block a vote on these cuts in the senate. who followed in his footsteps? tea party mate patron saint jim dimint. he vowed to fillbuster against it and vote against it. why? not because any of the package
from the deal for democrats in congress. this is the new york times runs the numbers. from the deal and identifies one group and only one whose tax wills actually go up under the plan. any family making less than $40,000 a year, $40,000 a year being considerably less than what the rich will get from these tax cuts. the president it turns out progressors are finding morale lies in this fight that the president might actually listen to. the tea party. senator bernie sanders, a socialist, and our guest in just a moment, was the first to say he would block a vote on these cuts in the senate. who followed in his footsteps? tea party patron saint jim dimint. he vowed to fill buttser against it and vote against it. why? not because any of the package is paid for, but because it contains 13 months of extended unemployment, insurance the single most stimulative tool the government has. most of us who ran this last election said we were not going