be overhauled. didn t get too specific there. perry s proposal would cut congressional salaries in half, end lifetime appointments for supreme court justices and other judges, and make capitol hill a part-time citizen congress sending lawmakers home to live inside their district. those are specifics of what he was talking about when he says they need to overhaul the place. it s important to note any overhaul of congress or the judiciary would have to be approved by congress and that the president could not make those changes on his own. on to herman cain, he s still on the defensive after getting hung up on a libya question during an interview on monday. speaking to reporters yesterday, mr. cain offered his explanation about just what happened in that conversation with the milwaukee journal sentinel. being in a room where you re being asked question after question on different topic after different topic, i paused. i don t understand why that pause created so much
president obama has taken and wants to continue to take our country. and ultimately, that s what the elections need to be about. and that s a choice. i hope we ll get that choice in 2012. and as a republican, i ll do everything i can to help that happen. mika, just to pick up on what mika is saying. when you watch herman cain and you watch the libya question just you are the new voice of the party. you can t be proud of that. it s a process, it s a process. that is the guy that is leading in the polls. and he clearly does not have a command of the issues. you can t be proud of your party when that is the front and center guy. i wasn t there. er know he said he was tired. i ll give him the benefit of the doubt with regard to the circumstances that led to that answer. but all of our candidates have to answers on these issues. and i m confident by the time we get to january, february, march, and april, that we re going to
this country. that s something we can agree on. i think the lack of confidence in congress, the lack of confidence in the american people we can get things done by working together is one of the big drags in our economy. we put this bill forward as a way to provide an answer to that concern. mike, go ahead. senator coons, i don t want you to have a herman cain moment now and pause for about 15 seconds in order to answer this question. but surprise us. give us three or four examples within the tax code, reforming the tax code that you think republicans and democrats could agree on that would increase, widen the revenue stream? well, the one i have particularly championed included in this bill that should gain wide support is to reform, for example, the r & d tax credit. there s a research and development tax credit that has been allowed to expire and been extended, i think, 16 times. we are weeks away from it expiring. and certainty about the availability of a tax benefit is one o
disclose how big diligence this waterboarding contract are before you answer. they represent 17% of our fourth quarter revenues. we have seen an up tick over the past five years. because of the economy? i have no idea. okay. just made up a made all of the crap up. i think it is time we stop slandering diligence, frank. let s get on with the question. i m sure you have. is it effective? yes it is effective. it is effective and unfortunately michele bachmann comes out and she makes a statement about waterboarding. based on, i hate to say this, but there is no understanding on what the hell we are talking about here. however, i would also say that obama on his part, he also does president understand what the hell he is talking about. enough of this. it is moot. they have taken it off the table. they have taken it out of the bag. they showed every hostile out
he was looking at this bottle of water. don t you think he had the answers written on the bottle of water? it was such an embarassing moment. once you get to that point on the stage and run for president of the united states which last i checked was still the most powerful country in the world, you should be able to feel the question as simple as that. there was an excuse that he was doing it on four hours of sleep. andy said that, but i will take the credit. what is that shirt? what is that? i don t think i could elaborate more than that. simple question, simple answer. do you think bill, what can you do on four hours or sleep or less. name one thing. this show. i have been doing it for five years. four hours sleep in are you cuding kidding me?