blaming it on sequester. perhaps by avoiding furloughing all of these federal employees we will be able to get the democrats and republicans across america, people who don t even have a party, because they are just americans, they ll be able to get their tour of the white house and all it will cost is one or two golf trips less. bill: jonah goldberg editor at large of national review and fox news contributor. one up? we were sort of moved from an argument about whether or not barack obama is managing things badly to whether or not he s ordering people to badly manage, right? i mean we are now looking at him, you know, with this wildlife service memo actually telling officials of the executive branch to make she s cuts as painful as possible. and while i don t think canceling self-guided tours at the white house rises to the
the department of homeland security released two thousand illegal immigrants and blamed it on all budget restraints. now live from our los angeles bureau. dominic, as i understand it, there is the possibility that thousands more could be released? absolutely. 2,000 have been release the and a possible 3,000 more to be set free according to the socialed press. the plan was uncovered in internal government documents but homeland security is quick do say it is not locked in. in a statement to the media, they said the follow: that could change based on sequester. we do not yet know what the cut-rate will be. priorities for detection are on serious criminal offenders but other individuals and those who pose a significant threat. so far, arizona, california, georgia, and texas could extend
seeing this kind of buddy movie that they are engaged in and not quite understanding what s in it for each of them. you know, they met with the president this week. they put out a statement how great it went to talk about immigration and key on sequester. senator graham is open to tax increases. a lot of republicans will talk about it. they feed off each other. isn t it because senator graham is up for election next year, i guess, right? you know, he s in a state where there are the remnants of the tea party still pretty vital. he has to move to the right and he s hitched his arms with senator mccain and they are plunging through. is that the story? he s out there talking about being open to tax increases. when mccain was up for re-election and faced a primary challenge, graham helped him and mccain has following in south carolina helping him for re-election. between now and then issue.
they re in worst shape than on election day. because there s an after effect where now they re out of power and now the house republican look divided and no one knows who the leader of the party is. i think you re going to see once you guys release the whole poelsz, there s going to be a lot of numbers that make clear the republican party has a brand problem with the general public and i think they have an issue internally within the party, which is there s lots of republicans who think the party is either too extreme or, you know, doesn t adhere to the idealogical lines enough. there s a real split within the party too. kelly, watching john boehner this morning express frustration that the senate hasn t acted on sequester and saying all the house has already acted twice. clarify things a little bit. there is no active bill passed by the house in this congress. explain. well, they did pass it twice, but it was the last congress.
but certainly graham and mccain are very big to passing immigration reform. what do we make that snoor rubio is not part of the group going to the white house? it is the interesting politics mix. rubio trying to sell immigration reform to conservative media outlets, people like rush limbaugh, folks on fox news and when you re trying to do that, you probably also can t be seen at the white house with president obama. so marco rubio had a delicate dance supporting reform. and he doesn t want to get too close to president obama. and the fact that mccain and graham are talking with the president, as well, on sequester. we know there are no meetings on tap for mcconnell or boehner. what do we make of that, mark? they don t want to see the defense cuts go in to effect. it was always thought that these looming defense cuts would be the ones that would force republicans to the negotiating table. that s true for folks like john mccain and lindsay graham but