afghanistan a year ago by the holdup by holding up this withdrawal? i m chris matthews. welcome to the show. with us today, the huffington post, howard fineman, the bbc s katty kay, nbc s norah o donnell. and time magazine s joe kleine. first up, the president s tax cuts deal. may turn out to be a textbook turn of the corner for a president sorely in need of one. he s got a very big advantage for 2011, a new abc news- washington post poll shows americans favor obama to make progress on the big issues facing the country. more than they favor republicans to do it. but he still needs working partners. another new poll, this one from nbc, shows the democrats out there are eager for democrats here in washington to help the president. 6 3% of democrats polled say they support more deals with republicans, despite those house democrats voting against the tax cuts deal. but just 47% of republicans tantwheir leaders to keep compromising with obama. howard, it s so interesting. the d
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holdup by holding up this withdrawal? i m chris matthews. welcome to the show. with us today, the huffington post, howard fineman, the bbc s katty kay, nbc s norah o donnell. and time magazine s joe kleine. first up, the president s tax cuts deal. may turn out to be a textbook turn of the corner for a president sorely in need of one. he s got a very big advantage for 2011, a new abc news- washington post poll shows americans favor obama to make progress on the big issues facing the country. more than they favor republicans to do it. but he still needs working partners. another new poll, this one from nbc, shows the democrats out there are eager for democrats here in washington to help the president. 6 3% of democrats polled say they support more deals with republicans, despite those house democrats voting against the tax cuts deal. but just 47% of republicans tantwheir leaders to keep compromising with obama. howard, it s so interesting. the democrats come out of the elect
losers. i think what the speaker did was remarkable in terms of holding the conference together and moving forward very positively in the kinds of votes that will be able to get in the senate on obama care, up or down and on planned parenthood, up or down. on changing the dynamic, i m truly decreasing the amount of spending and then trillions of dollars of spending cuts that we ll see with our 2012 budget coming forward this week. we re going to have a very exciting week, a week that sets things right, i think, in terms of the direction of the country. remarkable challenges that we have. but i think we re beginning to move things in the right direction. now, what do you say to people like congresswoman karen bass on with chuck todd earlier today, a former top legislator from california. here is herรง objections to pau ryan s approach on the block grants for medicaid. let s watch. if it was a block grant, let s say it is $100, okay, that goes to the states, or a million dollars, th