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Oh, yeah, they are being as obstinate? i have told you over and over again, we had at first 40 billion given in by the obama administration, got no credit for t then 4 billion and then 6 billion and then 20 billion and then another 3 billion. and then republicans havent moved at all. who how can it possibly be even? there is a second answer to that. let me give you some perspective, democrats appear to be in much worse shape than they were leading up to the last government shut down in 1995. bac...

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Otherwise, how do people know? and it turns out, look at the polls they dont know. they are like, i dont know who is at fault. thats crazy. somebodys got to change that dynamic and that somebody is the president. all right. now, joining me is davider is rota it, a syndicated columnist and author of the book "back to our future," also with us, ryan grimm, congressional correspondent for the "huffington post." ryan, i want to start with you. i keep saying me it is crazy. boehner, give him exactly ...

Republicans, are they about to get another couple of billion dollars in concessions? lets try to figure it out. joining me now is senator tom harkin of iowa. senator harkin, is this a real line in the sand here? is that it, 33 billion, the president came out and said it or will there be more concessions on the way? >> well, i sure hope it is. you know, the -- as you pointed out, the republicans came out, wanted $100 billion in cuts. well, we wanted to try to compromise and we first compromised a...

Citizen ronald reagan recording a message against medicare proposal back in 1961. dee spite his efforts, medicare became law on july 30, 1965 with democrats overwhelmingly voting for it and republicans split just about 50/50 on t but once reagan became president, the republicans saw their chance to kill medicare again. this time, as part of the early 80s budget fights that just like now, dominated the news. >> the cost of health care increase and reagan administration proposing cuts of several b...

Down. so, thats some read meat that the tea party, then after a couple of dives that they see the ramification and then he comes back, cuts a deal with some house democrats that goes to the senate, goes the white house and then perhaps the tea party wing of his conference will give him a pass for negotiating with democrats, say, well, the guy did shut the government down, we got to give him that >> david, i want to go with you, see the president here, he comes out this is a big deal, wasnt suppo...

That wisconsin voters believe in, the vision that they have for their government, which is the exact opposite that it should work for the people. all right, now mitt romney is the latest potential 2012 candidate to pledge support to the house amendment that would cut off federal fundinging for planned parenthood. mike huckabee, tim pawlenty it, newt gingrich, michele bachmann and the rest of the gang were already on board. but romneys support is interesting. isnt this the same candidate whose wi...

Immediately after the president spoke, speaker boehner came out and gave them this reply. >> that is not acceptable to our members and we will not agree to it and we did not agree to t we are going to continue to fight for the largest cuts possible, including the policy riders that we passed in hr-1. >> of course. and sure enough, republicans came out with a new -- im gonna -- "compromise plan" involving an additional $7 billion in cuts for a grand total of $80 billion in cuts from president oba...

Class anymore and we are not going to hurt the low-income people that depend on programs like head start and other programs. >> so senator harkin, you just said no more s that real? is the president, the democrats and the senate going to stick to that and say thats it, no more, not a nickel more beyond this 33 billion? >> i believe that we have are reached the limits of all were gonna do. i can tell you i chair the appropriations subcommittee that funds things like health care and education and ...

Leave t voluntarily. "that turned out to be, of course, not true, so once again, the republicans failed and medicare survived. now, its under attack again, as part of the 2012 budget from gop congressman paul ryan. his plan would dismantle medicare and replace it with a system in which people use government vouchers to buy private insurance. >> the democrats went a different direction in health care they really believe in a government-run system and i think logic, proof, history shows you govern...