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Who she so admires. >> one of the things her camp is saying that that its not. its not a ripoff. its not supposed to be a ripoff. >> what lady gaga does is representative of madonna. >> a little creative license. >> madonna was the first. she was the original. >> i think theyre playing with all of us a little bit. >> just imagine all of the press shes getting. were all talking about all this. its not bad for themselves. >> fun to watch. thanks so much, lisa. president obama releases his budget...

About saving entitlement programs and being more aggressive on pentagon cuts? >> i think you have to look at where we are over the next ten years. when we came into office, the deficit was climbing to over 10% of the economy. we have a plan that would bring it down to 3%. that is the most rapid reduction in the deficit in history. it is what we have to do to be able to say were paying our bills and not adding the the debt. thats the first step -- >> you guys have added to the debt tremendously o...

Talked about health care, raising taxes on the wealthy. >> jobs. >> spending programs. 4. >> yep and he also -- >> it was not a conservative speech. >> it was not. he also said to the republicans, i get the deficit but well have to do this together. one of the things that is important for democrats to hear, were not going to give tax breaks to a million dollars a year while were cutting things like social security. that was important. he said what he had to say. said it in a bipartisan way and t...

Whether he will in fact become less of a lefty i think remains to be seen. >> chris: mara, what is the apes? >> i think he has become less of a lefty. i dont think there is any doubt about that. he will not be presenting any new big spending programs. targeted small investments in things like education infrastructure and science and technology and research and he will bear the republicans to fight him on those grounds as opposed to big abstract calls for lower spending that is a debate where the...

Whether he will in fact become less of a lefty i think remains to be seen. >> chris: mara, what is the apes? >> i think he has become less of a lefty. i dont think there is any doubt about that. he will not be presenting any new big spending programs. targeted small investments in things like education infrastructure and science and technology and research and he will bear the republicans to fight him on those grounds as opposed to big abstract calls for lower spending that is a debate where the...

Despite the stimulus and other administration spending programs. julie kirtz, live in washington with the latest. good morning, julie. what do you expect we can hear from the president on the economy this week. >> as you said the economy is the central issue of the midterms and the president, hits the road with the series of the economic events including trips to swing states, part of the big pre-election push to revive the economy, as well as in november and hell be in milwaukee on monday and c...

Not have and she had an opportunity to end the tarp program and put the dollars to settle our national debt which, again, she did not do, and the number one issue we have been coming back to in south dakota is she votes for nancy pelosi and gives her a position of power and the people in south dakota do not aproven of her and her agenda so we have had discussions throughout the campaign and we have talked about a lot of those things and when you give someone that kind of power to set the agenda ...

Bad. bill mentioned the small business numbers which are down 159,000 inside the job numbers that came out this week. and at the same time the white house seems unwilling, the president seems unwilling to look at all this evidence and change source. instead there is continuing massive new spending programs and the house is coming back into session this week to vote for $26 billion more. and while this is all going on the president is spending his time out there bashing george bush. it occurs tha...

Got these numbers that are very bad. bill mentioned the small business numbers which are down 159,000 inside the job numbers that came out this week. and at the same time the white house seems unwilling, the president seems unwilling to look at all this evidence and change source. instead there is continuing massive new spending programs and the house is coming back into session this week to vote for $26 billion more. and while this is all going on the president is spending his time out there ba...

Ton of pressure right now. so yes, my congresswoman could lose with her own -- >> i might point out that mr. greenspans successor, ben bernanke not a fan of rising taxes on this environment on anyone. thats neither here nor there. >> and its interesting, neil, because there is consensus right now to not let the cuts expire for almost everybody. the iesh you here is the top 2% of wage earners and by the way, i know charles is going to say this. this just crushes small business. thats not really t...