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Seconds later. he asked the question again, you hear people, no, no hawaii! >> sean: what do you think? >> i think the left is spinning in circles now. theres a frenzy about what trump is bringing up because it is the third rail of obama you cant talk about the birth certificate. you cant talk about his college transcripts or what happened when he was out of college. >> sean: you cant talk about bill ayers. that he knew louis farrakhan his wife was on the magazine with mrs. farrakhan. >> trump h...

>> well, i think to a certain degree it is, yeah. i think they are going to want to engage appropriately on this subject. you know, this third rail politics mindset only allows us to kick the can further down the road to whistle past the grave stop and all of those wonderful sayings and not deal with the problem. if paul ryan and the leadership are decided to say, look, were going to stake the elections on this, were going to stake the countrys future to get this problem saved now, i think its w...

Seconds later. he asked the question again, you hear people, no, no hawaii! >> sean: what do you think? >> i think the left is spinning in circles now. theres a frenzy about what trump is bringing up because it is the third rail of obama you cant talk about the birth certificate. you cant talk about his college transcripts or what happened when he was out of college. >> sean: you cant talk about bill ayers. that he knew louis farrakhan his wife was on the magazine with mrs. farrakhan. >> trump h...

With the past two big issues being decided, the tax cut issue and the budget deal expected to pass today, if not today, but tomorrow and you have something down the road, 26 years away and there are pressing matters today. was he right not to address it? >> no, the g.o.p. plan, paul ryan, youll have him on the show, this is forward looking. why do we always have to put out a fire and figure out why were a trillion dollars in the hole before we try and fix it. hob now, ryan and the g.o.p.s senato...

Republicans who vote for it do so, some say, at their own politic political peril. republicans that ive spoke to say the terrain has shifted. we have voters that understand there has to be changes in medicare and social security. its no longer the third rail of american politics. if you touch it, you dont necessarily perish. that remains to be seen. it really does. >> you mentioned younger voters and contingency that perhaps keeps some politicians up at night, the independent voters. as we look ...

Ttd# 1-800-345-2550 ttd# 1-800-345-2550 ttd# 1-800-345-2550 and talk to chuck about ttd# 1-800-345-2550 rolling over that old 401k. welcome back to the ed show and thanks for watching. the third rail. politicians always want to talk about that, the third rail of the american politics. last decade it was social security. we have to do something. these days its medicare and medicaid. we cant do that for old folks. they got to pay their own way. but there is one area of government spending that i...

Financial insolvency of the country. a 14 trillion dollar debt is something we can sustain. our parties are worried. they are going to have to decide on the debt ceiling and you are right, they are missing the big picture here. it is kind of a scary thing. >> the reason they are missing that big picture is to go after the entitlements, where the rubber hits the road. social security has long been a third rail of american politics. we are not talking about the military. they are not extravagantly...

Entitleme entitlements, broadly speaking, will protect social security, medicaid, med wear. a lot of folks who benefit from those programs vote for democrats. which is why they will staunchly defend them. i think paul ryan and the president are making the same argument, which is we have to be adults here, there are hard decisions that have to be made. the problem is, paul ryan puts out plans that probably wont see the light of day, then you have the president, who is trying to govern, and he is ...

That may change. >> im curious if listeners are having reaction to the story line that speaker boehner is in a box, he says by the democrats but others say hes been placed in the box by new members of the party and the tea party caucus, who we heard with senator mcdermotit, he believes theyre naive but nonetheless demanding more cuts in spending. >> this is a large part of the debate that im hearing today, and i think is playing itself out across the country, those recommendations offered by con...

Controlled senate, he says the white house is quote, punting on the toughest budget issues facing the country and the senate is doing nothing to pass the budget, even as we head for a possible government shutdown again. steve centanni is live in washington and coming tonight to democrats who argue the republicans plan is nothing knew. >> harris, congressman ryan proposing not only huge cuts, but grabbing on the perilous third rail of american politics, entitlement like medicare, medicaid, social...