Host that breakthrough year, is something that took leisa the president s press conference. It was highlighted in the paper today. Here is president obama yesterday talking about the economy and his 2014 being a breakthrough year. Up and whathat all it means is we head into next year with an economy that is stronger than it was when we started the year. More americans are finding work ad experiencing the pride of paycheck. We are positioned for new growth and new jobs and i firmly believe that 2014 can be a breakthrough year for america. Outlined in detail earlier this month we know there is a lot more we are going to have to do to restore opportunity and brought based progress for everyone. It is a good start that earlier this week for the first time in years both parties in both houses of congress came together to pass a budget. That unwinds some of the damaging sequester cuts that created headwinds for our economy. It clears the path for businesses and for investments that we need to strengthen our middle class like education and scientific research. It means that the American People wont be exposed to the threat of another reckless shutdown every few months. That is a good thing. Or disagree with the president s concept of 2014 being a breakthrough year when it comes to the economy. You may want to comment on that or other things when it comes to the new year. Again, you can send us tweets, emails or comment on facebook. The New York Times headline typically the best chance for wallace he achievements for lameduck status politico, their headline is that the president signs off on 2013. Say this,cal writers in part. He will need to pull off quite the trick him up produce enough successful collaboration with republicans to Show Congress hasnt completely clipped him. Again, 2014 being a breakthrough year. Taking the president s words and getting your thoughts on how you think that might happen. I picture on the front page of the New York Times this morning. Goodbye tony 13 and low. Ofhlights the fax yesterdays press conference and talks about the president s vacation which starts today. He landed and arrived safely according to officials for long extended vacation in hawaii. Also this morning in the paper is a lot of talk about the nsa, issues we will take up on this. Rogram as well later he spoke considerably about it yesterday at his press conference. One of the things that came out of it according to this the headline, nsat programs will be reined in. Lets take our first call. This is Lauren Ingrid not a hills, california. In granadalawrence hills, california. My thoughts are that i wanted to hear more of a plan of how he is going to achieve a breakthrough. It seems like the headline in politico. Hoping that we have a good year whether youre republican, democrat, independent or whatever. We have been in this situation economically since 2008 and it has been rough. We need a breakthrough on that economy. As far as arrests rest of the country is concerned, we are still going slow, people are still out of work. I hope we have a break. Yes. Host lawrence, could you tell me more about the specifics you want to hear . Economy,s far as the since the president has been in office we know his plan has been spendmulate growth and more money on the government area, but that is not doing it. He economy is not doing much host thats lawrence. This is carl in green valley, arizona. Republican line. Thanks for cspan. I watch all the time. Im just going to make a comment as food for thought. See, the only way that i based on the facts and what has happened since 2008, is that hopefully the republicans can reacquire the senate majority, get rid of harry reid, nancy losey and the rest of them and make them insignificant and , articlespeach and it of impeachment against this president. This is the most this honest, underhanded, scandal ridden failure of a presidency in the history of the United States. Politics is a dirty business, but this crosses the line and blows it clear out of the water. This has got to happen and get this country back on track to prosperity and honesty. You think it realistically could happen, though . It will never happen if the republicans, and im im a tea party guy. Proud to be. Is the only way. It is not going to happen with harry reid running interference very at eric holder is running interference for this guy in the justice department. Harry reid is running interference in the senate. Host senator reid was in the hospital being treated for exhaustion. A treat from his office says that senator reed was diagnosed as exhausted. That was released by the senators office. Bernie from kettle falls, washington on our independent line. The president saying 2014 could be a breakthrough year, what do you think . Caller i think it will be, too. Five years a plane straight people being it is president obama stern. They try and do nothing president is calling the republicans a donothing congress. [indiscernible] theres more revenue coming in because more people are working. And ands are going up theyre getting more incoming. The debt has been cut down. Host is anything specific for 2014 that you think he can do to spur the economy further . Caller i think he is stepping every thing up right now. The ball is growing. He is finally broken away from all the tethers that were holding him back. I think he is now getting is head start for obamacare. He is getting the chance. It took a while for them to get going, to. I believe what they call oncee or romney care it takes effect in two or three years it is going to work right. Host one of the Economic Indicators was a gross mistake rather heard 4. 1 expansion rate according to economists and reported in usa today. That he up next from iowa on the republican line. Caller i know of only two people that have been hired for a good job. Whoas a teacher in spain graduated from the university of iowa and one is working for the government in africa. These are fulltime jobs with good benefits. Otherwise the only jobs that i know that the people i know have been hired for our parttime jobs or as independent contractors. I am scared. Iis economy is not good and live in a state where unemployment is supposed to be one of the best in the country and i can see the quality of the jobs that people are getting. It is not good. When it comes to the idea of a breakthrough year caller caller yeah, breakthrough the and from detroit. The cut line. I think his words were very encouraging and motivating. A lot of the people are still suffering regarding employment, seeking employment, i really believe that once they realize that the republicans are the ones who are holding the president back from getting bills would not properly the country does not understand that is not the president who makes the laws primarily. And congress is primarily republican. They have to understand to get out and vote and get rid of the republicans. Theyre the ones who are holding the americans from going forward. Host do think the president has at selling anb agenda . Caller yes, i do. The problem is that we need more democrats. We need a lot more motivated democrats out there selling that ticket. Wordsthe president s talking about the economy yesterday. You can talk about the economy as well or other things and comes to politics in 2014. The lines are divided by political party. 585 38014 republicans it was during a press conference. If he havent seen the whole thing you can see it on a Video Library. The president was asked i aps worstpace if 2013 was the year of his presidency. Heres his response. Julie, i guess what im saying is if youre measuring this by polls, my poles of got up and down a lot. Through the course of my career. Pulling interested in it would not have run for president. I was polling at 70 when i was in the u. S. Senate. This job to deliver for the American People and i knew i will continue to know that there are going to be ups and downs. You are right, the healthcare website problems were sort of great frustration. In the last press conference i adequately discussed my frustrations on those. I now have ame couple million people, maybe more, who are going to have health care on january 1. That is a big deal. That is why i ran for this office. As long as i have got an opportunity every single day to make sure that in ways large and small im creating greater opportunity for people, more kids are able to go to school and get the education they need, more families are able to stabilize their finances, the Housing Market is continuing to to improve, wages are inching up a little bit, if those things are happening, ill ive said before i have run my last political race, so at this point my goal every single day is to make sure that i can look back and say we are delivering something. Not everything, because this is a long haul. It comes to the Affordable Care act, House Majority leader eric cantor bring out a statement yesterday ofut the cancellation individual mandate for the plans canceled under obamacare. He quotes the majority the majority leader quotes the president talking about the economy. Even top and wider topics if you want to read walter, washington, dc, independent line. Good morning and happy holiday to your entire audience and to america and the world. I enjoyed his final press conference. He did allow a lot of questions to come his way and he answered them honestly. Im frustrated with people who call him a liar or a deceiver, whatever they want to call him is wrong. He has reached out. Year has beens that bad for him. It has been ridiculous at the lady said from detroit. The obstructed everything. If president obama mentions it, they are against it here it is not a worst year for him it is the worst year for them because they result in doing nothing. Bill on twitter says 2014 will be better. Your thoughts on twitter as well as the phone lines this morning. Michael is on a republican line hes from lee acres, florida. I take issue, we have 5. 9 million plus and the number keeps climbing. People are losing their health care coverage. Approaching four dollars a gallon, most jobs being. Reated our parttime jobs there are millions more americans on food stamps. I dont call that a breakthrough, called a breakdown. Host what would make a breakthrough in your opinion . What would have to change . Hard for me to believe this president. We have to get more things done at the state level. Me to say we would have to do an end run around this president. Host what you mean by that . State do things through and local governments. Wait until the next election. That is pretty much all we can do. Norcross,is from georgia on the democrats line. Caller i think president obama has put a lot of tools on the table. She has executive orders and etc. To strengthen communities. One of the things he said that makes a much sense is that we need a bottomup economy. A bottomup economy means that people will have to participate. He can give us all the tools and do all the work but none of the representatives or towns, we may to present a super mayor. All he has to do is take the blame for local area not doing its work to bring Small Businesses up from the ground. It is not taxes is about him allowing people to innovate, people at the Community Level to come into the market. Then the economy will breakthrough. Otherwise they will continue to complain, obstruct and do games that benefit wall street and the topdown model wont work for us on the supplyside theory that the republicans insist on holding to. It will keep letting us down and give us another collapse. We dont need any more collapses. If the people do well, then they can have insurance and afford gos and our problems will away. It comes down to the local area doing its share. Obama cant come to your house and knock on your door and tell you here are all the opportunities you need. Paul capetta on twitter caner the republicans prove the top 10 are the job creators. Break thatve a tax for every new employee that the , if people hire this year they can prove there is a net gain from all these tax cuts that everybody will be happy, thank you. The Salt Lake Tribune this morning talking about a ruling in utah. Judy up next. Harbour beach, michigan, democrats line. Discuss thent to whole economy thing about the economy getting better. Most of the stimulus money went to the banks and the banks were supposed to lend that money out. I know so many people that are about to lose their homes and you mentioned earlier about so many jobs that are parttime. I became a substitute teacher. I have three endorsements, a masters degree. They definitely dont want to hire me and i have to sub. They took away my pension. I have no pension and i make between 70 and 76 a day. I cant afford to pay my bills. I can barely afford to eat and pay for gas to get back and forth. He needs to take a look at it really needs to go from the bottom up instead of the top down. These banks are what collapse our economy. I really think the Affordable Care act was a great idea. ,e did some wonderful things but he has given into the republicans too much and he has not publicized enough what good things have come out of the aca. We have a new irs commissioner receiving praise from their present in a statement saying i applaud the pipe partisan the bipartisan majority of senators rob from kansas. He is on a republican line. Caller i have tried to call for years and this is the first time i got through. Host congratulations. Couple of comments. Earlier, the lady said that it it is thelican Republicans Holding him down. Unfortunately, what people dont know is that harry reid has the power, obama has the power, obama had a democratic majority and obamaok office even says republicans never offer any ideas. As a fact, the republicans send lots of bills to the senate but harry reid, he has the ability to either present their bills or not present them to the senate. 95 of what is offered to the senate by the republicans never goes to a vote. Other thing, obama care is a thing that will keep us down in 2014. When people find out what the premiums are and the deductibles, this is not an Affordable Care act. Thank you. Roses from idaho on our independent line. Caller hello, good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Are getting on and saying on, can and cant do what obama can and cant do. This man is broken so many laws of our constitution, him and eric holder. Fast and furious, were they killed some eight people in mexico. You have so many things he has changed on this healthcare law which he doesnt have the authority for. That is why harry reid is stacking the people in the Appellate Courts for this man to keep doing is illegal activity. That they arelize serializing Homeland Security and nationalizing our police. This is something that is totally unacceptable and do you guys wonder why the people dont trust the government . Is both democrats and republicans, they both want this. As far as a breakthrough year for 2014, something we have ripped off the president statement yesterday, what do you think . I dont believe anything this man says. He does not speak for the people. He said he would make us look like a european country and the man is achieving that. You had a tv at home, but if youre watching now, currently at the International Space station there is a spacewalk going on. My pictures on the screen, this whatsa has described this our makeshift snorkels allow an evennaut to keep reading if water should fill the helmet. It happened during his june italian astronaut. Currently, that work is going on. This is a spacewalk to replace a malfunctioning pump module is part of the space stations cooling system. That walked going on live on nasa tv. One of several that are planned. Including one for christmas day. A little bit of the pictures of the current spacewalk going on at the International Space station. Tom from kentucky, democrats line. Caller i just wanted to say Merry Christmas and get straight to my comment. Some of these people this morning and i dont hear any of them talking about what brought us to this mess. The health care, obama admitted adjustments would have to be hasnt lied about anything. He is to make those adjustments. We have the Tea Party Like cruise in these other people who wont let this take place. They wont let him do what he is supposed to do to make the economy better. The previous president that we cardad a limitless credit and he went on a spending spree. Took us 22 wars, and by the way with the wrong country. I believe the hijackers and all that stuff, without getting into all that, were saudi arabians. There were no iraqis. So we got bogged down there. Using 2014 could be a breakthrough year as the president hopes . If he i think you can be is allowed to do some of the things he needs to do. Host such as . Can redo health care for one. You can do job incentives. If the health care is costly enough, less expensive enough to where the employers can afford a good policy, maybe to cover, that is going to cut costs. We have so many people out here that dont have insurance. They have to go to er and things like that and that runs bills up. If you get a policy that they can afford that will give them coverage like the congress has how come they are not subjected to this healthcare . They have a golden nest or something . They have the best insurance it can be bought. Host the president talking about the rollout of the Affordable Care act and healthcare. Gov yesterday. Heres a statement from the press conference yesterday. And for all the challenges we have had, and all the challenges we have been working on bothently in dealing with the aca and the website these past couple months, more than half a million americans have enrolled through healthcare. Gov in the first three weeks of december alone. Example, the, for state is operating its own marketplace and more than 15,000 americans are enrolling every single day. In the federal website tens of thousands are enrolling every single day. Since october 1, more than one million americans have selected new Health Insurance plans through the federal and state marketplaces. All told, millions of americans, despite the problems with the besite, are now poised to covered by quality affordable Health Insurance come new years day