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What's missing from this picture is a snowplow. how come the country's capital can't clear its streets? is this giant snow a metaphor for a government frozen in its tracks? also funny words about republicans from the head of the naacp ben gellis who compares republicans who threaten health care dixie krats of the past. gellis and al sharpton met with president obama today. we'll meet with them here in a moment. when john boehner told president obama he should scrap plans for key efforts like health care. the president shot back you just want to kill all these bills. will tough talk get thing...

Hands-on way. he campaigned on changing washington. this is very much business as usual. omnibus spending bill is a giant throw everything in. that's exactly what that bill was. the reason he didn't veto it was because of the military spending. the president threatened it that th morning. not that many people were taking that threat seriously. brooke, this is an unpredictable place here. it is the president saying he's thinking about vetoing it. of course, he didn't. but he was trying to place the blame on everyone except him for his role in this 1.3 trillion spending bill. fiscal conservative...

Political change. they don't control them." ryan, did the president really have to learn that lesson? was that not something he understood before taking the oath of office? >> that's a good question. because let's be honest, obama's not the first question to campaign on changing washington, right? he's not the first person to tap into the anti-washington sentiment out there, and, you know, the question is, was it all just rhetoric or did he actually mean it? and you know, after looking at this pretty closely and writing about obama for a number of years now, i think it was genuine. i think he ...

Was that not something he understood before taking the oath of office? >> that's a good question. because let's be honest, obama's not the first question to campaign on changing washington, right? he's not the first person to tap into the anti-washington sentiment out there, and, you know, the question is, was it all just rhetoric or did he actually mean it? and you know, after looking at this pretty closely and writing about obama for a number of years now, i think it was genuine. i think he genuinely believed in his ability to forge consensus around some of the big issues of the day. i think...

Let me be clear because i think it's important given all the things that were done in this state over the last few weeks. we are not going to go out and run nasty ads. we're not going to go out and run 30-second ads. but i do reserve the right to tell the truth. and if the truth seems negative, that may be more a comment on his record than it is on politics. so this is going to be a debate that begins tomorrow morning in new hampshire and will go on for a few months. and i am convinced that the republican party will pick an heir of reagan, a committed conservative, and somebody with a track re...