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Death panels, all of this. their biggest claim is nobody wanted it. even if the rollout had gone smoothly and the web site had worked last year, nobody wanted it so it didn't matter. this is a policy failure, a communication failure, a media failure. so the response is to seal that bubble a little tighter and yell at each other that the numbers doesn't matter and they're made up. but going forward they have to deal with the reality eventually. >> well, i don't know about that one. joe, it was interesting, too, because this week, even on fox news the question about an alternative started to cre...

This complete obstructionist approach. eventually they're going to have to put something on the table. boehner in ohio, uninsured, boehner in ohio with all the unemployment and he won't move in the house on unemployment benefits. there's a complete gap between the normal representative actions and what's going on in their home state. and with health care, they just have never acknowledged it's a problem. they have never -- going back to the clinton year, they would never acknowledge there was a problem with health care in this country and that's why they haven't come up with a plan. >> i think...

S.n.a.p. $125 billion pell grants or low income college students. $250 billion school lunch, child nutrition, et cetera. but he adds, ryan, $483 billion in defense spending. now, all these cuts are actually worse than in prior years. the ryan budgets are actually getting worse, not better. >> there is a missing step in the ryan plan. he thinks that if you take benefits away from people, you take help away from people, that will kind of force them into the job market. but the step he is missing is that there aren't enough jobs. >> right. >> there are already millions more people looking for job...

Taxpayers? i call it basic common decency. >> where do you get the money from it? you take it from taxpayers. why do you always leave out -- >> that's what we have taxes for, grover. we have taxes in order to fulfill the essential role of government. >> like sugar subsidies. very important. >> we agree on sugar subsidies. you see the role of government as a little defense i know you want to put in the bathtub and strangle. i see the essential role of government as broader including protecting its most vulnerable citizens. do you want to get rid of all medicaid? yes or no. >> no. step one. >> d...

Protecting its most vulnerable citizens. do you want to get rid of all medicaid? yes or no. >> no. step one. >> do you want to get rid of all of medicaid? >> the next step in terms of reforming medicare is the ryan plan. that's on the table. block granting it to the states. >> ruth, do you think one of the reasons the president is apologizing right now is because he knows that there is worse news to come down the road? when is it that we're going to actually see somebody say that six months from now that if this isn't working that something big has to be done rather than just taking little tin...