welcome back to the ed show. last night president obama said the american people were fed up and he s right. but republicans are still trying to sell their plan through the right-wing media. we already told you about the boehner trying to get clearance from rush limbaugh, but now politico reports a bigger pr campaign by boehner and his top lieutenants. they are privately reaching out to sean hannity, britt hume of the wall street journal, and conservative commentators of the national review, the weekly standard, and other publications. no wonder they re so desperate, because the numbers show they re in trouble. in a new poll, 46% trust president obama more to make the right decisions on how to reduce the federal deficit. 34% trust republicans more.
and speaker boehner s speech last night? take a look at what a blank check looks like. president obama. that s right, he isn t asking for a blank check to spend more money, he s proposed $4.7 trillion in cuts and boehner basically told him to go to hell. $4.7 trillion. shared sacrifice is what the president of the united states has been talking about, and you know what would have been in that $4.7 trillion? medicare, medicaid, social security. but you know, that deal was gone. that was the deal that boehner didn t take. but $4.7 trillion! how many zeros is that? one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven! what is the price of president obama s failure to the republicans? hell, it is a blank check.
welcome back to the ed show. last night president obama said the american people were fed up and he s right. but republicans are still trying to sell their plan through the right-wing media. we already told you about the boehner trying to get clearance from rush limbaugh, but now politico reports a bigger pr campaign by boehner and his top lieutenants. they are privately reaching out to sean hannity, britt hume of the wall street journal, and conservative commentators of the national review, the weekly standard, and other publications. no wonder they re so desperate, because the numbers show they re in trouble. in a new poll, 46% trust president obama more to make the right decisions on how to reduce the federal deficit. 34% trust republicans more.
president s prime time speech, he said he didn t even watch it. after he made his own remarks to the nation, he was overheard saying, quote, i didn t sign up for going mano a mano with the president of the united states. fair and balanced debate, ford o connell and democratic strategist mary ann marsh, former adviser to senator john kerry. welcome to both of you. thank you. good morning, jamie. jamie: mary ann, the highest wage earners in our country, that s who the president pointed out last night. yet the reid plan doesn t call for new taxes, higher taxes. did he undercut his own party s plan? i think everyone s undercut everybody, and as a result undercut this country. the fact is, without revenues we re not going to hit $4 trillion in cuts, and that s what it s going to require for goldman sachs and standard and & poor s not to downgrade our credit. so we re now in the unbelievable position of perhaps avoiding a
be told no social security for you, no medicare, none of the things you ve already paid into. and that s the problem, republicans want to avoid a primary, and be independent voters will not forgive them in a general election. as a democrat, i want the house back, but they picked the wrong fight because it s going to cost them too much. i ll peat republicans any beat republicans any day, but not this way because it s bad for the country. they re going to be a minority party the likes of which when the democrats lost the south will make it look like a two week vacation. jamie: all right, it sounds like you re calling for a bipartisan resolution, and be, ford, there s a wall street journal editorial today that i read that said the president last night not only called out republicans, but they used the word demeaned republicans. how do you feel about that? what else do you expect about a president that hasn t offered a plan? now the president s to the left of his own senate majority