Greg Corombos of Radio America and Jim Geraghty of National Review like how well RNC Chairman Reince Priebus sums up the failed Obama record. They also wonder why any Republican presidential candidates would subject themselves to a debate featuring Donald Trump. And we try to make sense of the end of the Herman Cain campaign.
Many conservatives sounded the alarm that the Obama health care plan would include panels of government bureaucrats deciding which Medicare treatments would be approved and which would be denied as too expensive. Tennessee Rep. Phil Roe says those critics were right, although they were pointing to the wrong provision. So what part of the health care laws could lead to bureaucrats denying needed treatments? How would those decisions be made? What would that mean for patients? And what is Rep. Roe doing to put health care decisions back in the hands of patients? Listen here for the full discussion.
This week, Congress failed to extend payroll tax breaks even though both parties want them extended. Democrats want to pay for the cuts by adding a tax on millionaires. Republicans want spending cuts as offsets. Where would the GOP trim spending? Should payroll tax cuts be extended at all? Will the two parties find common ground? We ask Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly, a longtime small business owner. Rep. Kelly also weighs in on Friday’s November jobs report.
On Friday, the Labor Department reported 120,000 new jobs in the month of November and that the unemployment rate dropped to 8.6 percent. Both are positive numbers, but have we turned the corner or is there more to the story? How worried should we be about the 315,000 people who quit the labor force? What is keeping businesses from hiring more? And when will we see how much of this was temporary holiday hiring? We ask Diana Furchtgott-Roth, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.
The Capitol Steps roll out their first Christmas parody by poking fun at the politically correct efforts to remove any distinction between the various holidays at this time of year.
Greg Corombos of Radio America and Jim Geraghty of National Review cheer Newt Gingrich for his characterization of President Obama and for saying a good conservative candidate will attract moderates to his side and not need to shift to the middle. They see some good news in the November jobs report but the real reason for better numbers is not very good. And they dismiss Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz for suggesting that state laws requiring photo ID to vote amounts to rigging elections for Republicans.
Greg Corombos of Radio America and Jim Geraghty of National Review are encouraged to see Democratic Rep. Dennis Cardoza articulating an ever-growing disappointment in President Obama. They’re also alarmed that the U.S. economy is exhibiting more and more signs of what crippled the economies of several European nations. And they scold Mitt Romney for whining that his interview with Bret Baier of Fox News was ‘overly aggressive’ and ‘unfair’.
The Obama administration has quickly sealed court documents detailing the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. He was killed by a gun smuggled to Mexican drug cartels by the U.S. Department Justice as part of an alleged sting known as Fast & Furious. What does this action tell us? What can Congressional Republicans do about it? And how might lawmakers respond to news that the whistle blowers who brought this scandal to light have since been punished for doing so? We discuss it all with Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, a member of the House committee investigating the Fast & Furious program.
