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i absolutely agree with norman ornstein. i think that the filibuster's been massively abused since at least 2000. and it's childish on city nance, this do anything to stop mr. blacky black man is old, and i think the american people are tired of it. guest: let me note one thing that one of the hesitations that some democrats have now is the house is in the hands of the republicans, so if your goal here so get legislation through, they are not going to eliminate the filibuster, they are just going to put the pressure on the republicans. this may help you get bills through the senate but it isn't going to homestretch you in the house. and if they do it by the way they wanted called the nuclear option instead of doing it normal practice, that can be filibustered and requires 2/3 of those present voting. if you do it that way, the republicans have indicated that will go to defcon one and block all action in the senate and that it's unprecedented and won't happen. so you've got to be careful about what the cost and benefits are.

. >> norm ornstein is a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute and co-author of the new book, "it's even worse than it looks." he says even if congress were somehow to embrace the president's plan to increase taxes on income above the first $250,000, it would not raise nearly enough revenue to put the nation back on solid financial footing anyway. >> raising taxes on the rich alone, as president obama has pledged, doesn't take us more than a third to a half of the way towards what is a realistic goal. >> even though some conservative economists insist otherwise, ornstein and the nonpartisan tax policy center conclude the arithmetic doesn't work for romney's plan either. the gop candidate would cut spending to domestic government programs and limit tax deductions while lowering income tax rates by 20 percent, increasing the pentagon budget and deferring medicare changes for a decade. >> so while the two candidates make their final campaign pushes, given the political gridlock here in washington, it's ultimately unclear how either candidate will be able to create large num

i absolutely agree with norman ornstein. think that the filibuster's been massively abused since at least 2000. and it's childish on city nance, this do anything to stop mr. blacky black man is old, and i think the american people are tired of it. guest: let me note one thing that one of the hesitations that some democrats have now is the house is in the hands of the republicans, so if your goal here so get legislation through, they are not going to eliminate the filibuster, they are just going to put the pressure on the republicans. this may help you get bills through the senate but it isn't going to homestretch you in the house. and if they do it by the way they wanted called the nuclear option instead of doing it normal practice, that can be filibustered and requires 2/3 of those present voting. if you do it that way, the republicans have indicated that will go to defcon one and block all action in the senate and that it's unprecedented and won't happen. so you've got to be careful about what the cost and benefits are. th

[applause] >> the thank you very much henry and onto best-selling author norm ornstein. >> thanks karlyn. i want to suggest to everybody in the room and in the audience if you have not read henry's pre-election memo which is national review on line, do it. even though the election is over because it's not just about having the number spot on. it's about what is behind it. the analysis is the best you will see about why the electorate is going the way it is and where it is going and so i give him a big shout out on that. now i want to say just a mea culpa, as karlyn said about michael, we have all been wrong at times and i was wrong on the choice of a running mate for mitt romney. i predicted he would choose newt gingrich. i thought it was the perfect balance ticket, a mormon and a polygamist. [laughter] i was wrong about the marijuana initiatives. i thought they would fail because i thought there were be as essential number of supporters who would wake up on wednesday morning in say hey dude was that election yesterday? i missed that one as well. but i also want to comment about somebody

ornstein, and then, mr. barone, as you're out there and karlyn, as y'all are constantly looking at cultural effects and effort, what happens within our national culture? will it be a time of healing or further division? >> okay. and, pat, can you go to ben lautenberg here in the front? >> hi. i walked in just after karlyn was talking about -- >> can you speak up, ben? >> what? >> can you speak up? >> yeah. i say i walked in just as you were finishing your remarks on dick scanlon, and i wanted to -- [inaudible] .. >> half-and-half. do you want 49? in a winner take all situation, the winner in a take all situation can be tilted by the tiniest group of voters. after all, you -- say, who is deciding am et cetera. the votes of the left-handed lithuanians. that was sort of his -- the winner take all, a lot of -- [inaudible] that god-given arabs the oil and jews the electoral college. [laughter] they were clustered in swing states, in florida. >> norm, you're going to respond to the diamond in the rough. >> so it p

now i turn to norman ornstein.when they first described to this book to me i said it is just like that eric clapton album that was imitated many time. time and norm unplug the. i give you norm and blood. >> i want to start with a plug. this is not the only book which should be capturing deep attention by those who care about our political system. e.j. dionne has a book coming out which is marvelous call our divided political heart. what is the subtitle? >> the battle for the american idea in an age of discontent. now you know why i love these guys. i suggested a new subtitle, richard lugar is a full. >> thank you. please, buy them both. both make a great holiday gifts. july 4th -- father's they followed -- e.j. dionne started by talking about the 40 year partnership tom and i have had and in that time we tried scrupulously to be fair minded and not take sides. we call them as we see them. but for me it has always been a point of pride that i can give a talk to people and have someone come up afterwards and say we c

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congressional scholars alive today, thomas mann, senior fellow at the brookings institution and norm ornsteinholar american enterprise institute and authors of "it's even worse than it looks, how the american solution collided with the new politics of extremism." thank you for joining me the day before thanksgiving. >> delighted. >> how did that happen? >> it started changing actually earlier in the late '50s and early '60s as business picked up and there was much to be done and the senate didn't have the luxury of sitting back and enjoying a single senator or group of senators trying to filibuster, so they set up a two-track system and so on and its escalated dramatically in recent years. basically the minority has decided that it is the route to making the president of the luxury of sitting back and enjoying a single senator or group of senators trying to filibuster, so they set up a two-track system and so on and its escalated dramatically in recent years. basically the minority has decided that it is the route to making the president of the other party a failure. either by defeating out r

veteran congress-watcher norman ornstein is with the american enterprise institute, a conservative think tank in washington >> there's been four years especially of deep frustration among democrats. frustration because the filibuster has been used really over the last six years, but in particular, over the last four, in ways that it was never in history used before. >> holman: designed to protect the rights of the minority party in the senate, the filibuster was used sparingly, often for issues of great importance like civil rights. but as the tool has become a regular tool of political warfare, scrutiny of the procedure has increased and questions raised about its impact on the chamber. now, reid and other senate democrats want to change the rules to eliminate the 60-vote threshold needed to formally begin debate on a bill; and require a "talking filibuster," forcing senators to make their case on the floor for hours and hours, like jimmy stewart did in the 1939 film "mr. smith goes to washington." >> i'm not, and i'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. >> holman: or

. >> bill: now i will take the position of thomasman and ornstein who wrote a wonderful book, it is worsen it looks who said we could have gotten this done. an agreement on the deficit reduction plan a balanced plan if republicans had been willing to compromise. they clearly were not. before this election. they lost, obama won. are boehner and company going to be more willing to compromise now do you believe? >> you were talking about this before. i think they are saying that they're more flexible. they're saying they would take more revenues. if you listen very carefully to what the president said and what john boehner said, they're saying very similar things. president obama in his address in the east room did not once mention raising taxes. >> bill: i caught that. i know that. right. >> listen, he campaigned on it. boehner's aides who i've been talking to a lot and i cover obviously, are betting that obama had a campaign message and now it is time for the governing message. you saw that on friday. he did not mention race. paper said we're not going to raise tax rates but we're raise ta

. >> today on "washington journal," norman ornstein gives a filibuster in the senate. steven stone of politico examines tax credits. "washington journal" is live starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. president obama travels to pennsylvania friday to talk about his plan to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. we'll be live from the manufacturing company in hatfield, pennsylvania at noon eastern on c-span 3. >> the program began under one of the advisors to president franklin roosevelt, to document the conditions under which people were living. this was back when we didn't have television. we had radio, but a lot of places didn't have electricity so they could not listen to the radio broadcast to find out what was going on in other parts of the country. ray striker, who was an economist from columbia university, he is the head of this project and in 1939 when kodak introduced color film, they sent it to him to have his photographers try it out to see what they could do. kodak was trying to establish a new product in a new market and they wanted people who knew how to use

it includes authors thomas mann and norm ornstein. >> moldavia and ukraine.t had the prices are the highest in the world. you pay on average with taxes in the u.s., $160. in france, you pay $30 u.s. and get worldwide calling to 70 countries. not just to the u.s. and canada. your internet is 20 times faster uploading and downloading. all these countries understand a fundamental principle. in the 19th century, canals and railroads were the key to economic growth as industrial and industrial growth came along. >> now, the joint center for political and economic studies. the african-american vote. this is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. i am part of the joint center for political and economic studies. we are one of the leading institute and policy centers. we focus on african-americans and other people of color. i want to welcome you here today, the day after the election, to our assessment of the impact of the african-american vote in the 2012 presidential election. quite a few of the battleground states -- analysts will continue to r

roll calls congress inside out canis norman ornstein and aei's national research initiative directorhenry olsen. they will become the deciding factor in how voters cast their ballots and issues important to voters. that's why begin at 12 noon eastern here on c-span2. >> america ranks 29,000 feet of its internet behind such as the ukraine. moldavia and ukraine. we pay the highest price in were by far. i one measure with a 38 times with the japanese pay for bit of information. if you buy one of these triple pay packages and i have one, you pay on average with tax and use $160. in france, you pay $38 u.s., and you get worldwide calling to 70 country, not just in u.s. and candidate. you get worldwide television, not just domestic, and to in his 20 times faster upload and 10 times faster downloading. you are paying less than 25 cents on the dollar. all these other countries understand a fundamental principle. in the 19th century, canals and railroads were the key to economic growth to an dutch relation, and you had to move heavy things like steel. as a 20th century came along, it was high

on the far right here, not politically, is norm ornstein, a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute, a longtime contributing editor @ "roll call." next to him, senior scholar at the brookings institution. these two wrote one book recently -- a few years ago called "the broken branch: how congress is failing america and have to get it back on track." nobody followed their advice, so they just came out with a new book called "it is even worse than it looks: how the american constitutional system collided with the new politics of extremism." that book is a best-seller, and i encourage you to go out and get it. i would like to see it made into a movie. a horror movie, it would be. the 112th congress, i think we will agree, is one of the worst in terms of production in american history -- recent american history, anyway. governing by continuing resolution, endless filibusters, bills' passing the house never seeing the light of day in the senate. we almost defaulted on the national debt and so on. the 112th congress has one last chance when it returns for the lame duck session,

on the far right here, not politically, is norm ornstein, a senior fellow at the american enterprisetute, a longtime contributing editor at "roll call." next to him, senior scholar at the brookings institution. these two wrote one book recently -- a few years ago called "the broken branch: how congress is failing america and have to get it back on track." nobody followed their advice, so they just came out with a new book called "it is even worse than it looks: how the american constitutional system collided with the new politics of extremism." that book is a best-seller, and i encourage you to go out and get it. i would like to see it made into a movie. a horror movie, it would be. the 112th congress, i think we will agree, is one of the worst in terms of production in american history -- recent american history, anyway. governing by continuing resolution, endless filibusters, bills passing the house never seeing the light of day in the senate. we almost defaulted on the national debt and so on. the 112th congress has one last chance when it returns for the lame duck session, and, o

two longtime senate watchers -- thomas mann and norm ornstein, one representing a pregnantive think tank another a conservative think tank. "we have been studying washington politics and congress nor than 40 years and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. in our past writings we've criticized both parties. today however we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the republican party." mr. president, i didn't make that up. they wrote it. two of the foremost congress watchers this country has ever had. that's what they wrote. objective outside observers are calling it like it is. the current republican minority is abusing the senate rules. and so in response, to quote senator mcconnell, "the current senate majority intend dozen what the majority in the senate has often done, use its constitutional authority to reform senate promoter we plan to do sow so to repair the senate. i'm sorry if people are criticizing me if we're not doing more. but we're doing enough. we get rid of the motion to proceed and have people come here and present their faces, as s

now on to best-selling author, norman ornstein. >> thank you. i want to suggest to everybody here, if you have not read henry's pre-alexa memo which is at national review online, do it. it is not just about having the numbers spot on. it is about what is behind it. the analysis is the best you will see about by the electorate is breaking down the way it is and where it was going. i give him a big shout out on that. i want to say a mea culpa. we have all been wrong at times. i was wrong on the choice of a running mate for mitt romney. i've predicted he would choose newt gingrich. i thought it was the perfect balance ticket. a mormon and a polygamous. [applause] [laughter] i was wrong about the marijuana and this does. i thought it would fail because i thought to be a substantial amount of supporters to with a cup of morning we did on wednesday and say hey, dude, with the election yesterday? but i also want to give a comment about somebody else -- perhaps our most astute prognosticator, dick morris. the best line of the year by far is from david a

. >> friday, congressional historian norm ornstein explains the changes that senator harry reid is pursuing. then examining the key tax credits aimed at families and businesses that will be impacted if congress does not move on the so-called fiscal cliff. president obama travels to pennsylvania friday to talk about his plan to avoid the so- called fiscal cliff. the event is part of the white house efforts to get public support for the president's proposal to and bush era tax cuts on incomes of two hundred $50,000 and above. -- of $250,000 and above. >> he worked his way up, went to harvard law school and then, at the urging of one of his brothers, immigrated out was to illinois to golena where the lead mining industry was in its heyday. he arrived after about a month journey by ship, by stagecoach, by train and arrived in a steamboat in this muddy mining town. he boarded himself in a log cabin, and established a law practice in a log cabin. and slowly worked his way up and became a very successful lawyer and then got involved politically, ran for congress for eight terms. and then befriende