the courts what has caused the coulter change? why are we at the point where the coulter shifting?- the culture is shifting? >> i think that the fact that other countries are having problems with their debt accumulation brings it on to us. we normally easend of naturalisc might happen to greece today and it can happen to other countries. >> you have participated in some of the big budget deals in the past 20 years. 1997, for example, was probably the last big deal that was bipartisan and made big cuts in the budget. since then, there has not been any substantial bipartisan deal. i'm wondering how high or low your hopes are forgetting something sweeping along the lines of 1997. it seems like going into it, the partisan lines are sharply drawn where every republican says no to anything that looks like a tax increase and democrats say, well, nothing is going to happen unless there is a balance of spending increases and cuts. steny hoyer talked about last week things like tough medicine, raising the retirement age on sscial security, not its ackley a popular thing. but the democrats la

caller: i have worked for bp many times and their whole safety culture is a clean coulter. -- is a bling culture. every two hours you walkout ended changes again. host: could you explain that? caller: it is okay to do anything dangerous as long as they can blame you for it. it is different when the safety inspectors walked out. host: if you have c-span on, you can see the underwater robotics from the bp website. what kind of work you do? caller: right there is what i do. my best friend is the supervisor on this said that you are watching right now. this is a pretty much british- controlled company even though they are norwegian. host: where are you located when you are doing this work. -- this work? caller: on the ship. host: and you are basically using a computer and a joystick? caller: yeah, kinda. it is a lot more complicated. what they were just doing is probably putting some type of why call in the containment dome to keep their hydrates from freezing up. but on the screen it says the dispersant and they are still spraying dispersants -. i heard that people have said that they still

they defeated bill coulter, who had been back to very heavily and very expensively frankly by organized labor -- bill halter. they spent $10 million trying to defeat blades lincoln, mostly because they were upset with her opposing the card check legislation, in legislative priorities of theirs. essentially she now can run against him. frankly she used their opposition to her very effectively. despite the fact she is a two- term incumbent, she was able to tell voters in arkansas that she was running against washington because she was running against special interests like organized labor. host: for those who say there is an anti-incumbency mood in the country, does hurt when go against that? guest: it goes against it, sure, because she is end up, and who won, but she did win narrowly. make no mistake. only by 2% or 2.5%. it swung pretty closely, just by a few thousand votes. if it were a few thousand votes and the other direction, we would be talking about out the anti-incumbent wave was rolling on. she was able to point out the fact that she is the chairman of the senate agricultural co