jennifer ruben, i'm just asking you, what's he have to do? three points is not enough.got to win bay dozen points. >> the first thing it tells me is these people don't watch enough larry kudlow, because otherwise they would know the buffett tax is nonsense. but seriously, i think this is going to be a close race all along. i do think that romney has the edge. you could tell that because obama wants to talk about everything other than jobs, other than the economy. he wants to throw a bunch of negative stuff up against the wasm he wants to talk about george bush. he wants to talk about osama bin laden. if romney can make the case not only that we are on the road to ruin with this guy, following in the steps of europe, following in the steps of the french and the greeks and this is the key part, make the case that he has an alternative plan that is better, i think if the election is fought on those terms, he does very well. >> hang on a second, david. the reason i think that romney will finally get a ten or 12-point lead, because your man, president obama, wants to raise t

jennifer ruben, great right wing -- what sit? right turn. >> i am right wing, but it's right turn. >> and matt lewis, as always. >>> up next, zero, failed, laughing stock. words being used to describe our president and his zero vote budget. at this hour, we talk to oklahoma republican senator tom coburn, the author of "the debt bomb." america needs a deal. up ahead, there's one thing democrats can agree on, tax the rich class warfare. that's their mantra. robert rice and tj rogers are going to square off. later in the show, stock sinking, gold plunging, treasury bond rates collapsing. king dollar is rallying, but i'm sensing a whiff of deflation in the air. don't forget, folks, free market capitalism, still the best path to prosperity. if obama had cut the corporate tax rate, i would have supported it in a nano second. i'm larry kudlow. wooem be right back. >>> after failing in the senate 99-0, president obama's budget proposal hasn't received a single vote of support in all of congress, neither the house, nor the senate, neither

"the washington post" jennifer ruben writes the level of inanity among administration officials increases daly. secretary of state clinton last week pronounced the assad regime brutality against its own people must and will end. assad's reign of terror will end only if he is forced to leave or killed. and clinton has nothing but finger wagging to offer. over to the guardian who talks about yaush, syria's top ally and how it must be involved. for russia's civil war and sectarian chaos in syria is as potent a threat to its strategic interests as a nato intervention. it's late to the table but russia's support for annan could yet save the plan. russia and china have been faulted for blocking the u.n. on taking action. we're joined by aman in cairo. what are the expectations for these talks today between kofi annan and president assad? >> well, good morning, willie. if you ask syrian opposition activists inside and outside of syria, they'll tell you there really is no hope to the u.n. peace plan. it has now been in place for six weeks. it's not stopped the violence. although it's important to

the post's own jennifer ruben notes the absence of long investigative pieces on president obama.cludes no wonder conservative are suspicious of mainstream media. looking through the archive we found two articles mentioning then senator obama high school years. one of those spent 10,000 words describing how hawaii shaped his life. his school friends admiration for him. briefly mentions his self-confessed drug use. the other looks at how school sports influenced the presidential candidates. >>> new book claims bill and chelsea clinton urged hillary to challenge president obama in the 201 2012 primaries. edward klein called president obama amateur, incompetent at a family gathering last summer. clinton urged his wife, "you know better than obama does. the country needs you." the clinton and obama camps are both hitting back calling klein a known liar. klein, a former "new york times" magazine editor dismisses that. >>> updating a story we brought you earlier in week in our friday followup segment. bake sales in massachusetts schools will not be given the boot. for patrick asked heal