it's laughable. the bipartisan simpson bowls commission that i created, which the republicans originally were for until i was for it, that was about paying down the deficit. and i didn't agree with all of the details. i proposed about $600 billion more in revenue, and $600 billion -- sorry, it proposed about $600 billion more in revenue and about $600 billion more in defense cuts than i proposed in my own budget. but bowls-simpson was a sear yushgs honest balanced effort between democrats and republicans to bring down the deficit. that's why although it difficulters in some ways, my budget takes a similarly balanced approach. cuts in discretionary spend, cuts in mandatory spending, increased revenue. this congressional republican budget is something different altogether. it is a trojan horse. disguised as deficit reduction plans, it is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. it is thinly veiled social darwinism. it is antithetical to our history as a land of opportunity and upwar

he called it laughable. steve handelsman now on capitol hill with more on this. steve? >> reporter: jim, thanks. he tried to get a laugh. at mitt romney's expense, teasing the republican front-runner for calling the republican budget passed by the house up here probably doomed in the senate, as marvelous. the president says, who calls anything marvelous. it's pretty clear he thinks he's going to be running against mitt romney. he called the difference between himself and romney's republicans, quoting now, unambiguously clear. president obama unleashed his full campaign attack on washington. as voters cast their primary votes in d.c. and in maryland today. and in closely watched wisconsin. the midwest battleground that some call must win. for rick santorum. but he trailed in pre-vote polls. >> i voted for romney. >> reporter: mitt romney campaigned with wisconsin congressman ryan. >> it's laughable. >> reporter: president obama charged republicans doubled down on radicalism. >> and proposed a budget so far to the right, it makes the contract with america look like the ne

he called it laughable. steve handelsman is watching it all from capitol hill. >> reporter: president obama unleashed his full campaign attack from washington, as voters cast their primary votes in d.c. and in maryland today. and in closely watched wisconsin. the midwest battleground that some call must-win. for rick santorum, he trailed from prevote polls. >> i voted for romney. >> reporter: mitt romney campaigned with congressman paul ryan. whose gop budget passed the house last week, endorsed by romney. >> it's laughable. >> reporter: president obama charged, republicans double down on radicalism. >> and proposed a budget so far to the right, it makes the contract with america look like the new deal. >> reporter: spending cuts so deep, the president claimed, they gut education, training, research. >> our infrastructure, it is a prescription for decline. >> reporter: he said he would cut spending, too, but less, and hike taxes on millionaires. >> i'll repeat what i said before, that is not class warfare, t

. >> it's laughable. >> reporter: the president will campaign on taxing millionaires more. >> i ra ep what i said before, that is not class warfare or envy. that is math. >> reporter: rick santorum math is one, one more chance, pennsylvania in three weeks. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. >>> president obama had harsh words yesterday for the republican's latest budget plan. speaking at a lunch in washington, the president denounced the gop budget passed by the house last week as, quote, thinly veiled social darwinism and a trojan horse disguised as deficit reduction plan. the plan would cut $5.3 trillion over ten years through deep cuts in spending and entitlement programs. there's virtually no chance the senate will pass it. >>> -- not to overturn health care reform. the judge interpreted the president's remarks about unelected judges undoing lawed passed by congress through, quote, judicial activism as denaying the court's right to find acts of congress unconstitutionally judge, a reagan appointee is involved in a separate challenge to the health care law and ordered the

. >> it is laughable. i repeat what i said before, it is not class warfare, it is math. >> one more chance, pennsylvania in three weeks. santorum still leads in the polls in his home state, but romney is on the rise. steve handelsman, wbal-tv 11 news. >> we are hoping he would check out our new interactive map that shows the results county by county. see how your county voted on wbaltv.com. >> the voter turnout in maryland today was lackluster. >> administrators say it will be lucky to get to 25%. kerry cavanaugh saw that in person today. she joins us live from baltimore county. i take it the parking lot was never crowded today? >> it was not. if you showed up. 2:00 this afternoon, it looked pretty much the same. as you mentioned, voter turnout was lower today. they are guessing the term that will average just over 10% across the state. you cannot blame the weather for keeping people away from the polls on this beautiful spring day. boaters' trickled in to cast their ballots in maryland's primary election.

he taunted the u.s., calling the bounty laughable. saeed is suspected of planning the 2008 attacks on mumbai, india. he says he'll be in lahore, pakistan, today. >>> a senior u.n. official arrives in syria today to try to finalize a cease-fire agreed to by the syrian government. but as you see there, syrian troops have not stopped their crackdown on opposition forces. syrian artillery pounded the city of homs yesterday while other troops stormed rebel positions. >>> coming up on the morning news, the rebuilding begins. people in north texas hit by a string of tornadoes assess the damage. first though, a preview of tonight's "cbs evening news." >> on opening day of our national pastime, see an extraordinary collection of treasures and the man who's preserving history. tonight on the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. he "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. i brought champagne. oh wow! best in the world. oikos greek yogurt from dannon. so creamy thick and fresh tasting dannon oikos berry flavors beat chobani 2:1 in a national taste

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and we're so far away from that, it's laughable. as to toby's point, he's right.d help costs, but the unfortunately part it's studied and apart from on a national level. it's studied in health affairs and runs about 55 billion in savings. that sounds like a lot, but it's only about 2.4% of total health care costs, so, it's a step forward, it's not a huge step. i think it's a step we need to take though. >> jonas, what do you think? >> well, first of all, in a free market, you sue doctors in hospitals and it does raise costs and leads to the tests going on because they try to protect their own basically and doing unnecessary stuff and don't sue them, they didn't do the test because of one in a million something. and if you have no liability as a doctor or hospital, half the tests done, to toby's point in america. and lower health care costs, but you wouldn't be getting the tests, this is not something you want, but protecting their own. and just because they could wrack up bill, another point, but in this particular case, if the government had tort reform, you'd ha

this notion that we're -- this commission is supposed to be for small businesses is laughable. look at the ice cream bar on cole valley, took two years to open. this is ridiculous. this planning department does not encourage small businesses, does not encourage any businesses and we're going to go here and include any business that actually employs young people or anyone with any economic background is very telling. thank you. vice president wu: thank you. any further public comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm a resident of the alamo square neighborhood. it's a little bit of a red herringo

to me it is laughable to think if your input cost is based on something that has to be subsidized at $776.per megawatt hour, that you can have the same sort of robust expansion of manufacturing and intensive energy enterprises that we're currently having now. gentlemen, would y'all challenge that? would you agree with that? what comments would you make? >> i would agree with you. emergency is about 1/3 of used in this country. in our manufacturing we use natural gas and electricity to a very large extent because we have to process metal and anneal the metal. and it's critical to our process. we need a comprehensive energy strategy, which includes oil, gas, coal, and you can throw in some of the others, solar, wind power. but -- >> unless that solar is subsidized, i would assume you would not be able to afford to use it. >> we would not be able to afford. >> unless the taxpayer wants to throw his or her money on the table, then frankly, the input costs would be way too high. >> the input costs would be way too high. if we had to pay that, we would be less competitive and there would b

this notion that we're -- this commission is supposed to be for small businesses is laughable. look at the ice cream bar on cole valley, took two years to open. this is ridiculous. this planning department does not encourage small businesses, does not encourage any businesses and we're going to go here and include any business that actually employs young people or anyone with any economic background is very telling. thank you. vice president wu: thank you. any further public comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm a resident of the alamo square neighborhood. it's a little bit of a red herring to have a conversation with the chamber of commerce and committee on jobs talking about multinational banks that suddenly can't afford to invest in a little extra time in san francisco to ensure that if they were going to have a location here in san francisco, that they are actually wanted and fit into a given neighborhood. what's interesting about the process we have so far is the amendment that planning staff is suggesting is one that we brought to you a year ago and brought up th

may not come into your point, paul, be violent, but i wonder if the notion of world peace is as laughable as the contestants in miss america saying they want world peace. is that even possible, this notion of world peace? >> i think the evidence shows it is possible, and it takes a while to go through all of the evidence, but a little bit of evidence, if you look at europe, one reason europe was able to conquer every continent was for several centuries, europe was the bloodiest place on earth. they have several centuries of nonstop warfare, and a lot of that was religious conflicts. can you imagine a war in western europe now? can you imagine germany and france or and the western country going to war with another western country? for a long time in human history, that was one of the bloodiest places on earth. if you look at america as an example, you were a virginian first and an american second, and now you are an american first and a virginian secondary if you tell people you are in virginia before being an american, they will call you unpatriotic. of we can shift to the national identi

now, to me, laughable to think that if your input cost is based upon something which has to be sub sigh diazed at $776 per hour, you could have the same robust manufacturing that we're having now. gentlemen, would you challenge that? agree? >> i would agree. energy as you know manufacturing about one-third of the energy produced in this country. in our manufacturing particularly, we use natural gas and lek trelectricity to a very extent because we have to process metal and yield the metal and it's critical to our process. we need a comprehensive energy strategy which includes oil, gas, coal and you can throw in some of the others, solar wind power, but most of the -- >> but unless that solar was subsidized, i assume you wouldn't be able to use it. so unless the taxpayers want to throw his or her money on the the table, the input costs would be too high. >> if we had to pay that, we would be less competitive and there would be less jobs. >> so we're trying to pick ourselves up by the boot straps if you will, taxing ourselves to use it at an affordable price. >> i think we need to develop

and for the government to actually think they could select employees is just as laughable. >> well, they are paying big bucks. apple could go to austin, texas. they could get an 830% tax rebate over ten years. that's a huge chunk of change for apples. >> once you let the feds in, they will dictate to you what they want to. that's up to apple. if you are getting the tax breaks and people getting the tax breaks say you have to do something to get them, you are not going to throw out the bathwater with the baby. are you going to accept it or not do it? what they ought to do is say we don't need any of that, we are going to go down there because it's a good economic move and we are going to hire whoever we want to hire and we are going to work the way we want to work. by the way, inherent in this is something i had logically weird, i find. that the government or somebody in the government knows who is disadvantaged and who isn't and can dictate to you what disadvantaged means. that's the part that's bad. >> and sally, the precedent i think could be a little bit concerning for some american c

their bill is, and i hope you folks do a good job writing about t it is laughable. think of that. half the benefits go to people making more than a mississiplli dollars a year. that's not a small business bill. they can call it that if they want. it doesn't mean it is a small business bill. >> it appears it is dead on arrival in the u.s. senate, the comments of the democratic leader in the senate and the democrats have control of that chamber and harry reid of nevada. >>> the senate is struggling to push forward with a bill to restructure the u.s. postal service. according to tom curry the senate lacked in a court on which a number of amendment it is would be allowed or offered with the postal service and it is heading for financial collapse writes tom curry and perhaps for a taxpayer bailout whether congress can invert this outcome and save it remains a question and the senate has been debating all this week as it considers a bipartisan agency to restructure the postal service. senator reed warning the senate on the floor those of you holding up this bill because don't like it, y

of laughable. well it refugee camp on the turkish side came under fire recently and turkey has hinted it may ask for nato help to protect its borders now do you think that could happen if the truce fails. i think the there is there was dangerous one because it is very close to syria and the very long border that is if you live there is in a crisis you know how there is a plane to form over of egypt between its interests it's good for there was its identity and its all saw. really politicized religion according to the kid who would continue to be a head of. all the attacks obviously india and i am afraid that they will try to move some forward or of c. my anybody inside the borders of syria and accordingly are going to syria should be very fair the way it's. continued playing because that in fact it's its identity. and it's the thought of the. think islam is what it is very bad manners all right finally mr maher very briefly if you can moscow calls on all sides and if you're in conflict a car so who

we would find that notion laughable. we need to look at it much, much more subtly, much more respectfully and to understand that women, sure overwhelmingly they tack for obama but that is-- >> look, if what you're saying that we on tv and cable tv are completely superficial and draw conclusions that are much more interesting if you did what we say in economics was an analysis, you wins hands down. i won't dispute with you on that score. but i would say there is a men's vote. right now people looking at the romney and obama race, i don't think these distinctions are meaningless. if you're saying there is a much more subtle way of understanding it, you're right. do you think there is a theological universe of female voters who felt that rick santorum had it right and those voters will be with romney and there will be those who will not be mitt romney. >> i think it's interesting. i hate snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. of course there is a black man's vote and a white man's vote. right there you made a distinctio

the notion that you have to spend $800,000 to exchange ideas is laughable. and perhaps criminal. and the part that gals me the most is the hypocrisy of gsa not even following its own damn rules. you are so quick to make everyone else follow the rules, and you can't follow your own rules. you have an event planner on staff. that will come as quite a surprise to most taxpayers. what will come as even more of a surprise is the fact that you didn't even use them. you paid somebody else to plan the event despite the fact that you have event planners at taxpayer salary. and the scouting trip. you know, mr. chairman, the tribes of israel sent 12 scouts into the promise land before they decided to invade. and gsa has to send 15 to las vegas to check out a hotel. do you not see the outrage in that? mr. robertson? do you see it? >> absolutely. this conference was outrageous. >> well, i'm not going to be a self congratulatory as other people are. i think the fact we're having a hearing is a loss. most people don't need a hearing to know that you don't spend other people's money the way that

going after activists and throwing them in jail and when corporations do similar things they face laughable fines or in some cases even debate of the government just yesterday david sirota was telling us about agag loss to prosecute activists or journalists or trying to expose illegal actions of factory farmers. there's a lot of states right now. basically criminal law was the act over infiltrating a factory farm taking pictures of factory farm went on authorized and this is in response to the consumer backlash of the superstructure of farming industry in light of revelations about the mistreatment of animals a century missions so that's just the latest trend in criminalizing the activists all turning a blind eye to the sins of corporations and one way you can fight this is by helping us in our efforts to figure out which congress person requested that environmental activist him to christopher be put in isolation we spoken about of the law on the show so i'm not going to go through the whole story again but you can learn more about instance in isolation which you have been released from now

questioning that we're seeing at these hearings i mean it's it's really something else and it's really laughable that it's only when it comes to this handler all. when this comes around that we suddenly see this passion emerge from our lawmakers personally i would love to see that thing kind of passion on t.v. on capitol hill when it comes to wall street right sure the banking executives made their way to washington for a few hearings but i could hardly pay to pay were lambasted in the same fashion and where the hell is the criminal investigation pretty guys were brought down the entire economy there was a whole lot more than a million dollars worth of taxpayer money at stake there but that is just one example of course and maybe that's the easier but you see there's another area where we see this kind of waste fraud abuse corruption on a daily basis and happening for years for decades we see reports commissions come to the same conclusions all the time and yet those are also just brushed off just as quick as another news story a little blip on the paper that doesn't deserve the same anger and y

scenario the truth is that's not the case hillary rosen by no means speaks for all liberals and it's laughable that c.n.n. even considers her a liberal considering that she used to head the r a n a and now does p.r. for corporations but the truth is that this is an issue that all women should be able to support each other on raising children being a mom that is worth and it's not anyone's place to judge and call it less worthy but the even bigger truth here is that this is another mainstream media distraction technique in the real issue is something iran himself said when he was trying to prove that he cares and knows so much more about women than the president us calculus. i was disappointed in listening to the president as he's saying republicans are waging the war on women. the real war on women is being waged by the president still the comet ninety two point three percent of all the jobs lost during the obama years have been lost by women ninety two point three percent. that's seems like a crazy number right more than ninety two percent of jobs lost and amongst women well the thing is the

it is laughable. host: jim tweets in -- another tweet -- our next call comes from randy from chapel hill, republican line. caller: hello, c-span. i just want to make 10 quick comments. we got all the intel for bin laden from guantanamo bay, water boarding, and secondly, i want a democrat to respond and tell me that they now agree the afghan war was legal, which we heard for, oh, six years when bush was in the white house that it was bush's illegal war. because that was an illegal strike in pakistan against a sovereign nation. host: kevin, independent, new orleans. caller: am i the only american out there who considers obama kaelin osama bin laden totally against everything america stands for as far as of the idea -- saddam hussein, we could have shot him down and that hole dead, and we didn't, and he killed a hot -- will let more people than bin laden. we brought him out and gave him a day in court and then we killed him. but the super seals could have gone in there and stunned him and all the rest of

on the one hand it is laughable, and then on the other hand it is a serious subject. in a way it is hipocritical. >> that is a brilliant point. if you look at the government as a private company, he would not invest there it. >> i take advantage of those all the time, and i am not rich. wait, did you say loophole? >> i don't know what he means by that. >> i don't know. >> we have this rule that if bill says it, move on. >> after i take advantage of them i move on. >> is this redistribution of wealth orie distribution of wealth? those are your two options. >> obviously it is a redistribution of wealth. you can call it what you want. it is the highest income earners in the country already pay a disproportionat share of the income taxes in this country. if you want to scale that up any further it is going to be called redistribution. i cannot wrap my mind around this whole crowd of rich people. you don't simply pay higher taxes. you can pay as much as you want. >> there is one thing to point out that the original proposal of this -- he didn't call it the buffet rule, oba

the romney campaign responded by calling the allegations ridiculous and laughable, calling a total disregardo violating the state's law. violating the law could mean up to, wow, three years in prison and romney could get hit with $10,000 fine. but i think he could swing it. >> i tell you what, 10,000 bucks? $10,000 bet? >> and there's more dirty republican going on. trying to disrupt the primaries for the recalling elections. the party is running fake democrats in the may 8th primaries for each of the six recall elections. it didn't work when they tried it last summer and i don't think it's going to work now. that state very focussed right now. let's go to john nichols, author of the book "uprising" by is doing very well. all right. to get in trouble for sandwiches and it's just unbleachable. is there any chance this could be a problem for the romney campaign? >> yes, there is. this evening i consulted with the former attorney general of wisconsin and i said, look, should we take this seriously? and former attorney general said, let's be clear about the facts. number one, this is a state law

president obama slamming republican congressman paul ryan's budget plan as laughable. prescription for decline. erasing any doubt he is now a full pledged candidate for re-election. >> it's a trojan horse disguiseed as deficit reduction plans. it's really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. thinly veiled social darwinism. >> it's not an accident he chose the day of the rye mare in ryan's home state to tie the budget to mitt romney who got a rare shout-out by name. >> governor romney said he hopes a similar version of this plan from last year would be introduced as a bill on day one of the presidency. >> ryan fired back he is getting used to being villainized. >> three certainty to my life. death, taxes ants bitter partisan attacks from president obama. he lacks an agenda to fix the country's problems. >> again they insisted it's not class warfare but a matter of math. republican budget numbers don't add up without raising taxes. g.o.p. noticed other matt. $5 trillion of debt added to this president's watch to the fact his budget was rejected 414-nothi

the idea that we're there to train the afghanis to fight is kind of laughable. >> that was always oneck me as an absurd argument. the afghanis have fought every major empire since the romans, they fight when they want to fight. what is lacking is the will. if they don't want to fight, there is a reason, and we will not persuade them otherwise. >> and one of the afghans that we're training to fight, in the middle of the night killing his fellowsfellow men. >> how do you justify to the soldier that he'll be the last person to die. you said there is a moral obligation to explain why we're doing this. >> the moral obligation to make this part of the campaign. that's what we're trying to do by staying on it. it's hard. >> neither party wants to talk about it. for the president, it's an uncertainty. he's not going to persuade anybody to vote for him by explaining. and the republicans are afraid of articulating with we should leave. >> 69% of americans who believe we should leave afghanistan, so it is beyond a left or right issue. >> well, the public is often ahead of the politicians, especi

nbc has reached new low attempting to conflate the nbc news division with that cable network is laughable. this is not a joke. i told you the other night that nbc news runs msnbc. it's the same manage. ment. i also told you they use the same people. andrea mitchell is the chief foreign affairs correspondent for nbc news. here's what she said yesterday on msnbc. >> i have the advantage or disadvantage as the case may be of watching newt gingrich and mitt romney at the same time on side-by-side screen. it's my job. somebody has to do it. >> bill: with us in the studio david maher who teaches media in politics. sally quinn ms. mitchell seems to be over the line here ms. quinn, disparaging an entire political party when her job is to cover the news objectively, am i wrong? >> yes. >> bill: tell me why. >> i don't see it that way at all. i don't understand what the fuss is. what is wrong with this? have you ever tried to watch two speeches at once and then try to report or speak about either one of them. it's impossible. when you say she had the advantage or disadvantage it's really hard to tr