Alan Simpson Slams Fellow Republicans For Lack Of Compromise

Rich people do what's best for the rich. Beside that they think this is another way to point out how Obama has failed.

I will back a tx increase when someone trust is holding the check book. I will not back a tax increase for a president t wants to cut back SS and pay for abortions. Period.

He's a crotchety old dude but what he says about the art of compromise in politics is so true. The control of the Republican party by the fanatical "my way or the highway" types has doomed any progress.

Class warfare? Come on Ron you are smarter than this! Obama has so failed……he simply cannot run on his record.

It is not President Obama who wants to cut Social Security. You need to check out the Ryan Plan that Mitt Romney wholeheartedly reports. The Tax increase that is proposed is for those making a million dollars or more so unless you make over a million you won't need to worry about that. You will only have to worry about your Tax money going to the care of unwanted babies due to lack of birth control availability. There are going to be an awful lot of babies born to young single Mom's so get prepared,Paula, to pay for those Babies.

It is not President Obama who wants to cut back on Social Security. It is Mitt Romney who whole heartedly supports the Ryan Plan which entails doing just that. The tax increase that has been proposed by the current administration is for those who make over one million dollars, so unless you are in that economic bracket it will not personally affect you. I would be more concerned about having to pay for all of the babies that are going to be born due to the inaccessibility of birth control if planned parenthood is denied government funding. Available birth control will decrease the chances of an unwanted pregnancy and therefore decrease the number of abortions. I agree with you, the more an abortion can be prevented the better it will be for all including the mental state of those who have to make such a heart wrenching choice.

Please tell me where you are getting your information?

WHY – AND HOW – IN THE HE! IS ONE PERSON – AND AN UNELECTED ONE A THAT! – ALLOWED TO HAVE SUCH TOTAL CONTROL OVER AN ENTIRE PARTY, AND IN ESSENCE THE ENTIRE NATION? I saw him interviewed on 60 minutes Grover Norquist is not only the most arrogant SOB on the plantet… he is a complete sociopath!

WHY – AND HOW – IN THE HE! IS ONE PERSON – AND AN UNELECTED ONE A THAT! – ALLOWED TO HAVE SUCH TOTAL CONTROL OVER AN ENTIRE PARTY, AND IN ESSENCE THE ENTIRE NATION? I saw him interviewed on 60 minutes Grover Norquist is not only the most arrogant SOB on the plantet… he is a complete sociopath!

WHY – AND HOW – IN THE HE! IS ONE PERSON – AND AN UNELECTED ONE A THAT! – ALLOWED TO HAVE SUCH TOTAL CONTROL OVER AN ENTIRE PARTY, AND IN ESSENCE THE ENTIRE NATION? I saw him interviewed on 60 minutes Grover Norquist is not only the most arrogant SOB on the plantet… he is a complete sociopath!

Have you read the Ryan plan? Read it. The info about tax increases for those making a million dollars or more was revealed by President Obama himself many times, including his most recent speech to the Nation…did you see it? The availability of birth control decreasing unwanted pregnancies..is well…just common sense.

Stupid old rino. You got voted out because we think your ideas suck. Go retire and STFU!

You're right but Romney? please

Also the right has spent all their time and energy since Obama took office to try to make him fail

Paula, Obama has compromised on women's health issues, and caved to the so-called "pro-life" faction which advances your express concerns, with regard to whether or not the 'gubmint' will 'pay for abortions'. It won't. As far as Social Security is concerned, Mitt Romney supports gutting it, stashing the cash overseas, and leaving the program by the side of the road, just like he did with companies he 'managed' at Bain Capital. Anyone who votes against their own self-interest because they don't even know what that is, is probably Republican. Have fun with that.

Republican USED TO mean "Fiscally conservative, socially moderate, and educationally liberal." You're not one. Do you HAVE ideas, or do you simply get your jollies decrying those of others? Do you even know what 'politics' means? Go back to civics class, and STFU yourself, Bob.

They all act like a bunch of babies. I think they should be required to live in DC, mingle and get to know each other like it once was. Ron…..its not a party line thing with me and how I feel about the President. I think he has no idea what he is doing. He just wasn't qualified for the position to begin with and it has showed from day one.

So I guess Romney will gladly pay for the unwanted babies in the country right? He will continue WIC, school lunch programs, insurance for children, food stamps, daycare costs for parents that work? No, he will cut those programs and all the babies you saved from abortion will live and die in poverty. That's real pro life isn't it?

Kathy Utz For some people, 'pro-life' means 'punish the sluts', and has nothing to do with 'life'. They tend to ignore the fact that life continues after leaving the birth canal, or that women are people at all. For some in the so-called 'pro-life' faction, women are nothing more than a life-support system for a uterus, are wholly responsible for unwanted pregnancy, and should be punished for consenting to (and / or enjoying) sex for any reason other than procreation. They don't believe contraception should be legal, either – since it encourages slutty behavior…but of course, most will only admit to 'not wanting to pay for it'.
Just sayin'.

Obama, has done a good job of making himself look bad

Well after Bush anyone including hillary if she won the primary would have been president

ahh your right, lets just kill those bastards

translation, sure he sucks, and we will just use the Bush excuse

excuse? amazing how short some people's memory has become

Birth control is fine, but abortion is not. This is the president who said if a budget wasn't agreed on, SS and SSDI recipients wouldn't get their cheques, but the welfare recipients would.

Understand this: we have seen the GOP's playbook when it comes to national economic crisis. If they are in power, give everything to the rich and to the corps….if they are out of power, vilify whoever is in the White house relentlessly, block admin appointments and any advance in opposition agenda, swerve hard right socially and behind the scenes continue to do whatever they can foor the rich and the rich alone

And Paula….the GOP has HATED Medicare and SS from their inceptions. In the case of SS, they have wanted that money to go to private sector investments (and they do not care if wall street is a casino) for decades, in the case of Medicare, they just simply do not want it. As for your abortion comment, it is nonsense and you do not know what yoou are saying. I think you have Faux News on the brain.

we pay good money so soldiers can go overseas and kill little arab children so why shouldnt some of our tax money go to abortions? You ppl are all a bunch of fucking hippocrites

Wendy Strachan Lloyd Do any of these idiots even know or read what the Ryan plan is ??? How can anyone, no matter what party vote for something like that?? unless of course you could care less about anyone in this country except to just say your a Republican & anything goes regardless!!!!!!!

Lissa Boren DO YOU READ OR LISTEN TO THE CANDIDATES???????????????????/

they are operating like a cult right now, they want to demonize anyone called a democrat, they are so incensed by the fact that they lost the election that they can't see straight & then by a black president, they are rotten to the core & could care less about the state of this nation, their only interest is financial & power!!!!! Norquist s/b brought uip on charges , what power does he really have that's legal????