Amanda Terkel On 'The Ed Show' Discusses Debt Limit (VIDEO)

House Republicans held a vote on Tuesday regarding whether or not to raise the nation's debt limit, with 318 votes against the measure.

Huffington Post Senior Political Reporter Amanda Terkel appeared on "The Ed Show" Tuesday night to discuss the debt ceiling. Terkel explained that Republicans were trying to both reinforce their message that spending cuts should be paired with the debt limit, and to "give some of their more conservative members, maybe who were elected by tea party activists, some political cover."

Terkel also said that Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) "absolutely had a valid point, no one expected this to pass... Hoyer was wise in telling his members, 'vote how you want to.'"

When asked if Democrats are worried that the White House may agree to some Medicare cuts, Terkel said, "They are trying to cut one trillion dollars in spending. You don't get there just by piddling at the edges with NPR and Planned Parenthood. I think there's a lot of concern that this will happen." Terkel went on to discuss how Republicans have tied the debt ceiling to budget talks.

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Comments

[lel737]

05:27 PM on 06/01/2011

liberal baggers/progressives/socialist...how many names to these commies have?

[lel737]

05:20 PM on 06/01/2011

I thought MSNBC went dead.

[Cameron Hodge]

04:48 PM on 06/01/2011

Amanda is my favorite. She's also pretty :)

[tdpubs]

04:23 PM on 06/01/2011

Everything is not on the table if you cannot allow revenue increases to be on the table. It's like me saying that my employees will have to take a cut in pay because I refuse to market my business services. Why the heck is revenue increases not part of balancing the budget? If my employees must survive in order for me to get them to work and for my company to prosper, my best inclination is to make them happy to get the best performance from them and grow my business. The country must be successful and competitive with the rest of the world. If we become a third world nation, we cannot be successful and safe as a nation.

[Ghoaster]

04:23 PM on 06/01/2011

This is a show for sure.We're through the ceiling folks. $2 million a minute and counting. What I am really interested in, is how are they legally paying for everything at the moment?

[chaucer1]

04:20 PM on 06/01/2011

I wish Roberts had his own show, but when does Ed return? Or does he?

[Jawbey]

03:51 PM on 06/01/2011

COME BACK ED, COME BACK!

[MaineCon]

03:06 PM on 06/01/2011

Nancy Pelosi voted against raising the debt ceiling? Waserman Schultz? Steny Hoyer? No kidding?

Looks like the conservatives are winning this agrument.

[Robert Terry]

03:43 PM on 06/01/2011

Oh yes they are winning the agrument with the voters. Everyone know the Chicago team is out of control adn they want it stopped.

[lel737]

05:31 PM on 06/01/2011

MaineCon ...good point! these liberal baggers actually believe the baloney they talk.

[Robert Cantor]

02:58 PM on 06/01/2011

Amanda Rocks!

[troberts1943]

02:40 PM on 06/01/2011

The Democrats should let people know that the debt limit was raised seven times during the Bush years while the GOP had one or both houses in Congress.

[sdcloke]

02:24 PM on 06/01/2011

I don't know why they touted this as an Amanda Terkle interview, it was Sally Kohn who was knowledgeable and spot on!

[DavidinRaleigh]

02:23 PM on 06/01/2011

What about expecting "reasonable sense" from the Democrats. As currently defined, Medicare/Medicaid as we know it will end in the next few years and unfortunately how it ends can be pre-defined as the Republicans are trying to do, or come crashing down and take our economy with it as did the financial mess did in 2007/08. Why not start the conversation by saying Medicare as we know it is coming to an end, to save it we must define how it will work in the future so lets all define a plan, our plan calls for _____ ... lets not push off the conversation because the Democrats and Washington wizards don't want to make tough decisions.

[Robert Cantor]

03:08 PM on 06/01/2011

no

[kimota]

02:21 PM on 06/01/2011

LOL! Everything's on the table, except the things they say are absolutely off the table.

[seawillow]

02:16 PM on 06/01/2011

Put these people to work. Get Republicans to find 20% in revenue increases and Democrats to find 20% in spending cuts. This solves the problem.

[silvester1]

02:47 PM on 06/01/2011

I like that solution. HOwever, it makes too much sense, so it'll never happen.

[Robert Cantor]

03:08 PM on 06/01/2011

The R(z) will say 'cut taxes will raise the economy' contrary to reality.

[gman87]

02:05 PM on 06/01/2011

Yawn...zzzzzzzzzzz