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Was talking to dan on the weekend. they were burned as you indicated from predicks early on with stimulus. so wildly off in what was the imployed promise that this stimulus would keep frus reaching 8%. 8.8% that they have had trouble ever since. so that is not going happen again. they understand is that rumor indicated with growth of 3% the job recovery will be really slow. and i think one thing unstate sthad we have had a significant spike in oil prices up to $87. if you think about what happen...

Eyebrows to think there were 13% of the self-identified tea party adherents who were democrats but youre saying given the focus on deficit that thats the concern what youre finding there just in conservative democrats. >> depends on your focus. if youre thinking do you associate with the tea party as opposed to the issue of deficit and spending, i think what you see whats coalescing this group is concern around these two issues. >> is it fair to identify these folks at disaffected republicans? t...

Because youre probably not going to feel it by november. >> well, look, i think november is a long time away. i think if you ask people a year out from the 20 08 election who was going to be president or ask people a year out from the massachusetts special election who was going to be the senator from massachusetts i dont think a lot of people would have gotten that right of i think democrats are going to come back and continue to do what theyve been doing. first of all the health care bill is a...

Variable pay. times are great you get paid a lot. times are bad, you dont get paid much. unfortunately elected officials at the municipal level made promises that ratchet up regardless whether the economy is doing good or poorly and theyre not sustainable and nothing to be done about that. >> will union workers have to choose between jobs and maybe taking some pay cuts? >> yeah, look, i think in fairness theyre going to have to take their lumps like everybody else and i agree with pats comment. ...

Takeovers and questionable stimulus projects that so far have not delivered the democrats promised results. and new members of congress are most vulnerable. >> many of the democrats elected in 08 and 08 have taken unpopular votes against their constituents and are feeling the heat back home for ignoring the will of their constituents or ignoring what fits in their districts. >> recent threats against lawmakers are a mainly concern for law en for the and democrats see it as a positive for them, p...

Progressives, institution of progressives, they understand the need to compromise. theyre willing to accept watered down legislation if it means getting victory. the problem, again, is the process by can you do it. is the process so solid it sort of turns people off? again, look, for instance, labor and health care debate. labor gave up a ton of exsis tax, the public option and able to secure a victory in exchange in form of health care bill. when you do things like offshore drilling, the questi...

Identify anti-abortion extremism as anti-government extremism. we associate that with the early and mid90s which is when that tape you just saw was filmed. but in the last 18 months since president obama took office. >> a white sprem cyst shot and killed a guard at a holocaust museum, an irs office had a plane flown into it and killed a man. and a tennessee white supremacist convicted of plotting to kill president obama near the end of the presidential campaign in 08, roeder, and th threats of p...

That would be a sweep that would include many members. democrats lose a lot of the seats that mccain carried. it was unlikely to win in the first place. they are more rural and more conservative. >> will this be a white persons election? >> all old peoples election. . >> it will be a majority election. the newer younger people in 2008 will be nowhere to be seen. >> why? why wont they vote? >> the loyalty is to president obama. their excitement is for him. >> there is a fertile area for the pres...

Of journalism compiling the salaries at the largest trade groups rallying our congress. how much does that pay when we come out to big banks and big drugs, big unions. you pick them. the men and women who have a in shaping the laws that govern our lives, in some cases they are the ones that write the critical portions of the laws that create the loopholes and tax carve outs that give them the money at your expense. the top earner, the now retired head of the association, they do grit at our expe...

Policy hes the direct opposite in my mind. reagan created 21 million new jobs. reagan ended the cold war. if hes the opposite of reagan we going to get the opposite results. we are not going to have peace, prosperity, opportunity, shining city on the hill we are not going to be viewed as the worlds sole super power. what happens from here? what do you see throughout his presidency? do you think the country is going to buy into and be convinced by his ideology? i see america rejecting him. >> i t...