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Because if he doesnt sign it, it -- they expire. >> right. >> the other end, theyre going to have to raise the debt ceiling again. and there the presidents going to have to go to the republicans who are not going to want to raise the debt ceiling. and so sadly, mika, looks like we have to get through another election year without any real -- >> movement. significant -- >> on the budget, on the deficit, on taking care of the long-term debt. >> the long-term health of this country. >> long-term he...

That will roll into arizona and michigan and super tuesday. obviously its taken longer than a lot of us would like, but thats the process. and hell be better able to handle the general then. >> jeff, lets talk about from republican politics to the budget, whats your take on it? >> well, i wish wed have a real budget that takes into account the problems we have with entitlement programs and discretionary spending. we were headed toward a fiscal cliff long before barack obama took the wheel. lets ...

Know that. >> and just -- i want to put a period on the end of my thoughts with peggy. the bottom line is that this change, peggy, i dont want to confuse you or anybody else, it is, again, a distinction without a difference. and i would believe if you just looking at it logically this could be even more offensive to catholics because what youre doing is spreading the burden to all catholics because now all catholics are paying higher premiums, even if its slight, but if they do cost -- if contra...

Of the recovery. the recovery is gaining steam. i know ben bernanke was abject saying, look, we cannot let this go back, slip back to the way it was. bernanke is deeply rooted in 1937. he remembers when you had a recovery and then the recovery died. i dont think the spendings wrong. i do think that the revenue increases simply never get passed. the republicans will never allow anything that increases revenue. >> theyre going to put their own budget out i think in the next couple of days, as well...

Presidential candidate potentially the nominee has kind of the same problem on this issue, doesnt he? mitt romney? im just saying. >> i dont know, did he enact a health care plan when he was governor? >> i think he might have. >> and by the way -- >> but underlying the point that peggy said yesterday, peggy you said at the end of the day, this hhs controversy may be remembered because it reignites the debate over obama care as republicans -- >> i sure hope so. >> and forgive me, government feckl...

Your choice of words, mischievous. come on, peggy. >> what -- >> no, i would never accuse you of that. but -- >> i dont understand mischief. >> what? >> it is political mischief. >> what? >> when you take -- >> trying to get -- >> when you take a serious political issue and put it forward, break it apart in a way that is not true that may excite people who you think deep in your heart are sort of uninformed. >> okay. >> and that -- if the white house is turning this into an argument about contra...

All. e.j. and i would agree that sometimes we agree on very big essential things. we would also agree that it was really a relief the past three weeks to have conservative catholics, liberal catholics, progressive, catholics in the middle, all agreeing on one thing. it was so -- >> doesnt happen often. >> no, it was beautiful. now, look, we have survived as a church 2,000 years disagreeing on things. weve always had internal wars, theyll continue. im not a sanguine as e.j. is about the president...

The washington post e.j. dionne. great table we have. >> good to be with you. >> great to have you all around. lets dive right in. yesterday we were on "meet the press" talking about -- by the way, tom brokaws mikes on. >> hes on deck. >> we could listen to his -- >> we want to save tom from -- the call to his bookky. anyway, e.j., with business taken care of. i still hear that low baritone voice, take toms mike down. e.j., lets now after the second attempt move to what we were talking about yes...

Its becoming the theater of which all locals are fighting things out from turkey, iran, to iraq and everybody else. and its way, way too soon to take that step. >> and by the way, i know there will be some anti-obama people that will be shocked, shocked that i would say this. but you can look at libya and see some things that happened there that helped us. by "leading from behind." which means getting out of our own way and letting the arab league condemn libya before we go in with bombs. here w...

It went wrong 10, 15 years ago, hid whats happening, what went wrong in spain. we still have a chance. weve got to take it. >> yep. >> we can talk about this because greek lawmakers voted to approve tough new austerity measures. a plan that triggered the countrys worst rioting in years. look at this video. the deal would slash $4 billion from the budget and call for a harsh pension cuts and elimination of 15,000 jobs. it paved the way for greece to receive about $170 billion in loans from foreig...