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It comes as the governor pat quinn has proposed a 1% income tax. the "chicago sun times" reports the governor only has 45 votes and he needs 60. and the cleveland school district is making a dramatic and controversial budget cut by eliminating 773 teaching and classroom support jobs by the end of the school year. this effectively means that the student per teacher ratio would double. the school district claims that the teacher cuts would alleviate the $52 million projected deficit for next yea...

Administration would benefit. this is like suggesting that people who defend criminals pro bono are somehow tainted by those criminalsçó crimes themselves. >> thats exactly what its like. we have ted olson and others telling us that today. i think a lot of folks who worked in government sectors, lawyers who have worked at top levels of the former bush administration, both bush administrations actually, sitting there thinking, what is going on? what is she doing? at the same time, though, liz c...

Darrell, as the sitting politician in this conversation and the person who has the most acute sense of the current political environment, what are your thoughts of opening up the primaries? >> well, i think eliminating, if you will, a first round is probably a very good idea. most countries around the world will have two rounds of voting. californias open primary is a little more flawed. if you get 75% in the first round, you still have to go to a second round. theres a little bit of a question ...