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Thats never going to fly. >> i raised the same point yesterday. youre exactly right. how would he factor this in? >> maybe paul ryan doesnt understand the process. who knows. meanwhile, the ranking democrat on the budget committee says the ryan plan doesnt contain any olive branches. >> this doesnt budge an inch. an uncompromising approach because its a totally lopsided approach. >> so, the republicans arent going to budge at all in the house and they of course, can stop everything. its just wha...

>> i raised the same point yesterday. youre exactly right. how would he factor this in? >> maybe paul ryan doesnt understand the process. who knows. meanwhile, the ranking democrat on the budget committee says the ryan plan doesnt contain any olive branches. >> this doesnt budge an inch. an uncompromising approach because its a totally lopsided approach. >> so, the republicans arent going to budge at all in the house and they of course, can stop everything. its just what weve been talking about ...

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To what republican senator johnny isaacson of georgia had to say. >> i felt like the house should have gone ahead and passed speaker boehners bill because it addressed the subject, and we would still be in negotiations, and the presidents statement is right. no one wants taxes to go up on the middle class. i dont want them to go up on anybody, but im not in the majority in the united states senate. >> senator isakkson saying that he wishes that plan b had moved forward. however, that didnt get l...

Complete waste of time and i dont know yet speaker is bringing this forward. if it had the merit of at least giving his members some political cover so that he being give them a harder deal later, i would say fine, but i dont know how it accomplishes that. its going nowhere in the senate. so it will not increase his bargaining position and if it doesnt increase leverage within its own conference, 14s, were just wasting time and thats a shame because we dont have much team left and we need to avo...

More than a million, if, doesnt he count the votes before he goes in and offers something like that? >> a little of both and doesnt actually hurt the speakers negotiating position that much if his caucus revolts. now its bad if at the end it is a make-or-break deal. what he is doing now, how about this? how about a million dollars? he will keep coming back to them. it doesnt kill him now. it strengthens his bargaining position with the president if in fact his caucus says were not there because ...

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