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Social security benefits which they say would save another $200 billion. that will be interesting to fiddle with that one. later this afternoon the white house rejected the boehner offer saying in part, quote, the republican letter released today does not meet the test of balance. in fact, it actually promises to lower rates for the wealthy and sticks the middle class with the bill. their plan includes nothing new and provides to details on which deductions they would eliminate, which lope holes...

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Thats probably why were in gettysburg and not in illinois today. they dont probably think they can win here. the late polls show he is down double digits in illinois, and we dont know what he will say tonight tonight, but its also the land of the lincoln. i can point out that theres a race in louisiana. they hope to rebound there perhaps and get a victory there. its probably more important than todays victory for romney perhaps is on april 3rd we have three races. d.c., maryland, and wisconsin. ...

Virus over the past year arso, so that nullified another way the world was trying to stop iran from getting a nuclear bomb, and we cant forget, in contest, 24 hours ago, there was a bomb that exploded in thailand, officials now believe that bomb was destined to attack the israeli embassies or israeli assets somewhere inside thailand. just on monday, we had two more bombs go off against israeli targets, one in the country of georgia, another in the country of india. the israelis flow blaming iran...

Jim demint said the nlrb has obligation to protect right of workers to join or not join unions but under the leadership of president obama appointee, the nlrb is a tool of the union bosses. analysts say the unions looking for a face-saving way to back down. >> the idea of charging someone for jobs doesnt look good. >> one republican called a suit nothing more than a shameless campaign to bully an american employer saying the nlrb should protect right of workers not bolster the bargaining positio...

Something or not, you have to come back and sell it to the house of representatives. it isnt quite as easy as what you might want and what the president might want. >> if we are going to come to agreement theres going to be plenty of difficulty on both sides of the political aisle. but, i think it is time to do as much cutting as we can. otherwise, our debt is going to consume our entire economy. it is not good. >> greta: has the president given you a specific number? >> no, he has not. >> greta...

Borrow more money. obviously you cant get off it cold turkey because we cant cut the budget by 40% in one week. but i believe that the republicans are on exactly the right track of opposing additional taxes, supporting spending cuts and demanding constitutional reform of a balanced budget amendment with spending caps on the federal government in return for a debt limit increase. >> right. but the tea party and michele bachmann, did you see the interview? >> absolutely not. thats a good bargainin...

Borrow more money. obviously you cant get off it cold turkey because we cant cut the budget by 40% in one week. but i believe that the republicans are on exactly the right track of opposing additional taxes, supporting spending cuts and demanding constitutional reform of a balanced budget amendment with spending caps on the federal government in return for a debt limit increase. >> right. but the tea party and michele bachmann, did you see the interview? >> absolutely not. thats a good bargainin...

Chris stierwalt, digital politics.com. the week started out good, lots of talk about compromise, bipartisan meeting. now where are we? >> well, maybe kumbaya has broken down in the second verse. you hit it on the head, democrats and republicans are still miles apart on the question of what to do with the tax rates set to expire at the end of the year. now, what house democrats are going to do today in all likelihood is pass an extension of only some of the current tax rates, which means that tho...