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Thats a catastrophe. the historical barometer for a president being reelected is about 100 in the consumer confidence index. so its easy to see the trouble mr. obama is facing. in the face of that, the committed left media is demonizing their opposition conservative republicans. >> i think i can go back to the high priest or the high priest of this tea party caucus. michele bachmann. i think she is a true believer. i want to show you something now on oreilly, which is where you go when you want ...

House republicans owe their majority to the 2010 elections and some are pushing for a tea party style showdown with president obama over taxes and spending and a possible government default, but looking ahead to 2012, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell floated a plan that gives president obama a unilateral authority to raise the debt ceiling and his spending mess. i refuse to help barometer to get reelection marching republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy. a ...

So this is this is a really good barometer for whats happening throughout the country. independent voters left democrats in the 2010 congressional election. we have them in 2006. we had them in 2008. these are the bucks county democrats that you talk about so much. >> i know all about them. >> and they came back to the democrats in new york 26 and thats why we are going to continue creating this contrast. >> i buy completely your argument, i dont completely agree with the democrats on everything...

26 and we won and medicare won. >> now, did kathy hochul, who just wont race, she is the congresswoman-elect now, did she do what you told her to do? is this, in other words, a template, a role model, for what you could do in winning back, say 25 seats next year, 24 seats enough to get control of the house again? >> she didnt do what we told her to do she did what she wanted to do one of the reasons she got into this race is she couldnt stomach these republican plans to terminate medicare while ...

Stands? >> the. >> the debt ceiling doesnt pass. what they are told i dont know. look at the 87 freshmen to see where they stand on it as a barometer of what the congress will do. i dont think it will pass but they have days to work on this. >> eric: we have to let you go in a second. did any of the freshmen tea party that came in vote for the continuing resolution? >> i dont know which ones are tea party but there are 20 freshmen that voted no on the continuing resolution. there are conservativ...

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Mother. because your mother -- i would suspect, is among the 63% who, if polled, tell us, tell our pollsters, 63% say the country is going in the wrong direction. only 28% -- thats the second worst wrong track number and thats a really key barometer for the mood of the country. and the presidents job rating, 49%, thats really no different, one point different than last time. congresss job rating also sort of in the dump, only 20% approve, 73% disapprove. youve got a lot of angry people out there...

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