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Previous time, it was a call to go forward on the basis of these values, the values that we care about one another, that we work for one another, that we stand together and that there has to be fundamental fairness of the society. i think thats why the speech will endure. i think its an indication of where were going to go in the next few months. and i have to add one other thing, i know good lines when i hear them. instinctively and innately, i wish i had written them. >> i love your jealousy, ...

Prospective, except for lincolns, of course. i thought this was a great speech. i thought it was much better than his first inaugural. it was forth right in setting out a vision of a kind of government that obama wants. in a way, it was, like, it was kind of a liberal version of reagans first inaugural where he disparaged government. this was a firm defense of a word he dared to use. of clengtive action. and bill the way, that one drove them nuts at fox news. >> well, bob, the president referenc...

As the economy and the population gets larger, were going to, by definition, spend more. i was arguing with someone today, i was pointing out that in order to stabilize the debt, we need $1.2 trillion over the next ten years. thats just the way the math works out given these recent deals. theyre saying one trillion, thats a big number. its a half of percent of the the gdp over the next year. >> bob schrumm, let ees talk at the politics of this. if the house republicans are in this, then im here ...

Optimistic about the 113th because even if they do try to do things through regular order, these same underlying dynamics are still governing whats happening in congress right now. >> one of the things thats troubling, the national journal has done a great job in documenting this by taking the ideological temperature of congress for the last 30 years, and they find that every democrat, ill focus on the senate, every democrat in the senate is more liberal than every republican. every republican m...

Well, hey, were thinking about it both the democrats and republicans not doing their best to create jobs. you bring back the $1 trillion and get some people hired. the money has to come back. and the president has to say, i want it back and want it back now. >> i want you as secretary of the treasury. >> ill take that job in a flash. for more on the politics of the economy, lets turn to long-time democratic consultant, bob schrumm. it sounds like rethe and democratic old-style politics have me...