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January 11, 2012
Through a bunch of quickie pro forma sessions called to order, a prayer, recite the pledge, bang the gavel and youre done. democratic leaders have been trying to press for business, right as the session is over. the gop has been turning off the mic. are we going to continue seeing these kind of games? its hilarious to watch but its not very good for the country, is it? >> no, it is really humorous to watch. yesterday i was in the house chamber and saw jim moran literally stand at a podium in fro...
January 11, 2012
23%. jon huntsman got 17% to finish in third place. rick santorum finished with 10% ahead of newt gingrich with 9%. rick perry had 1%. well, it was a big win romney needed to shore up the front-runner status. now hes the first republican to win both iowa and new hampshire this morning on cnn, romney turned attention to beating the president. >> youve got almost 2 million people that lost their job under this president. you have income thats dropped to 10% over the last four years. you ...
January 10, 2012
This time around, theyre disaffected. a lot of them go back to work or are the breadwinners and they pay the healthcare bill because they are care-takers for parents. they say the griping between the democrats and are republicans, enough. >> dana: i have an additional theory along the lines. i think it is the tone. the divisiveness and class warfare doesnt play well with women in general. >> greg: eric, i want to go to you and i want to introduce my favorite candidate for the presidential electi...
December 31, 2011
Because this is really something coming from the presidents office. retired general jack keane, however, explained to us his perspective from kabul tonight. >> the white house is pushing for reconciliation as a way to terminate our involvement in afghanistan much more rapidly. >> again, privately the military and the intelligence community somewhat skeptical of this idea, harris. >> harris: some people saying this is very controversial. why so from their perspective? >> well, its controversial f...
December 29, 2011
Huckabee won. they care more about the debt and the deficit and thats why they are starting to come around to mitt romney and less concerned about his religious background and social issues and want someone who can handle the economy and beat barack obama on that issue. >> there is an interesting note on that poll. it may under estimate ron paul support. it only surveyed likely gopรง voters, but given the enthusiasm of his supporters and one of the writers was talking about watching c-span and ...
December 26, 2011
Could be the new york mets i am sure. >> the night before the bin laden raid they made a joke about the terrorist leader at the white house correspondence dinner. he said he had a soft chill on msnbc, c span, the weather channel, cnn. where did bin laden have a talk show? cards up. stop chuckling. >> people think bin laden is hiding in the hin beau curb. you notice every day for 4-5 he hosted a show on c span. >> he got it right. one question to go. very, very exciting tonight. >> they have a pr...
December 26, 2011
Could be the new york mets i am sure. >> the night before the bin laden raid they made a joke about the terrorist leader at the white house correspondence dinner. he said he had a soft chill on msnbc, c span, the weather channel, cnn. where did bin laden have a talk show? cards up. stop chuckling. >> people think bin laden is hiding in the hin beau curb. you notice every day for 4-5 he hosted a show on c span. >> he got it right. one question to go. very, very exciting tonight. >> they have a pr...
December 26, 2011
Could be the new york mets i am sure. >> the night before the bin laden raid they made a joke about the terrorist leader at the white house correspondence dinner. he said he had a soft chill on msnbc, c span, the weather channel, cnn. where did bin laden have a talk show? cards up. stop chuckling. >> people think bin laden is hiding in the hin beau curb. you notice every day for 4-5 he hosted a show on c span. >> he got it right. one question to go. very, very exciting tonight. >> they have a pr...
December 23, 2011
When it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks." paul was asked about the newsletters by cnn. >> i didnt write them. i disavow them. thats it. >> so you read them but you didnt do anything about it at the time? >> i never read that stuff. ive never read -- i was probably aware of it ten years after it was written. >> these things are pretty incendiary. you know, the -- >> well, because of people like you. >> no, no, no, no. come on. some of the stuff was very incendiary. and yo...
December 23, 2011
Checks." paul was asked about the newsletters by cnn. >> i didnt write them. i disavow them. thats it. >> so you read them but you didnt do anything about it at the time? >> i never read that stuff. ive never read -- i was probably aware of it ten years after it was written. >> these things are pretty incendiary. you know, the -- >> well, because of people like you. >> no, no, no, no. come on. some of the stuff was very incendiary. and you know, saying that in 1993 the israelis were responsible ...