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Were not paying for that either. both sides have a deficit problem. >> john, if the tea partiers get elected, are they ever going to vote for speanding bill, and ar they ever going to vote for funding for either war? lots of people are opposed to the war in afghanistan. this is something that you can be happy about because the republican party are going to have to deal with that. >> you mentioned the tea party. thanks to he hadded and gloria. when we come back, what you might call a civil war in...

Weakness? of reaching out at a time when they are going in the wrong direction? >> i think there is a lot about bill clintons legacy that barack obama is going to be turning to more and more, especially as his attention moves from expanding the got to shrinking it and solving the deficit problem. >> bret: charles, vice president biden out again saying theyre on track to create or save 3.50 million jobs. >> as usual, a number invented out of nowhere. im not sure anyone believes it. we were told $...

For what you need in business. and in life. regions. regions. its time to expect more. first, outgoing senator judd gregg the new hampshire republican on "hardball" repeating that old feel-good story that the t.a.r.p. bank bailout made you money. >> the american taxpayer had actually made money off the money that we put into the system to try to stabilize it. weve made about $17 billion off of t.a.r.p. weve gotten almost all the money back that we put into the financial system. we havent gotte...

Democrats stupid idea instead of having a republican say well pay for unemployment benefits or democrat, i dont care, by cutting one of our own stupid ideas so that at least we end the stalemate of fingerpointing which is convenient to the political parties, but as you and i both know postpones or ultimately denies a solution. >> well, dylan, thats a good idea, but the debate has been whether or not we will establish a precedent of paying for unemployment compensation thats extended, and the spe...

More. >> bret: is this a sign of weakness? of reaching out at a time when they are going in the wrong direction? >> i think there is a lot about bill clintons legacy that barack obama is going to be turning to more and more, especially as his attention moves from expanding the got to shrinking it and solving the deficit problem. >> bret: charles, vice president biden out again saying theyre on track to create or save 3.50 million jobs. >> as usual, a number invented out of nowhere. im not sure a...

>> okay, lets talk about the national debt. its clearly out of control. we had the third largest single day increase ever, more debt in one day than we had in all of the year 2007. so, elliss, im going to give you the first chance to talk about it. tell me why the debt under obama is a good thing here? >> governor, debt is not an inherently bad thing. when you have a house mortgage, didnt that allow you to do things-- >> higher than my income. >> i bet your house mortgage was more than you made ...

You know, sovereign concerns reflected in credit rating agency concerns, but also concerns from international -- corporate international investment. also, theres a domestic angle to this. british consumer confidence and british business confidence, you know, i think had this black cloud hanging over it, which is we know tlds this huge debt problem, we know theres this huge deficit problem and there was a bit of a drum roll, at some point its got to be dealt with. i wanted to say this is the plan...

Talk about the national debt. out of control. we had more debt in one day than all of the year 2007. ill give you the first chance to talk about this. tell me why the debt underobama is a good thing. >> debt is not inherently bad. you have a mortgage. >> its not 20 times my income. >> i bet your house mortgage was more than you made in a year and that was the best thing you and your wife ever did. >> mike: one thing to have debt that you can pay for. right now with the united states, its letting...

The rich have gotten by. part of deficit problem is because of bush tax cuts. lets take a little bit of that back and make the system a little bit more fair and we can all win in this process. >> one way that you have a big impact is in elections and with union money and those that support the economy, tom donahue was on the daily rundown with chuck and savannah. and this is what he had to say about the business expenditures and union expenditures in the aftermath of the supreme court decision o...

One of things they were asking about is raising the retirement age and social security benefits age to 63. what would be wrong with that? >> first of all, i love ruth, but her column is a very simplistic and very, very shallow analysis of that whole conversation that we had. it was an in our and a half long. >> we both love ruth, but her point is that you are not looking at the deficit side and you want to put the burden on the rich. >> in short term, we dont have a deficit problem. its the long...