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Conservative republicans feared donald trump would do when in office. cut deals with democrats and essentially freeze them out. you heard mick mill va, whats immediate challenge in front of me kind of guy, that had a lot to do with this. its not clear this will be a template necessarily for him going forward and not clear it will indice democrats to work with them on other issues. they have a lot of leverage. this deal has shown that. for this 15 minutes, week or two, it gets him to where he nee...

Its extremely popular but no one thinks that the american public by liking to look at baby sloths or puppies or panda bears or whatever, they dont think of that as reasonable. many leaders will say, well, sure, the voting public wants this but that is because the voting public is childish and they dont realize you have to cut spending to bring down this deficit so we will give them the medicine they need and they may want to look at the baby sloth all kay but they want to have their cake and eat...

Meant when they said not mitt romney, check this out a december poll in which 45e6 65% of those asked said president obama has a mandate to raise taxes. likewise that same month, 57% said we should let the bush taxes expire and raise taxes. last month on the other side of the equation on spending, 82% said do not cut medicare and more people said dont sut social security. 87% wanted social security left alone. except for foreign aid they werent into cutting much of anything at all. with all of t...

Romney, check this out a december poll in which 65% of those asked said president obama has a mandate to raise taxes. likewise that same month, 57% said we should let the bush taxes expire and raise taxes. last month on the other side of the equation on spending, 82% said do not cut medicare and more people said dont cut social security. 87% wanted social security left alone. except for foreign aid they werent into cutting much of anything at all. with all of this evidence showing the americans ...

Electorate wants. we remember the electorate wanted president obama over mitt romney and president obama won. they preferred more senate democrats over senate republicans. senate democrats are in control. the public also preferred house democrats over house republicans and yet house republicans remain in control. why? because in 2010 when they redrew the district seeds, they created for themselves very safe and often very skewed districts. so i think when they go home, particularly in the far ri...

Times there i assume is because its extremely popular but no one thinks that the american public by liking to look at baby sloths or puppies or panda bears or whatever, they dont think of that as reasonable. many leaders will say, well, sure, the voting public wants this but that is because the voting public is childish and they dont raealize you have to cut spending to bring down this deficit so we will give them the medicine they need and they may want to look at the baby sloth all kay but the...

Realities of sort of what the electorate wants. we remember the electorate wanted president obama over mitt romney and president obama won. they preferred more senate democrats over senate republicans. senate democrats are in control. the public also preferred house democrats over house republicans and yet house republicans remain in control. why? because in 2010 when they redrew the district seeds, they created for themselves very safe and often very skewed districts. so i think when they go ho...

Mr. boehner tweeted this morning americans want spending cuts, quote, are not in a mood to increase taxes. then he linked to this poll. this poll right here. just relieved yesterday. it is about the mandatory spending cuts in the sequester and whether people are noticing them yet and it does include this, quote, generally voters by 53 to 37 prefer to reduce the deficit by cutting programs and services than mostly by raising taxes. one saying, quote, voters are in no mood to increase taxes. that ...

Last two decades are like the difference between using galileos telescope one day and using hubble telescope today. an amazing achievement. >> derrick pitts, thanks so much. im ed schultz. ezra klein is filling in for rachel maddow tonight. >> thanks to you for joining us tonight. rachel has a very well-deserved night off. we begin tonight with election day. you remember election day when democrats put their plan for taxes and their plan for spending up against the republican plan for taxes and ...

Finally a poll saying fire up the weed whacker. go for the spending and no more taxes and fiscal cliff deal was enough. that would be very cheering news for republicans. you would understand exactly why speaker boehner is excited except if you read the poll. this poll, the poll that john boehner really wants you to see, is actually just like all of the other polls. now its true. voters would rather cut spending for energy than raise taxes and rather cut unemployment insurance than raise taxes wh...