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Gods name happened here? these people have been victimized. kids on school buses have been victimized, hours waiting to get through traffic. give us some answers. never got an answer from mr. baroni. to me, the whole port authority needs to be investigated. there is a bigger issue here involved. i have to pay tolls, you have to pay tolls to go over the george washington bridge. these people are unrepenting for what theyve done to those folks who have to shell out $8 every time they go over the b...

Functioning. as political matter it doesnt help republicans in 1995 when they had the government shut down. im not sure why they want to try to go down that path again. >> a strategy in 95 that backfired. in addition, the last time a republican leader said, read my lips, it backfired. what do you think about this strategy for john boehner? >> i dont think were learning from the mistakes of 1995 when government shut down and there was huge backlash against the republicans for it. by repeating the...

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It could have really hurt republicans but i think that well have an energized primary season. i think that republicans, whoever the republican is, either from the tea party wing or from the main stream republican wing, whoever wins that will be in a binary choice against the democrat and the energy that comes from not only the tea party but independent voters and traditional republicans who are fed up with where the democrats are taking the country, i think that theyre going to be energized no m...

Time in the past year to voice your concerns? >> youve got to remember, this bill, the guts of this bill, the main part of the big bill that was just signed yesterday arrived on a saturday afternoon. we were given three days to debate it in the senate. no amendments were allowed. then we were forced to vote on it on christmas eve. then it went over to the house where no amendments were allowed. none. and it was voted on on a party line vote. the only bipartisan nature of the bill was that there ...

They say they scrub the bill. senator reid and budget committee chairman kent conrad said they have strubed it with pine sol, lysol and mr. clean. they think theres nothing in there that can be beat back with a procedural hurdle. history is on the side of republicans right now. >> mr. clean, indeed. thank you very much, ken strickland. the battle may be ending. the political war is escalating. >> one of the most perplexing things about this health care bill is the determination of the white ho...

Stop the demonization of the bill from his perspective but at the same time he needs to talk about jobs. hes got to talk about the economy. people are pretty much fed up with this. >> well, i think he does have to talk about the economy and i think it has to be his focus between now and november, but theres a lot of good things to talk about in health care. you know, the republicans used a lot of tactics to try to scare people about it and now theyre about to find out that the scare tactics aren...

Senator judd gregg was standing there with senator cornyn. and with, of course, the republican leader, mitch mcconnell. republicans offering dozens of amendments to the so-called fix-it bill. democrats insist they should just give up the fight. senator gregg now joins us. >> they shouldnt be voted on not because they dont make sense, but because, get rid of them. theyre the opposition. why have an opposition party? you know, i mean, maybe we should just go to a cuban system. that seems to be the...

About turnout. its about turning out the most passionate, intense people to vote in what is usually a low turnout affair. republicans need to make it part of their coalition to run well in 2010. >> one of the more interesting numbers here is that 60% of the voters in the tea party group, 60% of them identify themselves as a member of the tea party movement have a favorable impression of the republican party and 82% have an unfavorable opinion of the democratic party. so they are pretty well self...

This is just a fringe element. this is what sarah palin posted on twitter. she said that common sense cob servetives and lovers of america dont retreat. instead, reload. please see my facebook page. that shows -- her facebook page shows a map with rifle sights over the states with vulnerable democrats. some of the gun imagery is a little misplaced. >> certainly. we see this sort of rhetoric. we talk -- national parties talk about targets. unfortunately, in this context, that has quite a differen...