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>> lastly americans loved guns. people who support gun rights should go to a few funerals of people who have died because of guns. i would like people who dont die from gun rights. >> thats a good shot, but it doesnt work. people who have gun -- guns in their homes and dont lock them up and kids pick them up and kill themselves. >> in the 80s and 90s americans were killed by others with guns at a rate of 5.66 per 100,000 350e78. -- people. in the last decade it has fallen 28%. even as firearms s...

Maybe theyre right. peter, thank you very much. stay single, i guess, for now. youre a young guy. bill: i advise it! martha: dont alone to hemmer on this one. bill: a couple of bad apples. it was a state with the most red ink, californias democratic governor proposing massive cuts and ballooning pension plans. will the unions go for it, will the lawmakers go for it. martha: congressman paul ryan, have you heard what he has been paying, president obama has been, quote, preying on emotions and f...

They prefer, 35 percent say a flat rate with no deductions. at the bottom, you find 12 percent say a national sales tax. art laffer is a former reagan economic adviser. break that down for us. why would the flat rate be so favored by americans, do you believe? >> well, because everyone knows it works. everyone knows our current system doesnt work. bill: do they? >> sure they do. if you have a flat single rate, you get what you earn, you pay your tax, you dont have to hire lawyer, accountant, def...

Road with 2012 and the latest to be hit with bad news is minnesota congresswoman michele bachman. yesterday members of her new hampshire team offered a memo explaining staffers in that state has resigned. although they hit back calling it an unauthorized news release sent by a person who doesnt work for the campaign and hasnt had authority to speak on behalf of the campaign. her campaign tense to press forward in iowa, hoping to regain the momentum that help her win the ames straw poll. and join...

Road with 2012 and the latest to be hit with bad news is minnesota congresswoman michele bachman. yesterday members of her new hampshire team offered a memo explaining staffers in that state has resigned. although they hit back calling it an unauthorized news release sent by a person who doesnt work for the campaign and hasnt had authority to speak on behalf of the campaign. her campaign tense to press forward in iowa, hoping to regain the momentum that help her win the ames straw poll. and join...

Spending. i dont think that was what the guidelines were. >>guest: it cant be a serious proposal. their job is to cut spending. to deal with the $14 trillion debt we have the we know what doesnt work. and it is more borrowing and more spending and overregulation and threatening people with increased taxes. that doesnt work. >>neil: so say the six democrats push that and six republicans resist that. and never the two shall meet. we have sequestration, the old automatic cuts. will that happen? >>g...

Is that the right approach if youre claire mccaskill in a tough race in missouri, for example, or jon tester in montana. can you distance yourself from the president as a democrat? >> i was about to say, it doesnt work. for all practical purposes, yes, we are seeing some of them who are going to have tough re-election ballots, trying to distance themselves. but they still run with a big "d" by their names. so what happens then, if the president turns up and wins? so youve got a problem on two le...

>> this is worthless argument that rich people create jobs, therefore, tax them less. they have -- it is a brilliant trick of the mind. they make more money, they have more money, therefore, tax them less so that, what? >> well, look, this isnt the proposal of a serious presidential candidate. this is a guy who is sitting at 6% in "the new york times" poll. >> and dropping. >> right. and dropping like a stone. hes just barely ahead of rick santorum, whos arguably not really much of a candidate a...

>> this is worthless argument that rich people create jobs, therefore, tax them less. they have -- it is a brilliant trick of the mind. they make more money, they have more money, therefore, tax them less so that, what? >> well, look, this isnt the proposal of a serious presidential candidate. this is a guy who is sitting at 6% in "the new york times" poll. >> and dropping. >> right. and dropping like a stone. hes just barely ahead of rick santorum, whos arguably not really much of a candidate a...

President needs to go out on his own and -- >> the senator can disagree, but i think there are some areas where there may be agreement, but when you look at the totality of the $447 billion proposal, i dont sense theres enough agreement to get the bulk of that through the senate and the house at this point. and therefore, the president is back where he is. >> well, we worked with him on the transportation bill, the federal aviation bill, there are things i want to work with him, but there is a p...