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Of, you know, flailing and vote-taking? >> well, if you look at it from john boehners perspective, he has a conference that is a bit stubborn. they stick to their principles and they really dont budge. and he has to show them that, give them a chance to let out the steam, to pass these bills and then let them fail in the senate and then he can go back to the conference and say, look, we have tried. we have to try something else. obviously didnt work. >> jon: there is a huge desire on the part of...

What about the middle class? what is going to be on the table for the middle class this what do the democrats have to do? >> well, i think the whole message goes to what the whole message needs, and that is a little bit of relief after this last go-around. he is trying to tell the democratic base quit being this party that is so willing to run away from real issues. dont budge on the issues. stand for something. do something. the democrats have had a hard time doing for so long. i think it was a...

What is going to be on the table for the middle class? what do the democrats have to do? >> well, i think the whole message goes to what the whole message needs, and that is a little bit of relief after this last go-around. i think his message is, stand for something. he is trying to tell the democratic base quit being this party that is so willing to run away from real issues. dont budge on the issues. stand for something. do something. the democrats have had a hard time doing for so long. i th...

Party -- left right, democrat, republican, we need to take this deal. there is another part of the house republican in congress, that said no no no lets have a fight on this. this comes back to republicans know that they got $400,000 as a threshold. a lot of them take it as a victory, because the president started at 250. they think take this deal then the real fight will come in march on the debt limit. and if they dont budge, you know that is the real real big one when it comes to how the mark...

The guy got out there, was a sexist crude, mean guy, and it led to all sorts of things. you went to the democratic convention, saw fluke and others punching hard bloodying rush limbaugh in terms of politics not bloodying his bottom line not bloodying the big checks he gets to take home which may be all he cares about. what we have to watch for those of us that care about the politics and outcome, who are the responsible people, and can any of us even with disagreements make space for them. i wel...

Immigration, if there is a democratic party position on immigration. no one has been advocating a path to citizenship for everyone who is here illegally, but now rand paul is. the most the democrats have been pushing, if you can call it pushing, is some form of a dream act for kids that grew up in the united states and graduated from here, graduate from college, join our military, a narrow approach to immigration reform. the dream act does nothing to address the problems of the undocumented gran...

Immigration plan with an eventual path to citizenship for illegal immigrants a proposal he believes could be palatable to conservatives. paul is working on a novel plan he says would assimilate many of the 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the country. quote, if we assimilate those who are here however they got here, dont make it an easy path for citizenship, there would be an eventual path but we dont make anybody tomorrow a citizen who came here illegally, but if theyre willing to wor...

Punching hard, bloodying rush limbaugh in terms of politics, not bloodying his bottom line, not bloodying the big checks he gets to take home, which may be all he cares about. what we have to watch for those of us that care about the politics and outcome, who are the responsible people, and can any of us, even with disagreements make space for them. i welcome folks that want to come over, work on some of the problems together. >> and watching the limbaugh versus hannity battle this year is going...

Even things out is confront them where theyre being unfair and they are being unfair in some areas of trade. >> george bush has confronted them on monetary policy as barack obama has and they dont budge. >> one of the things that we have to do is act with teeth. one of the things that you cant do is be sort of generic and give toasts and say lets be fair. i think the actions that obama has taken, for instance, taking world trade organizations steps, thats the beginning of the kind of discussion ...

The table. he was asked about it last week. >> did you see any deal if they dont budge on taxes? >> i do not see a path to a deal if they dont budge, period. i mean, if the basic proposition is its my way or the highway, then were probably not going to get something done because we have divided government. we have democrats controlling the senate. we probably are going to need democratic votes in the house for any package that could possibly pass. so if, in fact, mitch mcconnell and john boehner...