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Had made this second argument that congress had the power under its very broad taxing authority and thats where the chief found common ground with the four liberals on the court to say its constitutional. so legally, the guts of the law are left in tact. the only real change that todays decision made is to the medicaid side of the law. the states had argued that by being forced to either accept all these new medicaid requirements, if they said no, the government said fine, youre out of medicaid ...

Only within four contempt citations by congress against the executive branch. during the carter administration, janet reno during the clinton administration and most interestingly, they issued one against harriet miers and john bolton during the bush administration over the firing of federal attorneys. so, im not sure that the-- this is a serious issue between congress and eric holder, but in the political season right now, there are political liabilities for both of them going down this path. t...

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Chrysler, congressman if we dont have federal loans we wont have the money necessary to get through bankruptcy and restructure the private markets are simply not there for us, im going to be forced to liquidate the company. and if mr. romney had his way, that what is would have happened. they would have liquidated, with that hundreds of thousands of jobs would have been lost in michigan and across the country, not just the two major companies but all the suppliers that supply parts to those majo...

Sound bites -- is harmful to women and harmful to society? >> what i was talk about generally speaking in that interview is the concept of sexual liberation, sexual freedom has had its down side. birth control is part of that. dramatic increase in sexually transmitted diseases, dramatic increase out of wedlock births. dramatic increase in number of abortions. this is not been well, everything is just fine. that is a commentary i again, not something that is completely out of the mainstream. bott...

Control is -- let me pull out sound bites -- is harmful to women and harmful to society? >> what i was talk about generally speaking in that interview is the concept of sexual liberation, sexual freedom has had its down side. birth control is part of that. dramatic increase in sexually transmitted diseases, dramatic increase out of wedlock births. dramatic increase in number of abortions. this is not been well, everything is just fine. that is a commentary i again, not something that is complete...

Virtual free pass by many of his rivals, attacked at just debate so far. >> some might say because of your past employment with bank capital, somebody who breaks down businesses, destroys jobs. how would you respond to his criticism of your signature legislative achievement. >> can you name all 59 points in your 160 page plan. >> that could change tonight. remember, it was about this time, an october debate when chris dodd made that damaging hit on hillary clinton. i want to go back to romney he...

A lot of republicans are singing the same tune, the world is a better place without .moammar gadhafi. heres what the republican candidates said then about the presidents decision to intervene. >> it would be foolish. it would have a down side and we should think very, very carefully before we go expanding the wars that were already involved in. >> i would not have intervened. i think there are a lot of other ways to effect gadhafi. >> his inability to have a clear and convincing foreign policy m...

With congress, people have to deal with that individually when they go home. from the republican standpoint, i dont think there is any down side, although, their rigid thinking of the last several years, you know, the track record is they dont want to help this guy. so this is a big speech. this is going to be a big reaction. i also think that one of the reasons why the republicans arent responding to it tonight, they want to see where the wind sock is. they want to see where this all plays out....

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