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Or to spend the money. he has to follow the laws pass the by congress, the taxes raised by congress. he has no authority beyond that. the debt limit simply tells the treasury that they cannot refinance the bonds, they cannot sell additional notes. but it is in fact the congress who has over time, and you mentioned it, ten years of war that was never paid for, that has authorized the deficit. it is us, the members of congress that do that. and we can do this. we can put together a plan that over ...

I think we need to be smart. i think we need to be careful. and we got to have a message, ed, that really people understand and they can get behind. if not, theyll get jobbed again as they got jond this one. >> go ahead, karen. >> michael, if your party thinks that threatening to shut down the government is a good strategy, then, you know what? now we understand all the more why yall thought when you were looking at the numbers that mitt romney was going to be president. i mean, come on. threate...

And there was real pain for real people when that happens. i do not think that that is a smart strategy. i also think that what republicans continue to misunderstood is basic math. and that is that the middle class in this country, and you talk about this all the time, theyve already been paying more than their fair share. so when we go back to this conversation, when we talk about fairness, they are crazy to think that as, you know, debbie wasserman schultz pointed out, of course both sides of ...

Great to have both of you with us. michael, you first. going forward, the line in the sand is set. how is president obama going to keep the budget cut negotiations separate from any kind of debt ceiling vote? your thoughts. >> thats a very good question, ed. and i think thats one of the challenges the president is actually going to face. so i appreciate his comment when he said i will no longer negotiate with this congress. he is right. this congress is over. a new congress comes in tomorrow, au...

Sand is set. how is president obama going to keep the budget cut negotiations separate from any kind of debt ceiling vote? your thoughts. >> thats a very good question, ed. and i think thats one of the challenges the president is actually going to face. so i appreciate his comment when he saidly no longer negotiate with this congress. he is right. this congress is over. a new congress comes in tomorrow, augmented, mind you, with ten new, you know, a majority of 10 in the senate for democrats, an...

Idealogically driven candidates who are then assured election in those noncompetitive districts. the polarized media is also a factor in so far as issues are presented in black and white terms and offered in short sound bites. and dont forget about the role of money. gone are the days when members truly lived in washington, d.c., moved their families with them, and socialized with one another. nowadays theyre essentially at work just tuesday through thursday, with lots of recess. the rest of the...

0 he was house majority leader for the republican party for eight years. that means he was the number one republican in the house. that should have put him in line to be speaker of the house if anything happened to the guy above him. but when something did happen to the guy above him, dick armey never got the job. it was newt gingrich who had been the number one in the house. he had been the speaker while dick armey was the number two republican in the house. and newt gingrich did get thrown out...

0 he was house majority leader for the republican party for eight years. that means he was the number one republican in the house. that should have put him in line to be speaker of the house if anything happened to the guy above him. but when something did happen to the guy above him, dick armey never got the job. it was newt gingrich who had been the number one in the house. he had been the speaker while dick armey was the number two republican in the house. and newt gingrich did get thrown out...

at one point he started inviting the press to come along to talk to him about campaign-related issues. but price of admission for the press was that they had to go to the zoo with newt gingrich in order to hear what he had to say. whether you find that endearingly eccentric or creepily eccentric, that form of eccentricity is a recurring theme in american politics. president lyndon johnson famously used to do interviews from the bathroom. he would be sitting in the bathroom, using the b...

>> is there going to be an off-year effort like 2013? should the democrats go down the road of making sure voter registration is taking place and not in the 11th hour? >> yes, absolutely, ed there is an african proverb that one should never build their shield on the battlefield. well, it is shield-building time for democrats. absolutely we certainly plan to do that right here in the state of ohio. well need folks who understand that when it comes to elections, ed, our party affiliation should be...