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Changing the proverbial goal posts. this is the case, i dont know some in the establishment now questioning whether the president has gone too far or scaring too much? >> i hope so. i fervently hope that the american people dont fall for this melodrama that somehow cutting to two-or 3 percent out of it is going to cause armageddon. if we cant cut $60 billion out of budget how in the world are we going to get a balanced budget. we have a trillion dollars in debt. how could we get near there if we...

In his op-ed, "when the president asks that a substitute store the sequester include not just spending cuts but new revenue, he is moving the goal posts." the white house fired back, theres never been any question that the president seeking revenues as part of a plan to replace the automatic cuts. woodward is on shaky ground when he insists that the white house never wanted revenue to replace the sequester. in fact that was the top democratic demand during the super committee that was created to...

Secure. >> its really important that we have smart and workable enforcement as part of any comprehensive immigration bill that goes forward, but, again, how those benchmarks are measured and what it means is something thats going to be very important because we have seen the goal post move when it comes to enforcement in the past, and the reality is weve seen billions, $18 billion invested, in strengthening our borders just in the last year. more investments in that area than all the other feder...

Higher than the goal posts. a lot of it is ground down into mulch, a lot of is incinerated with special equipment. some of the wood is actually offered back to the public. we met a guy with his own sawmill who is taking those sandy fallen trees and making counter tops and furniture with it. >> im manufacturing a product that can be used again and people can say this came from sandy, the storm that effected so many people and thats a positive that came out of it and its sitting here in my dining ...

Rubio. and house nearly three months to raise the debt ceiling. >> look, i understand why they want to move the initiative forward and i think there is some strategicty to the way theyre doing it it and i believe the second part the of it it, congress shouldnt get paid unless a budget is passed. no one wants to miss a paycheck certainly, but i think its a very valid point and i think that its not unfair to say to the people if youre not going to do your job, you shouldnt get paid. >> greta: and ...

Rubio. and house nearly three months to raise the debt ceiling. >> look, i understand why they want to move the initiative forward and i think there is some strategicty to the way theyre doing it it and i believe the second part the of it it, congress shouldnt get paid unless a budget is passed. no one wants to miss a paycheck certainly, but i think its a very valid point and i think that its not unfair to say to the people if youre not going to do your job, you shouldnt get paid. >> greta: and ...

Weapons attack. this is unconfirmed. hopefully since it happened yesterday our government is trying to figure out the details. you have to remember that president obama has moved the goal posts of when he would get involved with syria. early on he had indicated that there was this concept of responsibility to protect, which is a foreign policy concept that if there are people in harms way that the united states government has a responsibility to protect. jaime: he drew a red line. on top of that...

He didnt do in previous negotiations during the first four years. he has very dramatically and very, very powerfully gone to the public, continued the campaign, essentially continued the same kind of campaign he had leading up to the election. this time its raising tax rates on the rich and basically putting republicans back to where they came from. basically saying, we won. i won this election. you won this election and we are going to move forward on the agenda that we had in this election. th...

Billion in increased revenue on the rich. thats what he campaigned on, and he wanted to raise the tax rates on the rich. speaker boehners proposal, as i understand it, that went over to the white house the other day which theyve pretty much called ridiculous offered the 800 billion in revenue, getting it from the same people. the rich people, but rather increasing the tax rates, what they were going to do is close some loopholes and deductions that apply only to the rich people, so that the rich...

Which is what well get if we go over the cliff with these tax rates going up on so many small businesses all absenter country. im meeting with the same business leaders that the president is meeting with, and you know, what theyre nel tellg me is theyre not hiring, theyre doing hiring freezes, not filling spots that are empty. and its all in anticipation of whats going to happen in terms of the tax increases, in terms it of the huge expenses of the obama health care law which is facing them as w...