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Their salary is $174,000 a year. dont you feel like youre really getting your moneys worth right now? it was the least productive congress on record. so, what it comes down to, folks, is this. you, as an american worker are working harder and longer for less pay. i showed you what the graph was all about. congress is working less and getting paid more. so you know what? you, me as taxpayers, were getting ripped off. were not getting our moneys worth. certainly theyre still great americans, arent...

We should change the name of this graph to not anymore. not if youre paying attention to the nra in this last election. and when president obama announced his plan for reforming gun laws, this is the reaction. obama guns plan meets fast resistance and why obamas gun plan may be doomed. and nra chief on obamas real agenda. oh, yeah, lets go ask the trolls. this is how we see the debate about gun laws. this is how the nra has taught us to see debate with democrats and law enforcement and victims o...

Ought to know better into punching down at them. but if that is the way you are operating in our political system, if you have to troll for it, if youre going for purposeful out rage and nothing more serious than that. it is also pretty good evidence that youre not all that good in discussion. and, you know, the nra has proved its political impotence in recent electoral politics. and they did it in stark, empirical terms. the nras main pac spent $11 million on candidates, more than 99% was waste...

Commerce. the nra set a new bar. we should change the name of this graph to not anymore. not if youre paying attention to the nra in this last election. and when president obama announced his plan for reforming gun laws, this his reaction. obama guns plan meets fast resis tense and why obamas gun plan may be doomed. and nra chief on obamas real agenda. oh, yeah, lets go ask the trolls. this is how we see the debate about gun laws. this is how the nra has taught us to see debate with democrats an...

For both of us and executive county executive bruce walker. it was an invasion of privacy immediately. once you finish reading the requested bare graph your instant reaction is this is a complete invasion of privacy. and with social media and social networks and computer technology being what it is today we realized quickly that this would -- information would just be -- just too much out in cyber and there would be too much exposure. >> well, right decision, obviously. what has been the reactio...

Spending cuts and is there a need, because when you see how much has been done and as you look at the graph, and how much has been done on spending cuts, do we indeed need to have this fight? >> well, do we need to. and initially we saw obama claiming what was an overreach, but we have recent history in this in terms of the immigration reform. when he did deferred action he said he did not want to go around congress, but the realization of popular support of this issue, and congress was not goin...

Crossroads had a less than 2% success rate in their spending. more than 98% of the money that they spent did not work. its not very intimidating, right? think about it. if past is prologue, then in planning for the next election, if youre a political candidate, you would be very well off hoping for a karl rove spending campaign against you. it would do wonders for your odds, because 98% of the money he spent in the last election went the way he didnt want it to go, was wasted. but even karl rove...

Right? think about it. if past is prologue, then in planning for the next election, if youre a political candidate, you would be very well off hoping for a karl rove spending campaign against you. it would do wonders for your odds, because 98% of the money he spent in the last election went the way he didnt want it to go, was wasted. but even karl roves massively ineffectual spending on the last campaign looks positively impressive, positively robust compared to the right wing group that did wor...

Issue? >> yeah, absolutely. i think what happened in 2012 were two things coming together at the same time. number one, the affects of the 2010 election when tea party extremists flooded into the united states congress, and also flooded into key swing states -- virginia, ohio, wisconsin, michigan. we saw this wave, this huge wave as the graph that you put up there showed of anti-women legislation and anti-abortion rights legislation. at the same time, you had a national election, a presidential ...

Attention and furor changed what states were able to do on this issue? >> yeah, absolutely. i think what happened in 2012 were two things coming together at the same time. number one, the affects of the 2010 election when tea party extremists flooded into the united states congress, and also flooded into key swing states -- virginia, ohio, wisconsin, michigan. we saw this wave, this huge wave as the graph that you put up there showed of anti-women legislation and anti-abortion rights legislation...