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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 election. and the democrats ...

Agreed on a plan. after the wrappingalling, horse trading and bab stabbing, what did they come up with? this graph on the left shows the revenue increases. $62 billion. on the right is how much we add to deficit ever year. i call this a fiscal farce. taxes going up. mandatory sequestration wasnt mandatory after all. weve been told another bottle of d.c. snake oil. in the end, president obama got his way, a deal and moments later he boarded air force one and jetted off to hawaii to enjoy the golf...

A hybrid that c-max also bests in mpg. say hi to the all-new 47 combined mpg c-max hybrid. when im not sitting in for rachel im at the washington post writing a blog. each year for the end of the year we ask our fellow travelers in the great wide world to send in their favorite graph.

Conroy, he sent a graph this year that was useful on capitol hill this year. it showed the last tax budget we had. five points higher than it was now. tax revenues right now. about the lowest we have seen. you need to balance the budget, more taxes. you see the growing divide here between the rich and the poor when it come to the amount of debt that they have. it shows the debt by the top richest five americans and it is falling now. the blue line shows the line for the bottom nine percent. this...

North dakota, senator kent conroy he sent a graph this year that was useful on capitol hill this year. it showed the last tax budget we had. five points higher than it was now. tax revenues right now. about the lowest we have seen. you need for laxes to balance the budget. you see the growing divide here between the rich and the poor when it come to the amount of debt that they have. it shows the debt by the top richest five americans and it is falling now. the blue line shows the line for the b...

Youll be shocked to know, we got a graph for that. heres what happens if we go over the cliff. you get more than $5 trillion in tax increases off the bat. and now heres what happens if we pass the sainted simpson bowles plan. youve heard of the plan. they have 2.6 trillion in tax increases. president obamas latest offer to john boehner has 1.2 trillion in taxes. that is half as much, less than half than simpson bowles, and less than a quarter of what is in -- simply going over the fiscal cliff.

Got a graph for that. heres what happens if we go over the cliff. you get more than $5 trillion in tax increases off the bat. and now heres what happens if we pass the sainted simpson bowles plan. youve heard of the plan. they have 2.6 trillion in tax increases. president obamas latest offer to john boehner has 1.2 trillion in taxes. that is half as much, less than half than simpson bowles, and less than a quarter of what is in -- simply going over the fiscal cliff. i think the tax increases are...

That line going down. that is the fiscal cliff, we went over our deficit problems, gone baby, totally, totally gone. one thing the fear of the fiscal cliff shows by the way, in the fox hole, everyones a kinsian. everyone agrees. that is number one. too much austerity way too quickly. president obama is not asking for that much in taxes. its worth getting a bit of perspective in here. youll be shocked to know, we got a graph for that.

Attention and the way we give them an identity by mentioning their names and repeating their names creates additional little monsters. we find that these types of crimes occur in clusters. and so to that extent, lapierre is not that far off when he says how many are out there waiting? we have no idea. >> the data, we looked into the data on this sort of copy cat effect, and theres interesting findings in both directions. it is fairly unsettled. there are finding that is do suggest the large copy...

Careening into it, seemingly totally out of control, with the republicans blaming each other, its a very strange situation to be in. >> and remember, rachel, this is -- i know you know this, but we also have to remind ourselves, this is a completely artificial, self-inflicted wound. a trap we set for ourselves with dysfunctional politics. you know, our xhoi is very resilient. as you see, it is improving. you showed the graph earlier. but you have to ask yourself, how much policy abuse can this e...