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That we test is we take away childrens willingness do the hard thing. if i have to only do the things i succeed at, i wont try the hard stuff because ill fail. thats what the creative energy of education. >> thats not being taken away from them. were talking about a couple tests in a couple days of the year. there are multiple opportunities with effective educators that -- when i say educators, im talking about principals and everyone else in the building, social workers. for them to provide mul...

Of the deficit and only 4% of the cuts. thats completely skewed and not the way it should be. if you want to address the health of the country, you have to address entitlement reform. neither side is wanting to do the hard stuff and say to the voters, youre really going to have to take some pain here. >> katty or joe, let me ask you, for argument sake and when this was argued in the opinion pieces and on television, the president says he has a plan, $900 billion in cuts, chain cpi, medicare but ...

The nra is talking about the magazines as well. universal registration and federal background checks. >> it seems what the white house is leading toward is leaving the hard stuff later. one of the hardest proposals is going to be having a on assault weapon and doing the fact that you cant do everything is not an excuse for doing nothing. so its a reasonable strategy to try and take first off the things on which you could build some consensus. if anything else that might diffuse some of the very ...

The fiscal cliff deal was, well raise taxes and cut spending, what did they do, raised taxes no cutting spending and hey, we have to raise taxes because look at all of this spending. and tax heights aikes and no sh spending, nothings going to change, except theyre going to say we need more of your money. >> one last bite here, im tired of coming on the air here, listening to republicans talk about how the democrats dont want to cut medicare, when we put real cuts on the table and mitt romney wan...

Atheist organizations. were us now david silverman. president of the atheist group. >> thanks for having me. im really trying to get and im not trying to be a wise guy here. i will deal with the hard stuff with governor chafeee tomorrow. im trying to give you a point of view here. you are an atheist. i respect that. i dont look down on you. i dont think you are pinhead. >> thank you. >> bill: if you want to atheist thats why we have america. be with it. why are you messing around with my holiday...

Were us now david silverman. president of the atheist group. >> thanks for having me. im really trying to get and im not trying to be a wise guy here. i will deal with the hard stuff with governor chafeee tomorrow. im trying to give you a point of view here. you are an atheist. i respect that. i dont look down on you. i dont think you are pinhead. >> thank you. >> bill: if you want to atheist thats why we have america. be with it. why are you messing around with my holiday? is there a compelling...

Honor, he felt he had to resign. he understands that this is his fault. and hes really just laying low right now, trying to repair things with his own family. >> and you know, one of more quiet players in all of this has been his wife. i mean, is he at home? is he welcome at home? is his family welcoming him? is he going to be given this opportunity to repair his personal life? >> look, i have no way, and maybe not so much desire to peer into whats happening in the house right now. clearly, his ...

Possible solutions. and by the process of debate, we pick the best idea. that competition between good ideas from both sides about real problems in the real country should result in our country having better choices, better options, than if only one side is really working on the hard stuff. and the if the republican party and the conservative movement and the conservative media is snuck in a vacuum-sealed door-locked spin cycle of telling each other what makes them feel good and denying the fact...

On the table. >>neil: what if they say we will look at the reform but they offer in skin like you just have with the credits and allowances, what do you specifically want to hear from them in the next 53 days to shake hands and do the hard stuff next year? >>guest: they have to lay out a clear path saying we will deal with entitlements and we will put it on the table and this is how we will put it on the table and have and kind of a timeframe commitment to getting that done, a timeframe of negot...

Possible solutions. and by the process of debate, we pick the best idea. that competition between good ideas from both sides about real problems in the real country should result in our country having better choices, better options, than if only one side is really working on the hard stuff. and the if the republican party and the conservative movement and the conservative media is snuck a vacuum-sealed door-locked spin cycle of telling each other what makes them feel good and denying the factual...