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Of weeks? i mean, given that, like you said, we had seven weeks and we couldnt get a deal, why will two more weeks in january be any different? governor dean? >> because everybodys taxes are going up and the pressure is going to be on the republicans to do something. i am fearful they will do something. this is where ed and i disagree. i think the fix the debt is fine and good but the ceos that are backing it will be the ones that primarily benefit. this is a bipartisan deal that was put togethe...

They would finally get the defense cuts that they have been clamoring for and it would actually serve their purposes. i dismiss that. >> to be fair, we have even had some republicans who have said that that they want. members of the tea party dont want to have anything to do with -- they want us to go into default. they want us to face these problems. howard dean on the democratic side saying, look, if we dont do it, we have got this other plan and he talks about the fiscal cliff to what alisyn ...

Votes and you dont. it would not entirely surprise me to see eric cantor or kevin mccarthy, whove been waiting in the wings, kind of gently stack the speaker in the back for a couple years, to make their move after the new session starts. the fiscal cliff, as you know, i believe the country would be better off if we went over the fiscal cliff. we would get enough revenues to be serious about balancing the budget. wed get some defense cuts, which congress will never vote for otherwise. we will ge...

You cant do. you cant have your budget overridden, as governors know, and you cant have a major initiative like this go down when you think you have the votes and you dont. it would not entirely surprise me to see eric cantor or kevin mccarthy, whove been waiting in the wings, kind of gently stack the speaker in the back for a couple years, to make their move after the new session starts. the fiscal cliff, as you know, i believe the country would be better off if we went over the fiscal cliff. w...

Overridden, as governors know, and you cant have a major initiative like this go down when you think you have the votes and you dont. it would not entirely surprise me to see eric cantor or kevin mccarthy, whove been waiting in the wings, kind of gently stack the speaker in the back for a couple years, to make their move after the new session starts. the fiscal cliff, as you know, i believe the country would be better off if we went over the fiscal cliff. we would get enough revenues to be serio...

Say about getting what they want at this point. >> yeah. the only problem is -- this is a little initially going to team like heresy, the truth is everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich. thats a good start. we wont get out of the problem to raise taxes across the board to go back to what bill clinton had in his taxes. if we dont do that, the problem is pressure is on spending even more. i think we need to make the defense cuts. we want to minimize human services cuts. the best way ...

>> i know a guy personally who had to put a hip replacement off and was -- eventually ended up on crutches and in a wheelchair until he turned 65. and if he had to wait until 67, it would be two more years in that condition. this is a terrible idea. there may be ways to save money on medicare. i think there are. this is a really bad one. >> my sense of whats going on here is that nothing is going on here. is that john boehner knows were going to go off the curb on january 1st, the democrats and ...

>> i know a guy personally who had to put a hip replacement off and was -- eventually ended up on crutches and in a wheelchair until he turned 65. and if he had to wait until 67, it would be two more years in that condition. this is a terrible idea. there may be ways to save money on medicare. i think there are. this is a really bad one. >> my sense of whats going on here is that nothing is going on here. is that john boehner knows were going to go off the curb on january 1st, the democrats and ...

The bill, and i think its going to be all of us. you go back to bill clintons tax rates which we did pretty well under bill clinton, you cut some defense spending, which isnt going to get cut otherwise because the defense contractors are in practically every congressional district in the place. and you do make some human services cuts which i dont like but everybodys going to have to put something on the table here. >> steve rattner, im sure you would beg to differ with what howard dean had to s...

Think they wouldnt be quite as many human services cuts. we need to cut spending here. we dont need to talk about social security, because that doesnt have a direct effect on the deficit. we need to talk about medicare and revenue increases. one of the things i like about the presidents budget, over the long term, he deals with the deficit. the way he does it, he acknowledges 60% of the deficit in 2018 will be a result of bush tax cuts. so the republicans have a budget that is much, much larger ...