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Conservative party, republican party, makes progressives lazy, frankly, and unimaginative, and its bad for the country. bad for the country -- >> i think i spent a good -- i admitted something last week. dont we all like to go into the booth knowing we have an option play? if the democrats have been blowing it, we give the republicans a shot or the other way around. you can actually choose. here is general powell you thought i would be playing. here he is talking about the republicans image prob...

Marginalizes itself and becomes less relevant to the discourse. only obstructionist is what the party is spike seeking -- >> what is their plan? >> i dont know but its a slam. as someone who believes in progressive ideas, i realize that not having a smart, engaged conservative party, republican party makes progressive lazy frankly, and unimaginative and its bad for the country. bad for the country -- >> i think i spent a good -- i admitted something last week. dont we all like to go into the boo...

Frank luntz says the public regard these republicans as, and im quoting, nothing more than opponents of the president and friends of the powerful. nia malika, whats the problem? thats an entirely accurate assessment, isnt it? >> well, you know, at least thats what the public thinks -- >> thats what i mean. that is what the public thinks. >> it was last week a poll came out that said most people identify as democrats, not republicans. so we do know that house republicans, republicans more general...

Post, he really studied republican think tanks and heritage foundation and aei. and he wrote this. conservatism needs an attitude adjustment. get hungry, get humble and get to know more people who arent like you. a cultural shift in gop will go a long way toward fixing the partys other big problem, the idea that you can persuade people by talking at them and not with them. thats a little deeper problem i think ward is right about. >> it is a deeper problem. but i would suggest that, pivoting off...

Disagrees, that tends to be not so great and as long as republicans can continue to intensely disagree with the presidents proposals, they can essentially convince the public theres something wrong with them and harm president obamas political standing at not much to do to change that dynamic other than continue to press forward with what he wants to do and hope that the public sees that hes working in their best interest. >> we had a gop autopsy and, of course, the exit poll information that sh...

Weve been saying for a while that the republican party has an image problem, a reputation problem. now new numbers from the nbc/"wall street journal" poll just out prove the point. the democratic partys favorable number is now 44%, and the overall favorable is plus nine. in other words, better positive than negative. the republicans have a 30% favorable right now. thats pretty bad. a negative 15 if you subtract the bad from the good. it gets worst. a word cloud showing the most commonly used wor...

Helping obama get elected. he owes them something. i dont totally look at it sin cli for the future but once again the party of the wealthy is against the regular man. things that regular working class people need laying the groundwork for defeat in 2016. party i.d., a long-term sorts of thing that is will just remind people, hey, theyre not for us. theyre not working for us. 2016 is already begun and not too cool to not -- im not too cool to talk about it already. its begun and the republicans ...

Federal judge. no one is held at gitmo without an independent judiciary. if they are going to be tried, they should be tried in military court. those who attackeddous 9/11, they are war criminals. >> if we are going to detain them, what is the difference between detaining them -- why would the president want to detain them in the territory of the united states? i know there was a prison in illinois that was discussed. if they are going to be detained, does it make a difference where we detain th...

Before a federal judge. no one is held at gitmo until they pass through an independent judiciariry. they should be tried in a military court. those who attacked us on 9/11 is not a common crime. i think theyre war criminals. >> greta: why would the president want to detain them in the territory of the united states? there was a prison in illinois that was discussed. if theyre going to be detained, does it make a difference where we detain them? >> i think these are not common criminals. i think ...

Protected? thats the problem that republicans face. labor does have a bit of an upper hand on this one. but then again, you look at all the stuff being offered as concessions. its going to hit the working class. they know the history of the negotiations. they know the entitlement programs that the cuts that tend to be made affect them more than others. but republicans -- they have an image problem when they are out there saying we need to protect the tax rates of the top 2%. everyone knows the r...