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Underemployment numbers and the stagnation of wages. that is what is happening. people dont have jobs right now and they are having to rely on the government and be dependent because there are no jobs. >>neil: when you look at programs growing and entitlements is a big sweeping area, and people are on social security and medicare and you could call it entitlement and i call it something i worked hard for, all good points but they are all under something the government is giving and there is a mo...

Much is it more a war of words? not so much a war but going in and interpreting the words? because theres different ways to do this. you can raise taxes or you can close loopholes. but if it all gets to the same point, really is the war over how you get there or just getting there? >> yeah, i think youre exactly right, that the importance of words is hard to overstate in the sense that how do the two sides frame whatever the deal ultimately is? is it something that republicans can go to their co...

The snow out west. i think weve had everything but the locusts. >> wow. >> lets talk about the grid for a second, though. when you look at all the problems were having here, this is a wide swath of the country affected. is it something where you look at our grid and say this should not be happening, we can do "x" and "y" to improve it or is it the sort of thing where sometimes something freakish happens and we have to live with long-term power outages. >> we have seen storm after storm come and ...

Its a lot of the same things i hear from small business owners, saying theres too much regulation thats stopping them from doing their job. banks feel like they also have been just the butt of every regulation thats come out, and its frustrating to them. you may think they need regulation, but this is one to have main reasons why theyve lined up behind romney. megyn: you know, just talking to some wall street folks, and i know a lot of folks who were big, big obama donors last time around who ha...

Is it something claire mccaskill has to respond to? >> well, id say on a scale of 1 to 10, were heading into, like, 20 territory, ed. i think at a certain point this actually makes me wonder what must a republican candidate or any candidate do to not get support? right? like, i think at this point we have to start having a competition just to see where the lines of offensiveness, how far we can push these boundaries. apparently making rape jokes doesnt do it, making misogynistic comments doesnt ...

Endorsed him and the chair of the democratic senatorial campaign committee says the endorsement taints every republican senate, senator running in this election cycle. >> just a few weeks ago, every one of those republicans said that what he said was so offensive and how he said it was so offensive that they could not support him. and they are going to have to answer to the question about why is it not offensive today? i think that is a legitimate question that is going to be asked not just of t...

Campaign committee says the endorsement taints every republican senate, senator running in this election cycle. >> just a few weeks ago, every one of those republicans said that what he said was so offensive and how he said it was so offensive that they could not support him. and they are going to have to answer to the question about why is it not offensive today? i think that is a legitimate question that is going to be asked not just of those republicans who now are going to endorse him or put...

Rid of the automatic pay bump that teachers got for years of it is and advance degrees and wanted to award raises based on merit and things got ugly from there. >> isnt something -- >> andy serwer, isnt it something that teachers unions fight -- they have been fighting for years, and they are on the wrong side of their street and theyve lost this battle with the public. theyve lost the battle that teachers unions leaders for some reason are saying do not judge us based on how we perform, judge u...

Spirit of 2012, which is a much more smash mouth kind of politics we saw in 2008, in some way joe biden is better suited to this than either mitt romney or barack obama. he can deliver a punch to the gut and kind of prop you back up and smile at you and make you feel okay after he does it. hes very tough. of all four of the guys on the ticket, romney, ryan, biden, hes the only one in a speaks the language of populism. he always has. he has the working class, scranton pennsylvania, he talks to vo...

How much have we talked about afghanistan as a group in the media? how much do we invest time in that? people in polls dont want to talk about it. but is that something that we should not be doing? no we should be covering it. megyn: we are talking about congressman akin who said this ridiculous remark thats got even criticized from both sides from everybody across the board, right, on rape and legitimate rape and that is a story obviously, the guy is running for senate it could affect the balan...