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Bill maher reque." can i ask you one more thing about the democratic side of things? >> absolutely. >> president obama has this jobs program. its infrastructure investment, middle class tax cuts, all these hiring incentives. and hes got republicans 100% uniformly against him on all this. but he cannot get democrats uniformly behind him on this. he cannot get it from the democrats. is that just the the nature of democrats at this point? or is there anything to get them in line on this? >> i would...

>> president obama has this jobs program. its infrastructure investment, middle class tax cuts, all these hiring incentives. and hes got republicans 100% uniformly against him on all this. but he cannot get democrats uniformly behind him on this. he cannot get it from the democrats. is that just the the nature of democrats at this point? or is there anything to get them in line on this? >> i would agree with you that is one of the big problems in this country. is we understand that the republica...

Did. the government put the satellites in the air, we need government as part of the solution e if government could get out of way. steve jobs did a lot of the actual creation of technology he didnt get a government bailout and grant. with the government helpful to create a structure of course, did the government provide an infrastructure. >> wait a minutes. >> the government doesnt need to build the trucks just the highway. >> any major technology company has benefitted from hundreds of million...

We dont continue the benefits were going to cost the economy about half a million jobs next year. >> alisyn: okay, peter, respond to that? >> well, simply this has gone on too lock and we need other ways of creating jobs and were not going to lose half a million jobs if we dont extend the the benefits because the president is paying for additional spending in his jobs program by cutting other stuff. how does cutting aid to say the states, medicaid, which will lead to hospital workers, do us any ...

Should not have been crafted as a jobs program. it isnt. its an investment in technology. we have a long history of investing in pie in the sky technology, ill give you two examples, the space program, and the internet. and the stimulus program. >> it could not have existed, could not have existed without the government-- >> i mean, i agree. so the question becomes-- >> the internet was something that we-- and already knew that it already worked and a vital defense program, so was the manhattan ...

Jobs program. liberal organizers in d.c. actually told the "daily caller" that some hispanic protesters marching with this group arent volunteers, that they are holding up signs in english they couldnt even read. if anything makes me mad is a staged, phony protest. i dont know. >> bob: go to a tea party protest on the mall. plenty of them. >> greg: nobody is paid to do tea party protest. how ironic is this? you have to pay somebody to protest against capitalism. that makes no sense at all. they ...

Jobs program. liberal organizers in d.c. actually told the "daily caller" that some hispanic protesters marching with this group arent volunteers, that they are holding up signs in english they couldnt even read. if anything makes me mad is a staged, phony protest. i dont know. >> bob: go to a tea party protest on the mall. plenty of them. >> greg: nobody is paid to do tea party protest. how ironic is this? you have to pay somebody to protest against capitalism. that makes no sense at all. they ...

Politics for him. i just wonder whether the american people have really sort of tuned him out by now. like theyve tuned out a lot of presidents after a while. >> i think, joe, they have tuned him out to a large degree. i was with your friends in west chester county, the business council, they all said hi. they were talking, one fellow is prominent in politics saying he thinks the countrys beginning to tune the president out. i will say this, though, the president makes a good point when he says ...

A different message for a different group instead of one overarching theme, which would be aimed at the middle class. what about us? >> well, its funny you interpret it that way. they think theyre actually being a little more defined, a little more on message that theyre trying to -- you know, i talked to somebody close to the campaign who said, you know, the president needs to get out there and say what hes fundamentally fighting for rather than what hes willing to compromise for. right so that...

behind closed doors. >> i remember well one time when i was very little and i was fighting with my brother every other minute and my mother put us in a back room and said dont come out until you got it figured out, we stares at each other for a while but came out friends. >> thanks, senator, murray for confirming congress is just a bunch of feuding children. to me thats proof they dont get it. tonights number, it will warm your heart. military widow who lost her navy s.e.a.l. in comb...