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And you get your health care. you know what? all of those folks that were at that town hall meeting, they dont have the ability to cut any of that for that congressman. its guaranteed. see, this used to be guaranteed. and 80% of the people want it guaranteed because they paid into it for years. but now weve got these radicals and i praise the president for saying its a radical budget because that is exactly what it is. if your mom is in assisted living, your mom and dad are on medicare and a fix...

If youre 50 years old and youve been in congress for 20 years, you get a hell of a pension. and you get your health care. you know what? all of those folks that were at that town hall meeting, they dont have the ability to cut any of that for that congressman. its guaranteed. see, this used to be guaranteed. and 80% of the people want it guaranteed because they paid into it for years. but now weve got these rad cal icals and i praise the president for saying its a radical budget because that is ...

Frankly i think people have a right to be skeptical. >> jonas, it is an election year. thats a great point, i have to say. >> the more i worked on that, you know, pushing off the next budget isnt such a bad idea. its going to be a tough one. theres going to be spending cuts and tax increases but investors dont want to see that this early in the recovery. in europe, theyre trying these cuts and these increases sooner and their stock markets are underperforming ours and invest others dont us to so...

If he wants a bounce, hes got to earn it? its not there yet? >> i think thats right, he has to come out and continue to sell the bill. remember, the white house has said theyre planning a hard pivot here to move on to jobs and some of these other issues like the financial regulatory reform and beating up the banks on wall street. its not clear how much time the president is going to spend trying to sell health care reform, when they have these other issues people on the hill are desperate for th...

Arkansas are associated or members of a union. wheres all this union love coming from from the afl-cio to get you $3 million? are you a beneficiary of people who just dont like blanche lincoln or are you out there doing what you got to do and willing to do what you got to do for the working folk of america? which is it? >> well, ed, ive got a history of working with the state, afl-cio on a very important issue, as you say, a kitchen table issue. the afl-cio was the first group out to work with m...

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Hes employing morons like this. i guess the only morons tell the truth, right? but even mitt romney is starting to talk up his health care record on the stump. >> weve got to do some reforms in health care, and i have some experience doing that, as you know. >> oh, yeah. this is why the joe soptic ad has republicans absolutely scrambling. it puts the gop in unfamiliar territory and drives home a very vital point about the middle class in this country. put yourself for a moment in joe soptics sho...

And causing layoffs and this is really, republicans have looked for years for someone who could make the government burden on government a kitchen table issue and tax and regulate companies that cant hire people, he seems to be that guy. even if youre not a manufacturer, you get a tax cut. >> its a different message than mitt romney, for example, the white house is will already saying that mitt romney doesnt identify with any of you, hes a rich guy, the multiple homes and santorum, they cant mak...

Reagan or if it was george w. bush, hannity, limbaugh, their heads would explode. they would be screaming about the liberal school teachers dishonoring the commander in chief during a time of war. but nobody seems to care about dishonoring the black president. i think a lot of this is motivated by race. there are still millions of people who just dont want to see their kids have any association with anybody whos black. thats right. whats wrong with our country? whats wrong with this picture? i m...