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Armed soldiers, infantry armored artillery, signal units in some cases and so on. for the combat arms, they are constantly burning up calories. they are in training in the field all the time although that is liable to go down as we dont have enough money to put them in the field with the fiscal cliff. but for a large portion of the military establishment, theyre sitting behind desks. these are enlisted people as well as officers and theyre still eating. >> one of the things weve seen, for exampl...

>> cited for a lets move campaign that didnt take off. >> what? >> the "gq" folks give her an a for effort and a pint of ice cream to treat herself. and he may have come in number two at election day. mitt romney takes the top spot as the least influential person of 2012. the honor was awarded mostly because of a lack of voter enthusiasm. think of it according to the editors like hooking up with the last single person at the bar at 4:00 a.m. ouch. >> weve all done that. >> speak for yourself. >>...

Ground in washington? lets spin about it. i dont think we can eliminate or separate the immigration discussion from the drug war, which stretches across the united states and mexico. part of the immigration discussion and the drug war wrapped up in this fear of, you know, drugs, violence, poor folks participating and escaping from the drug war coming here. america is slowly moving against the war on drugs. its kinld of amazing to see this movement. we see colorado and washington creating a very ...

Approval skyrocketed to 68%. after a peak at 72%, her approval numbers dropped to 66% in 2010 where it has held almost steady for the last two years. she had a 65% favor abilitabili she spoke at the democratic national convention in september. you just cant buy that kind of political capital. in the next four years, how does michelle obama plan to spend that capital. we talked a bit about this sort of, lets move. will we see a more policy oriented nature to that program? more than just sort of k...

Truly shine and people could fall in love with her. we are dealing with the girls and going to college. we are filling out this paperwork. being able to talk about that from first person just like she has done with "lets move." the other thing i think is amazing, is she and dr. joe biden have been very out front on vets issues. >> particularly hiring vets. >> hiring vets and the other thing we have heard from this administration so vocally is about community college kids and the fact that they h...

The guy got out there, was a sexist crude, mean guy, and it led to all sorts of things. you went to the democratic convention, saw fluke and others punching hard bloodying rush limbaugh in terms of politics not bloodying his bottom line not bloodying the big checks he gets to take home which may be all he cares about. what we have to watch for those of us that care about the politics and outcome, who are the responsible people, and can any of us even with disagreements make space for them. i wel...

Not going all the way there on the question of cultural conservativism relation to creationism -- >> here he is this summer, "the slate" wrote about the louisiana science education act of 2008 and its implications by saying the act allows so-called supplemental textbooks and other instructional materials to be brought into classrooms to support the, quote, open and objective discussion of certain scientific theories, including, of course, evolution. as educators who have heard such coded languag...

Trying to figure out how to work around. and a guy like bobby jindal, health care policy is his specialty, hes a guy of science. yet you point out correctly that right now at least so far, hes not going all the way there on the question of cultural conservativism relation to creationism -- >> here he is this summer, "the slate" wrote about the louisiana science education act of 2008 and its implications by saying the act allows so-called supplemental textbooks and other instructional materials t...

Punching hard, bloodying rush limbaugh in terms of politics, not bloodying his bottom line, not bloodying the big checks he gets to take home, which may be all he cares about. what we have to watch for those of us that care about the politics and outcome, who are the responsible people, and can any of us, even with disagreements make space for them. i welcome folks that want to come over, work on some of the problems together. >> and watching the limbaugh versus hannity battle this year is going...

Partisan witch hunt doesnt serve anybodys interest. >> okay. lets move onto the fiscal cliff, gentlemen. and representative davis, we have president obama and speaker boehner. theyre both talking fiscal cliff. republicans are doubling down on their refusal to raise taxes. most economists agree, though, theres simply no way to cut the deficit without raising some taxes. does the gop have to change its tune or amend it in some way? >> i dont think you can solve this without getting into entitlemen...