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In the beltway right now, all they ever talk about is the deficit. thats true for a long time. so is -- part of the reason democrats dont get kridt for having passed health care reform, they havent sold it to the beltway chattering class as antideficit policy making? >> the deficit is an important issue. why would anybody care about the deficit as a republican? go look for the deficit. its no reason we need to concede that as i recall the last time the budge was in surplus was under a democratic...

Election in november, if the election is about the disappearance of the middle class and the challenges of the middle class, what does that mean the specific issues are that these candidates will be running ads on and competing on right down to the wire in november? >> well, two things that come to mind are rising health care costs and education, or what the middle class says are the two things that matter most to them, that they see. then, how do we become more competitive? theyre completely in...

Of who was looking out for the middle class, who was looking out for the american dream of getting ahead by working hard, the american treme that you can get a college education if you are smart enough and you work hard enough. if big national elections in america turned on isues like that, this dumb student loan issue would be issue a. its not. at least its not yet, but james carville, the political strategist who got bill clinton elected president, has a plan, and these figure prominently in t...

Is a good issue. a good political issue. i think it will resonate with people and i think theyll understand it. i really do. >> one of the things you write about in the new book is this idea that democrats have to take themselves -- take the issue of programs like social security and medicare very, very seriously. they need to be seen as uncompromising defenders of the programs that the middle class defend depends on. how did we end up, democrats willing to question those programs. some democrat...

Be a good americans and were going to cut the social security you paid into so we can pay for the garbage we did, and people say we dont want to do that. then the conclusion is theyre selfish, no, theyre just not stupid. theyll pay for social security if its to strengthen social security for their retirement. they wont pay for mistakes washington made in the past. > the biggest problem we have in our country is the deficit. so if you look at that, and you say, lets cut entitlements. because that...

Maid, i might have another idea about going deeper into it. >> on that issue, health care costs coming down would have this huge impact on the deficit. in the beltway right now, all they ever talk about is the deficit. thats true for a long time. so is -- part of the reason democrats dont get credit for having passed health care reform, they havent sold it to the beltway chattering class as antideficit policy making? >> the deficit is an important issue. why would anybody care about the deficit ...

America were fought on the basis of who was looking out for the middle class, who was looking out for the american dream of getting ahead by working hard, the american dream that you can get a college education if you are smart enough and you work hard enough. if big national elections in america turned on issues like that, this dumb student loan issue would be issue a. its not. at least its not yet, but james carville, the political strategist who got bill clinton elected president, has a plan,...

Co cost? they would like to bring back the old system. the boston globe dit a long piece on the proposal talking to education experts about it. even the right wing education experts they could find to talk to about it said it was ridiculous. literally, that is a quote from one education expert who said hes a republican voter who is likely to vote for mr. romney for other reasons. but quote, on this issue, romney is just ridiculous. his campaign staff doesnt have any new ideas so they said lets j...

A good political issue. i think it will resonate with people and i think theyll understand it. i really do. >> one of the things you write about in the new book is this idea that democrats have to take themselves -- take the issue of programs like social security and medicare very, very seriously. they need to be seen as uncompromising defenders of the programs that the middle class defen depends on. how did we end up, democrats willing to question those programs. some democrats are willing to t...

Just talk about the direct -- >> talk about the long-term benefit to the middle class. and then they will go along with that. but its just the way they think. but they know how much trouble theyre in. they know what theyre having to do, and they want somebody to show them that theres a way out. and the person that does that is going to be rewarded. >> yeah. democratic strategist, james carville, the leading strategist in bill clintons presidential campaign, co-author of the new book, "its the mi...