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The chamber c.e.o. criticizing the administration for government expansion and what he calls suffocating regulation and for going beyond whats needed to keep the economy out of the depression. he says that instead of continuing their partnership with the business community and embracing proven ideas for job creation, the administration has been attacking and demonizing key industries. of course, with midterm elections approaching, the white house continues to have a tough sell with the message t...

Process, we would say no. vote yes if you believe its the right thing. >> i will not yield to the gentleman and the gentleman will observe regular order. >> joining us now, jake and matt. is this the type of passion democrats need heading into the midterm? >> absolutely. its about time. its way past the time to go on the offense and stay there. for so long, republicans attack, attack, attack, and democrats react. its so great to see a democrat not cowering. hes right on the issue, why let republ...

Day. something to do with preparing, getting ready and then once the trial began and then suddenly once the trial was over, all he has to do is sit there and rewait. reminds me a lot of a presidential campaign. you have the campaign going on. and then comes election day. grinds to a halt. the difference is in a campaign, you know youre going to get results within the next 12 hours or so. here, no one knows how long it will take. >> great way to put it. john yang having to camp out there at the c...

Or toss up races. michael smerconish, good to see you today, michael. let me ask you, robert gibbs really shook the tree there, but will we see some action with democrats and their campaigns and even an inspired group of voters ready to do something different in the midterm? >> the conventional wisdom is that this was a battle dry that he was sounding in early to mid summer to try and fire up the troons and let them know what the takes are. i have a slightly different take, i think its partly th...

America come november. asked if they would vote, 72% of republicans said yes, just 49% of democrats did, a dangerously large divide for the party in power. after a bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders, president obama was critical of all the focus on the midterm horserace. >> and everyone understands that were less than 100 days from an election. so during this time that the noise and the chatter about whos up in the polls and which partys ahead threatens to drown out just about everyth...

Can also say, you know, that was before the internet for heavens sake. politics have changed a great deal. for that reasons comparisons dont make a lot of sense. what is true is that in 1994, midterm, we lost control. that was after 50 years of democrats having control of the house. in this case, it has not been very long since the republicans had control of the senate, the house and the white house and people remember and democrats can make a very vigorous case about do you want to go back beca...

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Congressman jim clyburn, the house majority whip. good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you so much for having me. >> do you think the senate should have stayed in to take care of these issues before going on break? do you agree with your colleague, mr. mcdermott? >> that would have been a good approach to take. i was certainly willing to stay around. of course, we had already passed a bill, but it was a little bit unseemly for us to be taking july 4th break knowing full well that there are...

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