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Record with a vote like this considering the midterm is next year and these subsequent 2016 general election. >> the fact you see so many say they lean this is a sign its a vote they dont want to have. we know from the lead up to the iraq war that the political calculations you might make on a vote looked entirely different for people like hillary clinton a couple of years later. i dont think members of congress really want to vote on this. the safer vote is probably to vote against it. american...

House. i guess the slight differences, this republicans had the senate back then. they have the democrats do now. but very basic similar parallels between how washington is structured today and how it was back then. >> thats exactly right. the presidents first midterm election, newly elected democrat. a huge backlash from conservatives and they swept into congress. now they controlled the house. massive majority. and what the base really wants is for the new congress, for the new republican cong...

I dont know if that was seriously considered. if she wins south carolina midterm, she becomes a critical power broker in 2016. >> she is always a favorite of sarah palin. she is an attractive indian american and just by the fact that you saw those governors show up with her, shows already how she is a hot commodity. >> i would warn, though. i still remember all of the endorsements in these early states, how important they all were and then the person they endorsed didnt win. kristen, shameless p...

People like dan, your former guest? i met a lot of dans when i was home. the fact were saying to the insurance companies you have to spend the money on your people, not pocketing it, you have to spend 80% of the premiums you get on the people? >> and senator, dont you think. >> weve got medicare people getting -- >> dont you think republicans are pushing so hard against this because they know the generational effect this is going to have? these positive stories the one that i told tonight, theyr...

Making money. god bless them for making money. i want everybody to make lots of money. i love capitalism but that aint an electoral strategy and you read this article and ive heard it -- i hear it nonstop. i hear it from conservative house members. i said this earlier, 95, 96, 97% conservative index ratings with the acu who are saying behind the scenes some of these extremists are killing us and yet nobody will talk on the record and say this on the record and while they cower in the corner, we ...

Its all cake. take away womens rights, take away food stamps from the poor. take away health care. theyre the taking crowd. and by the way, they want to take all their tax money back. meanwhile, if it happens, it would possibly crush republican chances for the midterm in 2014 we can only hope. they could even possibly lose control of the house even though they jerry rigged the hell out of it. some republicans know this and it has made for heated moments at gop town hall meetings this summer. >> ...

Forward. so its just another stupid policy that lawmakers really need to address. >> do democrats have enough oomph to take -- to say that. to take this on and to run on it in 2014 and 16? >> the real answer is probably no, because the reality is, most people who vote, when youre sitting in front of a democratic map, youre looking at the voters, prime voters. most people who vote, particularly in a midterm election, are going to be people who go to work for a living and probably who make a littl...

Beat. we heard from jay carney and heard it from the president and jack lew, phony scandal, smarted political move? what is thinking behind it? >> it takes the focus off the event and makes it is this a scandal or not a scandal and not what happened and fact its republicans. republicans with their approval ratings, they could go lower but they have continued to drop. >> i agree. i think it does skip. its one of those things it sticks for the president. what will be interesting is if the scandals...

Beat. we heard from jay carney and heard it from the president and jack lew, phony scandal, smarted political move? what is thinking behind it? >> it takes the focus off the event and makes it is this a scandal or not a scandal and not what happened and fact its republicans. republicans with their approval ratings, they could go lower but they have continued to drop. >> i agree. i think it does skip. its one of those things it sticks for the president. what will be interesting is if the scandals...

Wait until the midterm. they have got to get that election into the barn before they can start handing out the goodies. >> bill: detroit will never come back. it is out as a major city and will never come back. all right, we just saw you and victoria jackson in the mid 80s, the little hair deal w. was a little differently. >> yeah. >> bill: what do you remember about that time? i mean, i like victoria jackson. i dont think the communists are going to start executing the christians any time soon,...