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Ought to be worried about it. if you look in the races, ben is exactly right. they were terrible candidates. bevins going up against the republican leader in the senate was never going to work. the man could never put together any real money. the other candidates were different shades of crazy around the country, particularly georgia. so no, i think that the tea party is doing just fine. and you can see it on capitol hill every single day with cuts to nutrition programs and all the other things ...

What the american people want and need that it is literally hard to believe. it is hard to believe. the richest people in this country are doing phenomenally well. the ryan budget substantially lowers taxes for millionaires and billionaires. working families and low income people are struggling. the ryan budget makes savage cuts in nutrition programs, in education, and in health care. it does exactly the opposite of what the merp people need and what the american people want, and as you indicate...

Stamp program. so to me what youre looking at is an ugly kind of class warfare where the people on top want more and more and more. and theyre pushing down in an incredibly terrible way the most vulnerable people in our country. >> lets look who is on food stamps. a new report from the department of agriculture shows 45% of food stamp recipients are children. 9% are elderly. 10% are disabled adults. almost half of the food stamps recipients are children. how republicans choose to make cuts, know...

African-american family. these kind of studies have be done and are very helpful at times. it looks like hes not using the study to be helpful but using the conversations that we understands loosely, if at all about culture to justify cuts in food stamps, cuts in nutrition programs for school that have little or nothing relationship really to me to whether somebody gets up and catches the bus at 7:00 in the morning or has the urge to work or whatever it is that is there. i dont see actually the ...

Raise or elect more democrats that will do it. >> this is an argument hes been making for awhile. whats it going to take for republicans to raise the minimum wage? >> well, i was at that dnc conference and he was on fire and everyone else was and they are going to take this message out to an election. certainly, americans deserve a raise. no worker should have to live in poverty and some corporations give them lessons on how to access food stamps and other government programs, saying we know you...

Ran up a huge deficit. then under obama the republicans come back. they say, gee, we have a terrible deficit. were going to have to cut social security, medicare, medicaid, education, environmental protection. the needs of the kids nutrition programs because of this deficit. so if you are asking me, do i this i that same set of policies will play out? more money for defense, then rising deficits and then cutbacks on programs that middle class and working families need? absolutely, that is what w...

Hearing. >> right. and i mean, you remember during the campaign we had newt gingrich talking about this being the food stamp president. >> right. >> with all the kind of connotations that had. now we actually see some time later we actually are having policies that, you know, if this farm bill the republicans in the house have been working on, if they could convince the democrats in the senate to go along with it, would throw many, many more people off of food stamps and have already cut back in...

Pushing on the food stamps and the nutrition programs. >> and that same team that is willing to shut down the government and that says the government is bad, and that is willing to take food off the tables of poor people are also, sometimes, the very same people getting these massive subsidies or big, crop insurance, that we see in the farm bill. why is it that food stamps are so easily politicized, but the farm part of the farm bill is still kind of off-limits? >> lobbying. >> i love the clear ...

Any case. we want to deny 20 million whats the mood like for the democrats in the house today? americans access to health >> well, you know, reverend al, insurance that they desperately need. so were going to whole the this send the kind of day were entire government hostage, throw people out of work, deny services to tens of millions of doing high-fives. americans. should this have happened? as you reported earlier, the economy has lost about $24 of course it shouldnt. billion. furloughed worke...

Congress. i think thats likely if they do that. and this is to risk the economy, the well being of the united states of america in order to achieve a goal that should be done through regular order. we passed the bill. it was signed by the president. it was ratified by the supreme court as constitutional. this is not the way we decide things here. this is a very dangerous, dangerous strategy, when with the government shuts down, it is likely to do it, because my monday night, its hard to see how ...