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Thats an absolute disgrace. >> thats right. >> congressman, the president was worked with this congress on cuts. hes worked with them on sequester. hes met with them on tax reform. but he doesnt want to negotiate over the full faith and credit of the united states, nor does he believe we should go into shutdown for laws that are good law in the affordable care act. what else can he possibly say today? >> well, i think hes got to be straight to the american people. you have to say listen, we pass...

>> what sort of leverage might they cagain? >> well, it remains to be seen. certainly, theres a lot of jockeying on both sides for leverage. republicans are divided on this obama care strategy. some senators, including senator buhr and senator mccain, dont agree with senator cruz and senator paul that theyre going to get what they want. democrats, on the other hand, theyre at odds with each other on sequester. they dont want to pass any funding bill that continues sequester. fasten your seat bel...

September, 2012 and ended last month. what kind of cutbacks took place? does this have anything to do with the so-called sequester cuts. >> thats the take away. this is pre-existing. >> presequester. it cant be blamed on sequester. >> you can blame it on the general pressures of the entire federal government over the past several years to bring down their costs. theyre been budget cuts to the defense department and the navy. this isnt the sequester, this isnt the thing youve heard washington tal...

Will the reality of how dumb it is do the trick this time? >> i dont think so. matt bennett at third way when the sequester was put in, called it sort of a slow roll disaster and as you showed in your intro, lots of communities around the country had been hit by elements of the sequester until enough members of congress hear from enough people in their districts about the real world impagts of sequester, nothings going to happen with it. the other thing we have to keep in mind is that when we we...

Genius. do not have to look far to see examples of the dumbness of the sequester. there are 41 countries, you think theres a reason to investigate theft, 41 countries, because of the sequester, were only following up on one. the other 40 ripping us off, were just letting them slide. and this is not even to mention the 50,000 american children who have been forced out of preschool because of cuts to federally supported programs, leaving those kids to have to try to raise money for preschool by de...

Hog day when ever we talk about this government shutdown. the sequester, were going to have a debt ceiling. its just because we never fixed this problem and we have to go back and try to fix it again now. i dont know when this starts getting better. just feels like its getting worse. a much needed best new thing in the world is coming up. stay with us. thanks to her double miles from the capital one venture card. now what was mrs. davis teaching? spelling. thats not a subject, right? i mean, spe...

Any way to do anything substantive on sequester is really wishful thinking. >> so, the republicans are threatening to shut down the government again, threatening to bump up against the debt ceiling, which is scary in the long-term because of how expensive it is for us to borrow. the democrats have tried to open up the menu of options to include ficking the sequester. this needs to be decided in very short order. seems like democrats getting what they want is unlikely. republicans getting what th...

Sequester thing in part because republicans said they were so worried about the deficit. we had to take this drastic action even if it was going to be in nonsensical ways that were going to hurt the country and the economy. we had to do something as drastic as furloughing the firefighters who protect our chemical weapons arsenals. turns out actually the deficit is on track to be the smallest its been in five years, but that apparently does not matter. and now, it is that time again. congress is ...

Sequester thing in part because republicans said they were so worried about the deficit. we had to take this drastic action even if it was going to be in nonsensical ways that were going to hurt the country and the economy. we had to do something as drastic as furloughing the firefighters who protect our chemical weapons arsenals. turns out actually the deficit is on track to be the smallest its been in five years, but that apparently does not matter. and now, it is that time again. congress is ...

Was not enough to bring congress around to any sort of long-term budget agreement last time we were in this position. will the reality of how dumb it is do the trick this time? >> i dont think so. matt bennett at third way when the sequester was put in, called it sort of a slow roll disaster and as you showed in your intro, lots of communities around the country had been hit by elements of the sequester until enough members of congress hear from enough people in their districts about the real wo...