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Those kinds of attack sz that ultimately did slow the republicans back to a balanced budget in the 1990s. >> if i am a democrat they ought to be looking at the results of the 2010 election. what the people want is action, real action on this spending the super majority of people across the country express that desire on tuesday evening. i am hoping that we can get past the silly stuff if you are going to reduce funding for national public television, it doesnt mean the first thing you cut is ses...

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>> reporter: gillespie is also pushing back with an op-ed in the "washington post" where he notes much of the $400 million spent to help elect the obama-biden ticket in 2008 came from undisclosed donors. >> bret: thank you. brit hume has thought option the administration new strategy. good evening. >> hi, bret. attacks by president obama and the democratic party on the u.s. chamber of commerce and others say as much as any poll about the plight of the democrats this fall. the claim of foreign mo...

As a matter of fact, coincidentally, he the las vegas mayor oscar goodman on his program last night in a farce, but hes a farcical guy. >> right. >> and to take an issue like that and having him talking about mexicans picking tomatoes and guatemalans i think that thats going to rub blue state and red state folks the wrong way. >> lets remember this stuff in the congressional record you cant see tone. you cant read tone. just like you cant read in e-mail or read tone in the congressional record. ...

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Steven colbert will actually testify before a subcommittee of the house judiciary committee about the plight that migrant farm workers face. this is part of the united farm workers campaign of take my job. essentially steven colbert went to a farm in new york state and worked for ten hours picking fruit and now wants to give his testimony about picking fruit to this committee about the plight that migrant workers face. many undocumented. >> for ten hours he picked fruit and now hes testifying? i...

Attention they get over this. rather than to the issue itself. >> john iwant to go to you in a minute. heresing a bit more of colbert testifying today. take a listen. >> we know there was a long tradition of great nations importing foreign workers to do their farm work. after all, it was the ancient israelites who built the first food pyramids, but this is america. i dont want a tomato picked by a mexican. i want it picked by an american, then sliced by a guatemalan and served by a venezuelan wh...

>> wait a second, thats a steven colbert character? thats not the real stephen colbert? im shocked to hear that. we didnt know that here in nevada. >> right. >> but seriously, the real problem is what you know. people hold congress in such disrepute already and think its a joke and then they see steven colbert go before congress in character and make these comments, i cant see how that helps the democrats. they can say theyre bringing a higher profile to a big issue, but people see it as a comed...