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Really working out policy issues, to a congress that is really working out fund-raising issues is profound. and its really just in the last 20 years. this is not something that was 30 years ago. >> that is a really important point. in terms of not feeling hopeless about it and angry about it in an impotent way. it wasnt always this way and doesnt have to be this way. what got us to this point? >> newt gingrich got us to this point. when republicans took over the control of the house and the hous...

Obamabots or obama drones for continuing to support the president of the united states. and i just really want to put my finger on this and say that that is precisely the kind of infant lizing of adult persons who are citizens of these united states. that is so troubling. and it was troubling to hear herman cain do it. it is trouble when it happens from white allies on the left. african-americans make choices like other citizens based on a wide variety of policy issues. it just turns out that co...

Dont agree with him on policy issues. you can point to many things he has done that were sensitive to ethnic minorities. this all comes as perry falls behind in the latest abc news/"washington post" poll, showing mid romney leading at 21%. herman cain with 14%, rick perry also with 14%. this poll was taken as if chris christie were in the race. he came in with 10% in a statistical tie with sarah palin and ron paul. kri stay and palin have not announced whether they will make presidential runless...

Not necessarily for their enthusiasm for barack obama and joe biden but because explicitly they were turned off by sarah palin running as john mccains running mate. it would make sense why the palin phobic donors wouldnt want to support rick perry. why wouldnt they support chris christie? substantively when you look at the things they support, theres not much daylight between chris christie and mitt romney. theyre offering the same things roughly speaking on the most important policy issues. may...

Pushing his reelection as anybody in the country. we dont criticize him. i dont think any member of the cbc has criticized president barack obama. there have been disagreements from time to time with policy issues. >> right. >> and mainly about targeting. >> congressman, the presidents reelection campaign, speaking of targeting, is launching what it calls "operation vote," an effort to reach ethnic, religious and other voting groups. what do you think of this? and will the president have a probl...

Sides of a card. they were in pencil or pen, whatever he carried that day. this was ammunition. every morning after he put a suit on, he would pick what cards he wanted to use that day and put it in the suit pocket, had a speech and insert various lines. he tried in a reagan speech to have probably two jokes and two bits of -- >> uma: system of the reflections, some of the statements, classic lines like flattery is what makes husbands out of bachelors. money may not buy you friends but it will h...

House is, weve raised up a little bit of our credit card debt and you just say, im not paying the bill. >> youre going to prioritize your mortgage payments and not pay anything else. people say we can pay the interest and well be fine. we have revenue to pay the interest, but were not going to have enough revenue to come in and pay a lot of our non-discretionary spending. >> mark is a friend of our show. mark, are there those who say raising the debt ceiling is not a policy tool but what do you ...

Reduction? >> not that i am aware of. it was a big dinner and what does help the cause of bipartisan cooperation is that sitting down with one another, and having conversations and realizing that through the conservations that there are shared values and shared goals and that just the having an event like that is useful in and of itself. now i dont want to overstate it, because there have been dinners here in the past with bipartisan members of congress, but it is part of an overall effort to br...

Ceiling in the u.s., is the white house making any progress on the talks with the republicans on how to deal with that? >> well, it is am complicated process, the debt ceiling and as you know the secretary of the treasury issued a letter because of the extraordinary measures that the treasury department is able to take and the administrations before this have taken place and the revenues have come in slightly above more than expected, the deadline is pushed back by three weeks, but that is an es...

Disagreement and honest disagreement of how to get from here to there and how to get the result in the case of deficit reduction. the result that both parties and the president agree on which is in this case $4 trillion of deficit reduction over 12 years. so that in and of itself is a unifying point, and the president looks forward to the negotiations that will begin at the blair house led by the vice president, and obviously, that is the first of many meetings we hope. we hope it is productive ...