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Have said they wont vote for the ryan budget when it comes up for a vote in the senate. if there are a significant number of republicans who jump ship, especially in the swing states its going to add, i think, to the anxiety and the concern that republican elected officials and strategists have about the medicare issue. its clearly a political problem for them. you can debate whether its a policy problem. we know after new york 26, in the near term this is a political problem they have to try to...

Candidate obama became president obama, he couldnt get tickets to the inauguration. is it a policy problem or personal pique? >> i think the banks are larger than they have ever been, full conal is days, other major industries theres no question we have consolidated power, whoever the president is existed under george bush, created under billlinton and living under barack obama. lets talk about the kids, setting race aside here. should youth votes be worth more? ezra klein making this assertion,...

Again. >> and its a political advantage for president obama, but its a policy problem because the fact is well have to do something with medicare. you cant deal with the exploding deficit -- >> politically was he smart to play possum on this? >> absolutely. and get through the re-election campaign perhaps with this. >> i like numbers that are clear cut. i dont like 50 sh/50 numbers. number of democrats, 5%. thats it. and he knew this months ago. what do you make of the way hes handled this it po...

I want to start with susan. and i want to get to the question. it seems to me that nobody really has a solution. even the poll says modest cuts in medicare and modest increases in taxes. no. they dont want to get hurt again. they are paying big gas taxes, they just paid their taxes, they dont want to get hurt again. >> and its a political advantage for president obama, but its a policy problem because the fact is well have to do something with medicare. you cant deal with the exploding deficit -...

A problem. >> bret: gender equality is an important issue. but in the wake of the issues do you change the radio address? >> thats fair. radio address is a chance to get the countrys attention focused to give money to japan or whatever else you want them to do. fair. but as a policy problem, not just image problem. >> that is it for the panel. stave tuned for former member of the washington bureau commenting on good news.

See him as disengaged that is a problem. >> bret: gender equality is an important issue. but in the wake of the issues do you change the radio address? >> thats fair. radio address is a chance to get the countrys attention focused to give money to japan or whatever else you want them to do. fair. but as a policy problem, not just image problem. >> that is it for the panel. stave tuned for former member of the washington bureau commenting on good news. what can you do with plain mashed potatoes? ...

Here. >> the issue you just raised, why. thats a policy problem. the reason why, why havent we had better regulation around these things? thats a policy issue in the same way we had a housing policy, created the financial crisis. we had a policy around energy. it created this crisis. thats the problem. >> the government gets a percentage, right, of revenue from these wells that come in something like 18%. >> yes, but i dont think anyone -- >> thats actually not true. because the obama administra...

I think his career and the ability to be effective is shot by this. i think he and the president are going to have to have a real heart to heart. its going to be hard to see him continue. by the way, the big news in the story, its the fact that theres this huge gulf between what the civilian people want and what general mcchrystal wants and some sense that they did this on purpose. this is not reassuring to families that we have this going public. i think its going to be very, very hard. this wa...

Lincoln. this is somebody who moveon.org has supported and shes in a real primary. the irony is if she wins the primary, shes actually not that terribly positioned because shes the moderate in this primary. you cant be a liberal democrat and get elected in arkansas. >> so with the polarization, are we looking at a tea party problem? are we looking at a policy problem or are we looking at an incumbent problem? >> i think it is absolutely an incoumbent problem. thats really the issue. you cannot u...

Conservative in connecticut. he is someone who has gotten millions of dollars from labor groups who do not like branch lincoln. her opposition to employee free choice being one thing. she is in a real primary. the irony is if she wins the primary, she is not that terribly positioned, because she is the moderate in this primary. you cant be a liberal democrat and get elected in arkansas. >> with the polarization, are we looking at a tea party problem, at a policy problem or an incumbent problem? ...