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Is. there is no need for them to punch down. secondly, he is asked by chris matthews, and one publican that you respect? he has this thing like, no. really? as a whole shtick was that he was the post-partisan, he was the one that could bring people together and you are from indiana. you dont have to name george w. bush, but is there nobody in south bend, indiana, that is a republican? john doe? you seem at the diner on a saturday. it seemed like it cut across what he had been trying to do and bu...

On this issue, everybodys been told its the tea partiers fault. its the tea partiers fault. because of that, they dont feel the need to strike the deals, to bend over backwards to yank people in and make the deals. even today, people will say, you cant make a deal with those crazy republicans. jim, thats how these numbers go up. >> i agree. >> to look like the barack obama of 2008, post-partisan, even if you have mitch mcconnell trying to kill you political, john boehner -- >> the system is not ...

As he got into the white house, that if this moment was to arrive and he was going to continue this war, he was going to have to continue some policies that he personally didnt like. >> sometimes president ford would talk about you know, who won the cold war. and how president reagan certainly got the lions share of the credit. he used to say privately, you know, no president won the cold war. the american people, the american military won the cold war. and in so far as weve had successes in the...

Raw, raw deal. ended up losing her job. might very well get it back, probably by the end of the day shell have an offer to have her job back, but her life will never be the same because of this episode. she got caught up in the media freak show. both sides fed it and then everyone overreacted to it and now were talking about it. >> should she sue breitbart, jonathan? how much of this goes on breitbart and fox and how much goes on the white house and the department of agriculture for a knee jerk ...

Been falling as well. once up get into that white house, you got to cut deals and you got to get things done, otherwise there will be carnage. >> when there is a sex scandal do you notice it bigger news with its a republican than a democrat? because the republicans are more hypocritical on the issue. i think we have a right to criticize president obama because he sold himself as the post-partisan, post-political guy. he sold himself as something new, something transformational to use his words. ...

Unemployment and the president will tell you that is simply not good enough. and so he is going to be judged moving forward on the economy. for some more criticism heres republican strategist kevin madden. >> he built a profile with the american public in 2008 as a centrist, as somebody who is going to change washington. as somebody who was a post-partisan. i think his profile over the last year has really become saddled with the perception that he is somebody who is hyper partisan and somebody ...

Look for him in days and weeks ahead to paint democrat and meek as extremist on the left and republicans and rubio as extremist on the right to cast himself as independent, post-partisan, to do floridas business and resurrect his political fortunes. >> bret: as far as caucusing with republicans will he say that? >> reporter: big, big question. big, big question. running as an independent is one thing. having legislative viability and impact in washington and not being part of the structure is ve...