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Only bringing in less than 15% of gdp and youre spending over 20%. its almost criminal what the republican party is willing to steal from their grandchildren and our grandchildren. thats the problem, brian. just because its politically popular. >> lets go back to always spending. lets start by going back to a baseline thats defensible. lets talk about take whats left of the stimulus and not spend it. lets take whats left of t.a.r.p. and not spend it. lets prove to the american people that were w...

Radicalize this issue. is this a winning political issue for democrats to go out and paint tea party and tea party supporters at racist or could that come back to haunt them. >> obviously you cant paint with a broad brush. there isnt anybody who has watched the news to disagrees with the fact there were some members of the tea party who just think through a racial prism. that said, i dont think the tea party can be written off at racist and anything suggest to that is a mistake. lets be honest, ...

On these issues that are, at best, not helpful to the party and focus on really the achievements that need to be made, which are creating jobs and getting the economy going again. >> rick: we have to leave it there. >> let me add one quick thing. if president obama inherited the economy george bush inherited as opposed to what he inherited, people would look at this through a different prism. >> rick: you got it in there, the inheriting the economy thing. bound to come up. richard, thank you ver...

Democrs to join us in cutting the budget. we have presented $120 billion worth of budget cuts but to no avoid because neither the president or speaker pelosi seem to want to go along with us. >> well, look. democrats may not want to do spending cuts and republicans dont want to cut taxes. may be a policy judgment you have made but will you just as simply acknowledge that passing these tax cuts worsens the budget deficit problem? >> savannah, lets look at it through the prism of the working famil...

>> lets look at the prism of the working families seeking jobs and the small business people creating them. its not a tax cut theyre looking for. they dont want a tax hike. >> i was just wondering if you had any dispute that w the notion that it does exacerbate the deficit picture. >> what i said in the beginning is if you have less rev flews coming into the federal government and more expenditures, what does that add up to? certainly youre going to dig the hole deeper. >> there he is, congressm...

Point about the explorer is it is the most exported vehicle out of the united states. we export the explorer to 90 countries around the world. so its just another indication that, you know, we believe in the recovery, and were investing in the recovery, and were going to have the products that people really do want and value. >> give me some sense of where, through your prism of seeing workers and seeing car dealers, you think this economy is going to go over the course of the next year. of i kn...

The economy, because friday, as you know, the white house comes out with some painful predictions, and maybe good for republicans, i guess you would say. the deficit 1.4 trillion last year will exceed that, and now the unemployment hovering around 9% through 2012. >> well, you know, first and foremost, because 14 million americans are out of work, and thats a lot of people hurting. but you are perfectly right. its an election year so everything is looked through through the prism of what is goin...

Did like romney last time and who work hard on early organization. you have newt gingrich likely to run and by the end of it, 15 of these guys floating around. maybe another governor or two and then a win knowing of who can raise the money and thats where i think romney and daniels are the two biggest candidates in the race should they opt to run. >> whats the ante this year for being able to raise money? $50 million guy by the end of 11? >> yeah. i think thats the standard ante but if youre fro...

Shirley sherrod, buried in all the things that she said, its not about black and white. its about the haves and have-nots. we see the haves ginning up the have-nots over race. its unfortunate but those are the people, in my opinion, causing a lot of issues. >> david frum raised the point that conservatives circle the wagons. liberals do that as well. i dont want to make this bashing conservatives. it seems ideologs do that. it seems in this day and age, people dont like to just say they were wro...

About lyndon johnson being necessary to push civil rights through and whether that was true or not, the problem is that race gets so ginned up. people like us we can sit around and intellectualize it. it was interesting, shirley sherrod, what she talked about, buried in all the things that she said it wasnt about black and white. its about the haves and have nots and we see a lot of haves who do a really good job of joining up a lot of have nots over race. its unfortunate but those are the peopl...