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Worker entitlements in greece, ireland, and spain have just been ruined those economies. the democratic party doesnt seem to understand that. but now i believe most americans do. and thats the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction. joining us from washington, two democratic congressman charles rangle from new york and luis gutierrez who represents a district in illinois. congressman gutierrez, we will begin with you. the neighbors in wisconsin, your neighboring state, will have to give b...

Countries. worker entitlements in greece, ireland, and spain have just been ruined those economies. the democratic party doesnt seem to understand that. but now i believe most americans do. and thats the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction. joining us from washington, two democratic congressman charles rangle from new york and luis gutierrez who represents a district in illinois. congressman gutierrez, we will begin with you. the neighbors in wisconsin, your neighboring state, will hav...

Tend to vote democratic. the process to get them signed up must be stopped. last time legislators did what these senators have done, last time they fled the state to block legislature from doing something it was over again republicans using public policy for partisan purposes. using public policy to try to institutionally disadvantage the democratic party so democrats cant win elections. it was in the great state of texas that relates to the thing tom delay is going to jail for. he took corporat...

Playbook. >> i understand your buddy mike allen sat down with paul ryan who says that he will do what the president didnt do in his budget and go after entitlement reform. lets listen. >> if you get your handle on this problem, start reforming entitlements in a smart, methodical way, it will be european austerity for everybody. >> are we talking about minor tinkering or more? >> i think its important you to entitlement reform, were looking at all the entitlement programs. were not taking any ent...

Critical here is that they all work for what is best for egypt. i think that if this is a long, protracted struggle, no one will benefit, the country wont benefit, and only the extremes will benefit. i think if we see some concrete reform -- steps leading toward reform, and the kind of restructuring that is necessary, that, in fact, in egypt, only the president can initiate, then i think, perhaps, the relationship between the president and the people and whenever the transition, however the tran...

Restructuring. and branch closings and layoffs. that i know were very painful to make. for my administration it meant a series of emergency measures that i would not have undertaken under normal circumstances. but that were necessary to stop our economy from falling off a cliff. >> remember, president obama and the chamber of commerce went at it last year during the midterps but absent from his speech yesterday were the barbs. they spent more than $50 million to cast the president as a threat to...

Thats what hes banking on. the sense of the futility of all of this. the sense to say this is radical. he already said he is going to step down in september, why not accept this. a rather shrewd move to let the movement itself dissipate under its own internal pressures. >> the protesters themselves have cited what happened in tunesia as their inspiration for rising up in the way they did specifically on january 25th. is there anything out there thats likely to be a continued catalyst, to give th...

The sense to say this is radical. he already said he is going to step down in september, why not accept this. a rather shrewd move to let the movement itself dissipate under its own internal pressures. >> the protesters themselves have cited what happened in tunisia as their inspiration for rising up in the way they did specifically on january 25th. is there anything out there thats likely to be a continued catalyst, to give them continued momentum to keep mobilizing people under difficult circu...

Thats when he is banging on. the sense of the futility. the attempt to say this is radical. he said he would step down so why not accept it. it dissipates under their own pressures >> they cited what happened in tunisia as their inspiration for rising up and the way they did specifically on january 25th. is there anything out there that is likely to be a continued catalyst to give them momentum to keep mobilizing people under difficult circumstances? >> like you mentioned, they are starting to t...

Over from across the street, and look, maybe if we had brought over a fruitcake when i first got in we would have gotten off to a better start, but im going to make up for it. the truth is, this isnt the first time ive been to the chamber. or the first time that weve exchanged ideas. over the last two years, ive sought advice from many of you, as we were grappling with the worst recession that most of us have ever known. its a recession that led to some very difficult decisions. for many of you,...