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Something asked about before. that would seem to be run for republicans. that is their leverage. that is precious to them. this is the president speaking firmly about his belief that the debt ceiling must be part of a broader package of negotiating. >> i want to send a clear message to people here. we are not going to play the game next year. if congress in any way suggests theyre going to tie negotiations to debt ceiling votes and take us to the brink of default once again as part of a budget n...

Broken. if its not via the bush tax rates it are be via the tax cuts. i dont know what this means for his long term clout. in the short term i think hes going to have to do some rebuilding. hes going to have to try to buck up people. hes going to have to go out there and create consequences politically for the people who violated the pledge. >> indeed. arch enemies behind the camera. sam stein and ryan grim, both of the huffington post. thank you for joining me today. >> thank you. >> coming up,...

Sam stein and ryan grim, both of the huffington post. thank you for joining me today. >> thank you. >> coming up, two last word exclusive ls. first up, college student duncan takes on supreme court justice scalia over his laws comparing bans on sodomy to bans on murder and bestiality. duncan joins me and law professor jonathan turley. and when the show ended george and lawrence did not stop the conversation. the part of the exclusive interview you didnt see is tonights last word. and if you th...

To make sort of big change, being in government isnt necessarily the place to do that. and weve spent a lot of time talking about grover norquist, another person out of government in the mind of everyone serving in government. and that is a way to make change. >> ryan, we talked about the heritage foundation. and if he is going to be an activist, is heritage the right place to go? senator demint is the one who said if were able to stop obama on the affordable care act, it will be his waterloo. i...

To worry about. >> ezra klein and ryan grim, thank you for joining me on the latest twists and turns. coming up, president obama is not going to let the republicans forget that they lost the election because they campaigned to keep taxes low for the top income earners in america. and mitt romney is looking for a new job and republicans are looking for a new leader and democrats might already have their next leader for the next presidential election. and in the rewrite tonight, in praise of...

Cnn poll shows that 45% of americans would blame congressional republicans if no deal is reached and 34% would blame president obama. i dont think grover is going to turn that around. >> no, i dont think grover is going to turn that around and i dont think that hes right that tea party 2 will dwarf tea party 1. >> he is so wrong. >> but i do think that there is true to the fact that there is already a backlash from the ultra right, grassroot tea partiers that are still out there upset with boehn...

Credibility. they could, you know, theoretically, you know, force the country into a default by simply refusing to lift the debt ceiling but if they go through the scenario that they lay out and i think that thats an extreme long shot, by that point they would have been so beaten up they wouldnt have the political capital to have the last stand in front of the debt ceiling. they will have been getting rolled for several months in a row. so why all of a -- they dont have the spine right now to st...

Erskine bowles offered to the super committee that they are using now, for complicated reasons it it would now be worth $950 million in tax increases. so even in the kind of world of the bowles plan and muchless simpson/bowles plan, this isnt quite right there. >> ryan, do they think that one democrat in a world who is not in office anywhere and theoretically compromising with him even though he says, hey, thats not a workable deal, do they actually think thats a presentable step towards the pre...

Ill be honest with you, lawrence, i have tried and tried and tried to figure out what the political advantage of doing that would be for the republicans. ive had no success figuring out the strategy behind that plan but certainly there are smarter minds than mine over there. maybe they have some idea of where getting the tax cuts done will help them and not the democrats. >> im going to read what abc is actually reporting about this. they say, house republicans would allow a vote on extending th...

Cnn poll shows that 45% of americans would blame congressional republicans if no deal is reached and 34% would blame president obama. i dont think grover is going to turn that around. >> no, i dont think grover is going to turn that around and i dont think that hes right that tea party 2 will dwarf tea party 1. >> he is so wrong. >> but i do think that there is true to the fact that there is already a backlash from the ultra right, grassroot tea partyiers that are still out there upset with boeh...