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Fight and will be some at least short-term casualties in terms of furloughing and cuts to things that everyone agrees we should be spending money on. >> a perfect segue for me. democrats want the fight. the republicans perhaps dont. fantastic article today in "washington examiner" which i read all the time. >> no, you dont. >> by bryon york, the effect of boehners argument is to make obama seem reasonable in comparison. after all, the president certainly agrees that boehner that the sequester cu...

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The poll also finds less than one-third of americans would blame the president if the sequester cuts kick in. nearly half of all americans would blame republicans. and on the issue of immigration, half of those polled say the president is taking the right approach. 33% endorse how republicans are attempting to tackle the issue. >> republicans seem to have all the advantages. i mean, democrats seem to have all the advantages right now, dont they? >> the republicans are on a roll. its not easy to ...

Laid off or kids not have access to head start, or deeper cuts in student loan programs just because you want to protect a special tax interest loophole that the vast majority of americans dont benefit from. thats the choice. thats the question. >> gretchen: i dont understand is, in the debates way back before the election in november, the president said that he wanted to solve this sequester problem. if you are the president of the united states, dont you have the power to figure out how to sol...

Sell pies and push the nra agenda. the beltway press takes their eye off the ball, complaining about obama and tiger woods. the least popular senator is desperately attacking ashley judd. and david corn, the co-author of "hubris" and co-author of the msnbc documentary tells me what was left out. >> im sure the administration cooked the books. >> good to have you with us, folks. thanks for watching. keep in mind when you hear the word "sequester," the sequester cuts were designed to be so bad...

He made the strongest case yet about the damage these sequester cuts will do to the countrys economy. >> these cuts are not smart. they are not fair. they will hurt our economy. they will add hundreds of thousands of americans to the unemployment roles. this is not an abstraction. people will lose their jobs. >> people standing with the president today are among those who will directly impacted by congress if they refuse to act. >> emergency responders, like the ones who are here today, their ab...

The least popular senator is desperately attacking ashley judd. and david corn, the co-author of "hubris" and co-author of the msnbc documentary tells me what was left out. >> im sure the administration cooked the books. >> good to have you with us, folks. thanks for watching. keep in mind when you hear the word sequester, the sequester cuts were designed to be so bad, so terrible, that lawmakers would be forced to come up with an alternative plan. well, that didnt work. with these cuts are on t...

Odonnell. the president will kipitch this program that includes $50 billion for transportation infrastructure and a public-private partnership to attract financing that they have as a partnership to rebuild america and cutting red tape to get permits. sounds like a decent start. >> those are well-tested ideas. they like to see government deal with red tape and infrastructure is popular. those are solid ideas that the president can try to campaign on, if you will. he has the power of the office a...

But the revenue should be used to lower rate across the board. tax reform is a once in a general race opportunity to lose job creation in america. it should not be squandered to enable more washington spendal. spending is the problem and must be the focus. he continues, washington democrats newfoundbe concern about the presidents sequester is appreciated. the words alope wont avert it. replacing the sequester will require a plan to cut spending to put us on the path to a budget that is balanced ...

But the president will talk in about 90 minutes from now. what does he say? what does he do? if anything at this late hour? >> well the president wants to make the case that we need to avoid the sequester cuts at all costs. this is the first, of what i expect to be a series of these kind of presentations where the president comes out and points to areas in which the average american citizen will feel the impact of sequester cuts. today he is focusing on first-responders. but we have to understan...