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Budget is not getting their kids braces, and thats what theyre worried about right now, how theyre going to pay for things like that. >> as you and i have been discussing, chris, we see this in the poll, but we also see that theres kind of pocks on both your houses reaction here. where republicans are getting blamed more, yes, but the republican has taken a bit of a hit. >> most polling suggests that before we go into the sequester and the theory is making after the sequester hits, this will cha...

Republican governor rick scott actually agrees writing to the president, he says, quote, the impacts on floridas military installations and defense industries will be severe under sequestration. our immediate concerns include dramatic reductions to our national guard, which threatens our ability to respond to wildfires this spring and hurricanes this summer. oh, do they need federal funds to do that? what a handy reminder. governor scott, of course, blamed the president for the sequestration pro...

Give up little bit of revenue. i think he knows that they wont do it. >> yeah, i think at this point we are the stage where this is all for public consumption, unless there are some talks going on deep, deep in the background, underground somewhere that nobody knows about. it looks like this is all preparation for what happens on friday morning after the sequester hits, and then everybody says oh, how do we fix it. >> eugene robinson, great to have you on the "ed show" tonight. thanks for being ...

The republicans. i think thats unlikely, and the polling shows thats unlikely. >> you know, listening to the president talk today, he wants to compromise. he almost gets the feeling he would give away the farm if they give up little bit of revenue. i think he knows that they wont do it. >> yeah, i think at this point we are the stage where this is all for public consumption, unless there are some talks going on deep, deep in the background, underground somewhere that nobody knows about. it looks...

Do it. >> yeah, i think at this point we are the stage where this is all for public consumption, unless there are some talks going on deep, deep in the background, underground somewhere that nobody knows about. it looks like this is all preparation for what happens on friday morning after the sequester hits, and then everybody says oh, how do we fix it. >> eugene robinson, great to have you on "the ed show" tonight. thanks for being here. share your thoughts with us on twitter and ed show and on...

All of us are concerned about our politics, both in our own parties as well as the other parties. but at some point weve got to do some governing. >> president obama speaking today to the nations governors, with just four more days until the sequester hits, the white house is sounding an alarm, with a new report with details on how it will hit all 50 states. and the state by state calculations are pretty grim. no area or issue goes uncut from law enforcement to clean air and water programs. we w...

All of us are concerned about our politics, both in our own parties as well as the other parties. but at some point weve got to do some governing. >> president obama speaking today to the nations governors. with just four more days until the sequester hits, the white house is sounding an alarm, with a new report with details on how it will hit all 50 states. and the state by state calculations are pretty grim. no area or issue goes uncut from law enforcement to clean air and water programs. we w...

Children out there who want santa claus to come year round, but that doesnt happen. so these companies, they should be grateful that the federal government gave them this student for the last two years, but look, they havent fallen off a cliff and havent dried up. look back to where we were in december where they said theyre going to spend and were at 4% higher than the year before. and if you look at the bloomberg consumer comfort index, half the of americans are saying their personal finance t...

Fairly good job in winning over the american mainstream. its republicans who are really suffering, however. there is ample polling data this week that shows republicans are on the wrong side of the american mainstream when it comes to the sequester, when it comes to spending, when it comes to compromise. when you look at this larger arc, i think its fair to say when it comes to the message war, democrats are coming out ahead. and that matters, of course, next week. republicans are thinking if th...

Welcome back. with one week before the sequester hits, no signs of progress on a deal and no meetings set between the president and congressional republicans. the president met just a couple of hours ago with democratic governors who will hold meetings this weekend in washington with their republican counterparts. >> our message to our republican governors this weekend will be quite simple. speak up. stand up. or be part of the problem. ask your friends in the republican congress to do the sensi...