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Long term in american politics. heightened by the fact that liberalism for a long time has been pushing against constitutional limits of government and therefore opening up as government does more things people are either cheered by them or offended by them and so partisanship in a way expands to fill the amount of space government creates for it. >> charles, lets get directly to your book. you write, tempting as it might be to write president obama off, it would be a big mistake, whatever else ...

Yourself, then well find some way to help you but poverty formulas have nothing to do with me. i didnt create these programs so its kind of a stupid point to blame me for poverty -- >> you tried to clarify that kentucky gets a lot of this because you have two big military bases. >> it is and it does have to do with military spending. >> they could say new jersey they have ft. dix, the weapons station, mcguire dix and air force base. >> the bottom line is what this is about is were trying to figu...

That they worked against themselves to a certain degree. and so now i think the white house is waiting for the effect to snowball, as lisa was pointing out, so more and more people feel them. and then they believe they can possibly get republicans back to the table. >> its a reminder of how last week was all about politics and not about finding a solution to this. he may have been raising the expectations of dire consequences far too high. republicans were saying let this play out. the interesti...

Mccass kill never endorsed this level of cuts in the mill tare right-hand shes it is wrong. republicans have the majority the in the house. god knows they dont think these levels of cuts in the military are responsible. why arent they doing anything about it? >> the obvious answer is, first of all, you could try to make a deal. that is not going to happen. the idea of flexibility of transfer authority saying to the various agencies you dont have to cut an equal amount from each budget bucket. so...

Mccass kill never endorsed this level of cuts in the mill tare right-hand shes it is wrong. republicans have the majority the in the house. god knows they dont think these levels of cuts in the military are responsible. why arent they doing anything about it? >> the obvious answer is, first of all, you could try to make a deal. that is not going to happen. the idea of flexibility of transfer authority saying to the various agencies you dont have to cut an equal amount from each budget bucket. so...

Mccass kill never endorsed this level of cuts in the mill tare right-hand shes it is wrong. republicans have the majority the in the house. god knows they dont think these levels of cuts in the military are responsible. why arent they doing anything about it? >> the obvious answer is, first of all, you could try to make a deal. that is not going to happen. the idea of flexibility of transfer authority saying to the various agencies you dont have to cut an equal amount from each budget bucket. so...

Here are two men who have been insiders during the negotiations like this. the former press secretary for congressman darrell issa and the former dccc spokesperson. welcome to you both. >> good to be here. >> thanks. >> how heated is it behind the doors? the house this morning over to the senate harry reid saying it is dead on arrival. it will ping back to the house we think. >> it will ping back to the senate and then go back. right now i dont think there is a lot of activity on capitol hill wh...