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Our own individual liberty. >> neil: sequestration. life narrowly seems to be going on. are you surprised? >> the dow hit an all-time high yesterday. there has got to be a discount factor in the marketplace because we have such a dysfunctional congress. my only comment is can you imagine what the marketplace book like today. energy is coming back. housing starts is coming back. looking at education reform. lots of good things are happening. i have never been more optimistic about where the econo...

Leave your hurling. one of the economic advisers clearly threatening one of the most celebrated journalists in washington apparently because bob woodward wasnt saying the administration line in washington. sperling blasting woodward for saying the president was changing the sequestration debate by moving the gold post and demanding revenues, i.e. taxes, when all side is agreed about at it all about the size of the pending cuts. i want you to folk tuesday on that portion of sterlings e-mail to wo...

President said the state of the union, he didnt say strong, he said stronger. and a lot of us thought, stronger than what? but we need to make the case on what america shall be and should be and that means bigger ideas, and that means laying out some things. to the future of this, i would say we have the sequestration debate right ahead of us. the president lectured us on that. that was his idea. he needs to take the blame for sequestration. i dont think we get a lot done in that battle. i dont ...

Because they have no confidence in sure ty in the marketplace. we have a democrat senate that hasnt produced a budget in four years! thats the only thing theyre charge to do do is get a budget. the president submitted a budget, yet not one democrat will vote for it. until we get our fiscal house in order, but you guys cant even get a budget through the senate. >> rick: brad, i got to ask you, because the republicans, talking about getting their house in order, the republican party is split on a ...

Gigantic political cop-out. thats what the sequestration debate has turned into. the president refuses to lead, no one will talk details how to address our debt crisis and the deficit and debt crisis, everyone is entrenched in their positions and sitting back and saying, i think sequestration is going to happen. you know who is going to take the brunt of it. the across the board nature of the cuts are going to hurt our ability to train and maintain, vehicles, ships and airplanes and the things t...

Is nine more months to go. now, of that $195 billion, $150 billion comes from the middle class. $45 billion comes from those folks in the top 2% who obama wants to raise their taxes anyway. the next item, as you may remember, is a 2% payroll tax credit that people got as part of an anti-recession measure a couple years ago. that also expires, $116 billion coming out of consumers pockets. you have the alternative minimum tax which is this complex tax calculation that is hitting more and more of t...

40, those will keep going up. its going to be like a lot of governors that get elected with such a high negative rating, that they cant govern. >> i think the obama campaign perceived that and started that choice ad the other day. >> the positive one. >> which i think is the best ad of the campaign so far. >> steve schmidt i dont see how either two, i dont mean to be negative in july, i dont see given the current climate and the billions of dollars of ads that are going to be spent over the next...