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Lets get more from sarah, check and cat. cat, on that, is it true that they cant re-visit this, wont re-visit this and any behind of fiscal discipline to paraphrase leon panetta is gone? >> i think i would be so surprised that i would die. its clearly not going to happen. rand paul was the only one to come out and actually say hey, remember that spending stuff and that debt stuff that we as republicans were so concerned about when obama was president? why arent we talking about that anymore? the...

Companies needs. what insurance company is going to get into the market when there may be a totally different law that has different regulations on how we provide health insurance to our customers. that is why this is so problematic and why they are really trying to thread a needle here but the threat is invisible. >> julie: the biggest reason this is problematic is because republicans do not have the votes to pass this health care bill. democrats are not going to oblige as long as the g.o.p. wa...

Things. we are -- we are talking about barbie dolls and legos. you mentioned to me during the break that parents are spending stuff on staples this year. >> this holiday season they sit down and say how much money do i have. what do the kid need, what do they want, also they are growing. they have to buy shoes $because they have grown out of those shoes. so they are using christmas to go out and buy those things they will have to buy no matter what. thats one of the reasons you are seeing a lot ...

That creates thousands of jobs every time you switch on a program somewhere. theres a lot of skepticism about that and that is largely the fault of the obama administration and they promised by now, if we passed that stimulus bill, we would have 5% unemployment. real unemployment is 14%. we know that these things are increasingly met with the publics skepticism, not with, oh, joy. when you say a jobs bill, it sounds great, but now people are like, what does that mean? what does it do? they dont ...

Football, the other party not it in power, decides its an of important thing. and president obama used to hate the debt ceilings. its time to build something that controls the deficit properly and not arbitrary. >> brenda: toby, doesnt this basically give a blank check to washington saying we dont need a limit. at least when we have a limit were forced to look at that number and realize how much were borrowing. >> if that logic were true, they wouldnt have passed any of the spending stuff. first...

Do. theyre big things that affect large parts of the population, right? >> they happen to also be the only things that matter as long as long-term debt relief. >> this is where the logic of the grand bargain always made in the abstract always made the most sense because republicans, you know, could -- it was all going to be unpopular. so lets take hard votes that cost your side on taxes, that cost our side on entitlements. we can all get together and hold hands and go off this cliff together. re...

Polling well. and that new poll, the new gallop poll that shows they are if the new positive territory. >> bill: here is the poll. 47% of americans now think the republican party is good. thats up from 34% in november of 2008 when obama won. so thats up 13. >> when the republican party, bill, had come out of a number of years of kind of compassionate conservatism where we were doing big things and we had medicare advancement and prescription drugs and we had all this funding of education, which ...

Polling well. and that new poll, the new gallop poll that shows they are if the new positive territory. >> bill: here is the poll. 47% of americans now think the republican party is good. thats up from 34% in november of 2008 when obama won. so thats up 13. >> when the republican party, bill, had come out of a number of years of kind of compassionate conservatism where we were doing big things and we had medicare advancement and prescription drugs and we had all this funding of education, which ...

Polling well. and that new poll, the new gallop poll that shows they are if the new positive territory. >> bill: here is the poll. 47% of americans now think the republican party is good. thats up from 34% in november of 2008 when obama won. so thats up 13. >> when the republican party, bill, had come out of a number of years of kind of compassionate conservatism where we were doing big things and we had medicare advancement and prescription drugs and we had all this funding of education, which ...

>> bill: mind over matter. okay. now, the republican party as we have been discussing, you know, is basically coming in very, very aggressive. i understand. i think thats a good strategy. they have to stake their turn out very, very quickly for the american public is very impatient with whats been going on. i do believe that the spending stuff far overrides the individual stuff like obama care. am i wrong? >> well, i think they are hand in hand. i think the american people believe that the reaso...