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They just want to privatize social security. take a look at what john boehner said about investing your social security on wall street back in 2006. boehner told the "washington times", quote, if im around in a leadership role come january, yep, were going to get serious about it. will the real john boehner please stand up on this issue? boehner is now in the ultimate leadership role in congress. theres no daylight between the new speaker and the suits on wall street. you can believe that. who h...

Month to month and what they do is what this congress and past congressing have been unable to do. figure out what they can and cant afford. families cant put bills off for too long. >> john heilemann, you had to choose. >> the choice was clear. >> im going to decent from the table on the subject. we all applauded the president when he said this is the sputnik moment. we must invest more in education, infrastructure. thats what hes saying. >> who applauded that? >> ive heard you talk about the n...

Its the private sector that can create the jobs. and his theme last night in the state of the union was the wtf. you know, winning the future. and i thought, okay, that acronym, spot on. there were a lot of wtf moments throughout that speech. >> wtf was she thinking? theres more. remember the sputnik moment part of the obama speech? well, it actually doesnt matter whether you remember it because this is sarah palin talking and nothings going to help you make sense of this. >> that was another on...

State of the union address last night. the president kept saying this is a sputnik moment. what kind of moment would you say were in right now? >> well, if you really want to talk about what the sputnik moment is, its the fact that were broke. >> yeah. >> the american people know were broke and they want us to do something about spending. and there wasnt much talk last night about cutting spending and im getting our debt under control. >> and would you cut medicare and medicaid and social securi...

Government and blame you. it is important for republicans to demand real spending cuts. demand real reform of the budget before you give him anything on the debt ceiling. >> sean: i did notice you are not in south carolina, new hampshire, iowa toe is there a particular reason? >> im here with calista in washington getting 8 to 10 inches of snow. >> sean: you guys go make a snowman, thank you. president obama has vowed to freeze domestic spending. how does he plan on paying for all these investme...

Feel my stair. by the way, chris matthews had a sputnik moment while watching the speech. green organization forces kids to make a climate change video. is that right? >> yes. if not i dont see the big deal. >> i see a lot wrong with. it andy. >> you do? >> why? >> i just told you. >> i was president paying attention. >> what happened to you while i was gone? you are not the same person. >> i know. there was a lot of crap in the video. but i dont see the point of using kids to spew crap. >> it...

Today there was an effort to say there are significant challenges ahead but together as a nation they can be met. >> that is the kind of determination to win that america needs to show right now. that is what we need to show. [ applause ] >> we need to win the future. >> reporter: we should expect the president to go out on more trips to sell major themes. >> shep: what is his political opposition saying today? >> reporter: some are challenging the sputnik moment reference when the u.s. met a so...

But will green energy help a country drowning in red ink. correspondent doug mckelway takes a look. >> is it the sputnik moment or space junk, as one republican detractor called it? the presidents call for reinvention of the nations energy policy is rapidly becoming one of the more contentious issues in the post "state of the union" address. the president called for end of tax subsidies to oil companies. more investments in green energy. and a reliance on the full spectrum of all energies from o...

Hes touting north korea, communist china. this is a guy who didnt believe in american exceptionalism, when asked about it. >> the sputnik thing grabbed me, what was he trying to say? remember, the concern about sputnik was the soviet union had launched something into space. the idea was they might be able to, by controlling the high ground of space, gain an advantage in the cold war that would put us at a huge disadvantage militarily. is this our sputnik moment? our response to the aggressivenes...

-- do you agree with him? is this our moment? >> was another wtf moment. the sputnik moment he would inspire americans to celebrate. he needs to remember what happened back then with the former communist ussr and their victory in that race to space, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the soviet union. i listened to that sputnik moment talk over and never again. we need a -- you are one of those reporters who gets out in the communi...