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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...

The two trains and a bus rider. the "ill sleep when its done" academic. for 80 years, weve been inspireby you. and weve been honored to walk with you to help you get where u want to be. ♪ because your moment is now. let nothing stand in your way. ♪ >> greta: sarah palin is still with us. last night there was a lot of discussion with the sputnik moment the president talked about. do you an go with him? is this our moment?

About. do you agree with him? is this our moment? >> that was another one of those wtf moments, when he has so often repeated this sputnik moment -- >> is she trying to to be presidential? >> andrea, look -- >> there is is strange. >> here, ive written about this. this is not an original thought. here what happens i believe in my heart about sarah palin. shes the closest thing to a talk radio show personality who is also kind of a hybrid national figure politician that weve ever had. she says an...

Didnt just surpass the soviets, we unleashed a wave of innovation that created new industries and millions of new jobs. this is our generations sputnik moment. >> sean: this is a man who last year single handedly took an ax to nasas budget. at the time neil armstrong warned the presidents plan would cause this nation to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. the space race was the result of the cold war not indiscriminate government spending. the presidents shout outs to communist regime did...

>> balloon head. >> what was she doing looking at the wrong camera? >> i call her a balloon head for a reason. >> who looks at the wrong camera? who looks at the wrong camera. >> good evening from new york. im lawrence odonnell. today president obama reiterated his state of the union call for a new sputnik moment in america, by visiting wisconsin where a piece of the soviet satellite sputnik crashed nearly 50 years ago. the visit to the 2012 battleground state included quick tours of renewable e...

>> that was another one of those wtf moments that when he has so often repeated the sputnik moment that he would aspire americans to celebrate. he needs to remember what happened back then with the former communist ussr and their victory in their race to space, they won but they incurred so much debt that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the soviet union. >> there you have it, sarah palins analysis of the state of the union address. >> man. did we just turn off the lights of the campaig...

Impressive. cbs, 91% approved. cnn poll, 84% positive reaction. 52% very positive reaction to the speech last night, so it reminds me of one of those clinton speeches when all the experts said too much detail. the public loved it. your thoughts? >> i heard some of the commentators say too little detail, and i think they missed what was going on as we often do. people out there in the country heard a very powerful narrative, rooted in american history, saying we could be first to the future and d...

And that hasnt happened. i hope mark halperin is right, that we wont see this happen through the budget process. i think it is san opportunity lost where the president could have called for a sputnik moment and called for a sputnik activity or sputnik commitment. i didnt see that. so -- but unless we tacking the entitlements, everything else is just around the edges. >> mark, i think its sad that you believe that this president, instead of leading, is saying im going to wait for the republicans ...

It at your house for more than a decade and you have never had staten island answered. driving through doesnt count. you have to go there and do something. never once. ive asked new yorkers for years. never once has the answer been statin eye land. >> with us on set with have msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halperin and former adviser to president george w. bush and currenter to the daily beast, mark mckinnon and in washington, msnbc political analyst pat buchanan. yes, h...

Their municipal bonds. this is the debt thing you mentioned. 70% of the public debt, its 70%. the chinese and others have to finance that. when are they going to stop doing it? >> its a great question. the cbo puts the national unemployment rate above 9% through 2011 and 8% through 2012. falling to a more natural rate only in 2016 when it estimates if will reach 5.3%. new projections show social security running permanent an qulul deaf sits unless congress acts to shore up the program. >> mark...