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All we needed with the mostly reliable conservative vote from roberts. and wham! just like that, one man changed his mind and changed america from a free market capitalist society to a place where socialism is no longer a dirty word. sadly, cbs reported chief justice roberts was kill the bill vote until the 11th hour flip-flop. so what would cause an aboutface? kimberly, judicial activism, judicial statesmanship or maybe just benedict arnold maneuver? >> kimberly: can i choose all three? its a l...

Difficult when people wax nostalgic about the lbj days and getting big things done, there was not the incremental scrutiny of every step they took. >> the sausage making. you saw the sausage at the end and you didnt see all the steps. >> its all laid there now, and they both take hits on both sides of the aisle if they work together. i think thats an impediment for them. do they want to? is the spirit of statesmanship ready to break out, sure. its practically tough. well see today. the senate is...

After he said he was concerned the democrats might not move forward. >> right. >> bret: he said to call him. did you? >> were setting up a call. he is travel something he has been busy. what i got out of that little interaction was a display of elder statesmanship. what he basically said was democrats shouldnt use it as if its a political weapon. they should fix the problem. he knows the math. he knows medicare is going bankrupt. the biggest threat to medicare is status quo. if we want to save t...

Too. both parties love to intervene in other peoples business where there are no u.s. interests at stake and where we spend enormous amounts of money on a time when we are nearly bankrupt. that doesnt seem to me to be a wise practice of american statesmanship. >> thats a whole another story. to call the united states bankrupt, deficits, yes, but the economy and this mission in libya are two separate issues. >> they are not separate issues, maam. you are just carrying the water for mr. obama. >> ...

>> this is not a democratic problem. this is a republican problem, too. both parties love to intervene in other peoples business where there are no u.s. interests at stake and where we spend enormous amounts of money on a time when we are nearly bankrupt. that doesnt seem to me to be a wise practice of american statesmanship. >> thats a whole another story. to call the united states bankrupt, deficits, yes, but the economy and this mission in libya are two separate issues. >> they are not separa...

Too. both parties love to intervene in other peoples business where there are no u.s. interests at stake and where we spend enormous amounts of money on a time when we are nearly bankrupt. that doesnt seem to me to be a wise practice of american statesmanship. >> thats a whole another story. to call the united states bankrupt, deficits, yes, but the economy and this mission in libya are two separate issues. >> they are not separate issues, maam. you are just carrying the water for mr. obama. >> ...

Kind of growth that ronald reagan was able to inspire with his tax cuts in the early 1980s. this can be done but it takes discipline and statesmanship instead of the cowardly political pandering that has led to the big spending. >>neil: even reagan not even 18 months into the presidency expressed how tough it was to chop government down to size and he would always fight this war with the bureaucrats, the nameless bureaucrats, who are in all the institutions who protect their feifdoms. and presid...

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