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In hell so we can cram those people in there. well, look at this. news today. on the tenth anniversary of the invasion of iraq. one of the things we do as a country as policy is we offer grants to the children of service members who were killed in action. so, these kids lose a parent in the war, they can have help from the u.s. government to go to college. only now, those grants are being cut. by more than a third. here you go, kid. sorry about your mom, your dad, go study up on the sequester. l...

Republicans to the table, and the democrats, it was written. >> alisyn: hes not saying it was a cause and effect. but in his brain, he linked it and he also linked it verbally and that has many people upset. why link these two things? he was supposed to be on the floor mourning the loss of these marines. >> steve: in his home state. >> alisyn: and he said, for whatever reason to sequester. they were going to vote on something on sequester and he took the opportunity to link those two. many peopl...

September, he had 61% approval with the moderates, and now its 54%, so he slid 7% with the moderates, and he had just a 37% disapproval rating with them before and now its 42%, and going in the opposite, going in the wrong direction, when it comes to his support for moderates and chris the biggest things that happened as of late have been this whole back and forth over the sequester and these budget cuts and so on. and then, the catastrophic warnings that we received. do you think that those are...

Theyre addressing the problems with infrastructure. theyre encouraging innovation. theyre changing the way government regulations are written and encouraging investment and helping the economy along. of course the failure is still holding the country back. theres a lot that will help the economy. and it provides a model. should washington ever get its act together, there are lots of great ideas out there for how to revive the economy. >> one of the things the report mentions that is happening at...

For -- do not harm. deadlocks and not doing things are good. >> there is nothing but evidence from a progressive perspective that stalemate is the best of the worst options to protect what the american public gets out of government and going forward and getting to a places essentially where one of the two parties boxes enly inoperable and they -- does not become electorally viable. i would argue also that even the pursuit of some type of grand bargaining is actually destructive. it brought us to...

Of new taxes. >> but we never going to get close to the marginal tax rates we had. so -- but the question as to whether or not these budgets are fantastical is also -- we have the sequester now. theres no room -- we have had defacto budgeted what we had. we are seeing competing notions of visions for what the country -- what the government should do at this point. and it is -- the ryan budget basically says the government should just go away. and -- you know, you are not even debating as to whet...

Houses pursuit of the grand bargain has brought us the sequester. >> thats exactly right. you now have two political parties that are further apart ideologically than any point in american history except for the decade of the 1790s and the decade before the civil war. if the republican party wants to repeal everything we have done the last 7 a years, destroy medicare and medicaid, et cet a cetera, nip grand bargaining for them to go with it has to gong long way to doing it. what i see in -- a jo...

To serious attempt at politics again or just wants to continue to be a person that speaks out, as many people do, at this conference. >> yeah, i want to ask you both about this next part here. because the president was speaking to a crowd in illinois on friday, and cracked a joke about all the spending cuts. amie you wrote about this. first lets take a listen to what he said. >> those of you who have chairs, i want to make sure everybody has chairs there. please feel free to sit down. im sorry. ...

>> i would call him -- oh, -- >> just leave it. >> the sequester. handled it like a man out of touch with campaign. >> would you have voted for jd smooth if he as amish? >> no. aka mitt romney. your turn. >> you have to make a note. >> i believe sherrod voted for obama because he is black. you said to the sound man once, you did that handshake you do. >> the secret one in. >> the secret one. >> how did you see that? >> i was spying on you guys. >> i will have to bring this up on thursday. >> i a...

In the the wall street journal, i commend to your readers or watchers, i think i did a pretty good column if i say so myself. i thinks failing at it. overplayed on the sequester, a very liberal agenda and these kind of things like today, this morning, he went on good morning america with george stephanopoulos and implied that the republican agenda was quote, too gut medicare, to gut social security, to gut medicaid and then he goes later-- >> and to hurt children and he mentioned the children ag...