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>> i dont like the sequester. >> the outrageous, phony fight to blame the president reaches new lows. >> i would liked to have not had the sequester in the first place. >> john boehners sequester lies are exposed. republicans refuse to compromise, and the middle class americans are nine days away from getting the shaft yet again. dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz weighs in. a hack job drives the right-wing assault on president obamas pick for defense. tonight the source of the friends of hama...

The point is at this point, get back to the table and come up with a plan, with a deal. the president has said im willing to meet with you. >> steve, if they say no revenue, where do the democrats go from here? >> i think they dont go niwa. at this point, the process has stalled. there are no talks there are no back channel productions. this are no progress in reaching a resolution and were really only eight days away. democrats cannot cave and give republicans everything they want, even though ...

Put a sign at the beginning of every bridge that says this bridge is structurally deficient. proceed at your risk, and see what political pressure developed to start fixing our bridges. the american society of civil engineers says we have a $2.2 trillion, $2.2 trillion backlog of just getting our roads and highways and bridges and water systems up to a safe, reasonable level. and this kind of cutback that were doing now, this sequester, besides being stupid because its across the board and nondi...

Back to the table and come up with a plan, with a deal. the president has said im willing to meet with you. >> steve, if they say no revenue, where do the democrats go from here? >> i think they dont go anywhere. at this point, the process has stalled. there are no talks there are no back channel productions. this are no progress in reaching a resolution and were really only eight days away. democrats cannot cave and give republicans everything they want, even though i think theyre facing some p...

Compromise and stop this my way or the highway politics. and, you know, i think the proof is in the pudding. there are republican members of congress who have publicly stated that this sequester is their leverage so that they can finally get the spending cuts that they want and to show that theyre serious about spending cuts. well, this is going to be serious, all right. >> here is another line from speaker boehners op-ed today. he says the president has put forth no detailed plan that can pass ...

Session? why did they all vote to adjourn last week when democrats said we needed to stay in washington and hammer out a compromise? weve got eight days left, ed. the clock is ticking. and at the end of that eight days youre going to have 70,000 kids kicked off headstart. youre going to have cuts to education and health care. i was just at a community meeting in my district where i had constituents who were concerned about the cutback in hours that the irs offices locally have had. >> sure. >> a...

Every bridge that says this bridge is structurally deficient. proceed at your risk, and see what political pressure developed to start fixing our bridges. the american society of civil engineers says we have a $2.2 trillion, $2.2 trillion backlog of just getting our roads and highways and bridges and water systems up to a safe, reasonable level. and this kind of cutback that were doing now, this sequester, besides being stupid because its across the board and nondiscriminating, and besides being...

Arizona. >> you said build the dang fence where. is the fence? >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. speaker boehners lies, well, they are finally catching up with him. the truth has a funny way of coming back to haunt you, doesnt it? today president obama continued to tell the public about the damage to expect if the automatic budget cuts from the sequester are not averted. here is a good reason the president is keeping the pressure on. polls show the public will blam...

Office developed a power point presentation for house republicans. it was a two-step approach, but it actually contained three steps. first of all, no tax hikes. of course thats typical. spending cuts extending the debt ceiling increase, and spending caps. but while pushing those spending caps, boehner did what? he highlighted a special trigger mechanism -- sequestration. boehner was selling this idea to his caucus as a good way to make sure that they were going to be able to get the cuts that t...

Shoulder stupid. it is stupid and everybody knows it. >> democrats, republicans, business leaders and economists, they have already said that these cuts known here in washington as sequestration are a bad idea. >> if the looming sequester strikes, 70,000 young children would be kicked off headstart. 10,000 teacher jobs will be at risk. >> let me make clear i dont like the sequester. >> i think we should in bipartisan fashion stop sequestration before in the words of the secretary of defense dest...