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Across-the-board way, it will result in lost jobs, which is why we proposed this alternative. now over the longer term, theres no doubt we have to reduce our deficit, but we have to do it in a smart and balanced way as the president has said, and thats why we have proposed a combination of cuts and weve already done $1.5 trillion in cuts as part of the budget control act and other action. we did some revenue as part of the most recent agreement on the fiscal cliff, but we need to continue to do ...

Senate democrats that they need to do their job to avoid the sequester in itself. whats your take on how this is going to all crack out? is it going to go down to the wire? >> well, thomas, first of all, the across the board sequester cuts will hurt the economy. republicans have acknowledged that. and this is a very timely discussion were having right now, because just over the last two days -- and i just came off the floor of the house, the house democrats proposed a substitute, an alternative ...

Going to happen. >> failure to the communicate. >> just tweaking and rebranding. >> the idea that more and more able-bodied people are becoming dependent upon the government. >> they do not make us a nation of takers. they free us. >> listen, i think we learned a lot of lessons from the last election. >> were losing! ♪ >> we begin this afternoon with the clash of two statements, one delivered by a man whos enjoying some of the high he is approval ratings of his career. the other delivered by a...

Now, joy, its not surprising to me the president is trying to go on record and say im against the sequester, but it sounds like that bad boy is going through. >> i have this conspiracy theory. they want the sequester. im telling you, i really do believe that certain members, particularly the republican party, want the sequester because its budget cuts with no fingerprints. people will forget they voted for it in the first place, and they get their cuts. >> you are saying theres no other time tha...

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A lot of folks have seen just -- you mentioned that theres this fear that leads to more ush urban violence. ly going bah to what a republican told me a few weeks ago. there is a lot of fear among rank-and-file republicans on moving forward on anything related to guns because theyre very weary of the pillars of what they believe are being taken out. a lot of them voted for a tax increase at the end of 2012. a lot of them are not moving to protect defense cuts right now that are tied to this seque...

Kraft foods and walmart and farmers as well as the poor. they really want to cut these programs for the poor. its their ideological want to do that. number one, they werent foresighted enough to get that into the sequester. they exempted things like medicare and medicaid and social security and now they are dying for the president to propose draconian cuts so they dont have to have their fingerprints on it like they want these draconian cuts to go through without people like eric cantor in incre...

Getting yachts and planes and all those goodies. but kids will have meals. >> yes, indeed. >> and seniors will have warm houses to live in. >> joy, i seem to recall that this issue of closing loopholes and reducing deductions was suggested by some republicans not so long ago. take a listen. >> we propose to close those special interest loopholes. lets ged rid of special interest loopholes. plug loopholes, lower everybodys tax rates. get rid of special interest loopholes. plug these loopholes. >>...

For any american people who are watching that. theres already enough of a view that the senate -- and the house even more so, are kind of these dysfunctional partisan bodies with all this bickering. and thats kind of what you saw yesterday. probably for most people, that was the most chuck hagel they have seen in a long time and i cant imagine they were very impressed by it. look, on the budgetary side, i actually think chuck hagel can really help in bringing down the defense budget, but doing s...

To read whats going on. if you dont fight the public sector, you cant handle those of us that have a disproportionate amount in there. when you deal with the politics that were looking at coming, the sequester, listen to what paul ryan said on "meet the press". >> i think the sequester is going to happen because that $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, we cant lose those spending cults. we think these sequesters will happen because the democrats have opposed our efforts to replace those with others....