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Entitlements because neither party really wants to get to grips with reining it in. thats a vote loser. thats the third rail of american politics and nobody wants to touch it. >> its a record that is not a good one that weve collected that much money. >> i dont think so. >> for the aforementioned reasons. stu, thank you. more blowback over the keystone pipeline. well talk to one midwest governor strongly urging the president, make this thing happen, even though it doesnt go through his own sta...

Working. >> right. part of the reason it was a laughingstock or a punching bag if you will was because the obamacare rollout was just so horrific in that first month. but, jonathan, how about obamacare overall? do you see it becoming part of the fabric of this country, kind of like the third rail of politics, like social security, and if that were to happen, how long would that take? >> that would take a few years. the actual numbers now, if you add those who have been included through medicaid ...

Evangelical message on immigration. thats the evangelical pro-message. which this is about keeping families intact. this is about if you look at immigration in that come passionate light, i think for a conservative audience, if youre governor bush, thats the best shot you have of selling immigration, trying to neutralize it a little bit as a political hot potato. but, we saw what happened in 07. we saw what happened, what mitt romney did to rick perry. it is -- of all the primary issues of the v...

Problems. >> gary b., how many of this is waste by the government? they spent $5 million on this get groove video to help us get healthy. >> you look across the board, there is fraud in medicare, there is fraud in social security. we talked a number of times in the fraud in food stamps, you add that up across the board, there is trillions of dollars in waste there that we can lop. but i think you hit on an important point. we paid it on the panel a few minutes ago. unless the congress is willing...

Down a one-way street. abu-jamal was shot once in the chest. in the 1990s, including on college campuses, touching the third rail of race and policing. when a second scheduled execution date approached in january 1999, the beastie boys and rage against the machine even headlined a free benefit concert in new jersey with rages front man recording a song to benefit the mumia defense fund.ç to conservatives, however, mumia abu-jamal became the boogie man, the anti-american, anti-police radical on...

Clinton would make that comparison but what are you getting? what kind of reaction? >> reporter: right now, im trying to get some reaction from her camp. specifically, there is none. they are not commenting. if you invoke nazi germany and adolf hitler, it is like the third rail of rhetoric. it gets so much attention. whatever hillary clintons opinions are, about putin, this sort of increases the volume, if you will. we heard her last week, in florida, not on camera but talking about putin. this ...

By an scestry, hitler kept sayi, i have to go and protect my people. another person who was an editor of a small group of newspapers who happened to be at this event said she was very quickly to say, followed that up by saying that there is obviously an attempt by the obama administration for a peaceful resolution. she tried to clean up her remarks at the end. you invoke hitler and nazi germany, you know, john, it is sort of the third rail of rhetoric. you are going to get a ton of intention for...

"tampa bay times." adam, when you look at what the cuban vote did in 2012, you look at a democratic candidate for a statewide office in florida felt comfortable doing this. is it fair to say that cuba is no longer the third rail of florida politics? >> yeah, i do think its definitely no longer the third rail of politics. you know, in a vast majority of the state, really nobody cares about this issue, but in miami-dade, such a population center, its a driving issue. so i do think in a way the saf...

Fiscal cliffs. talk about real terms, people can relate to it, we have the courage to act on it. thats why republican governors are acting all around the country right now. we can get the senate back. >> if item number one, that i think would unite, remember brave heart, unite us, unite us. william wallace, do you think -- republicans said, were going to stop robbing from our kids and cut one penny out of every dollar and make sure we balance our budget, isnt that something we should unite behin...

Talk about real terms, people can relate to it, we have the courage to act on it. thats why republican governors are acting all around the country right now. we can get the senate back. >> if item number one, that i think would unite, remember brave heart, unite us, unite us. william wallace, do you think -- republicans said, were going to stop robbing from our kids and cut one penny out of every dollar and make sure we balance our budget, isnt that something we should unite behind? >> theres no...