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Are at least enunciated in the plan there. i think certainly more conservative members in the house and the senate have spoken favorably of it. so it gives you something, at least as a framework, to begin the conversation. and i was surprised in the campaign that neither the president nor mitt romney actually took that as sort of a bull whip to kind of shape the argument. >> talking like that, thats why youre referred to as former republican national chairman. >> funny. >> theres an interesting,...

Is this issue. the president is there with a 5 percent rating and the republicans have a rating and they do not talk about it. >>gregg: we speak of the reasonable man in the law, mcconnell tried to show himself as a reasonable man saying hit the rich on higher taxes, hit the rich on higher premiums for medicare, that sounds reasonable, doesnt it? >> he talked about changing the retirement age for social security and eligibility stuff for medicare, and what he did, what what the republicans do al...

That very seriously. >> bill: all right. on tax and funding, are we going to work this out here and whats the time line? >> well, they are not meeting this week which is interesting, so there doesnt seem to be as much a sense of sur urgency as the markets indicate. depends on both sides and what they view as a lesson of the election. the republicans maintain their majority in the house. the president won a victory. i think there is every responsibility that we could kick the can down the road fo...

Urgency as the market indicates. i think it depends on both sides and what they view is the lesson of the election. republicans maintain their majority in the house. the preside theres a possibili could kick the can down the road for 6 months or so by putting everything on hold. if you are really going to solve this problem if you are really going to address it you have to go after entitlements. everybody knows thats the third rail. that part has to be bipartisan the way it was with tip oneil an...

That very seriously. >> bill: all right. on tax and funding, are we going to work this out here and whats the time line? >> well, they are not meeting this week which is interesting, so there doesnt seem to be as much a sense of sur urgency as the markets indicate. depends on both sides and what they view as a lesson of the election. the republicans maintain their majority in the house. the president won a victory. i think there is every responsibility that we could kick the can down the road fo...

The last thing im going to do is judge someone whos managing a crisis. >> very good. >> in real time. >> that is the correct answer. >> i agree with you. i think the response to mitt romney, whatever his mistakes. >> yeah. >> the response to mitt romney just piling on is not unseemly but unhelpful to the republican party. they have to do serious thinking about why they did not connect with the growing, changing nature of this country. so your two cents, what does the republican party need to do ...

Line. we will have to wait and see. megyn: visiting the president yesterday and reportedly said after that, the fact, we dont social security tax, we dont want medicaid tax. before i let you go, mitt romney took a lot of criticism during the debate. he tried with candy crowley, he then avoided it like the third rail. the white house press corps is not as likely to back up of that issue today. it will be interesting to see the president go one-on-one with these reporters on an issue that he has h...

>> well, thats one of the things we talk about. when we rally people and talk to them, they say, do you have -- we have strong unions in ohio and he has basically on record for the whole country wants national right to work. he wants to get rid of the minimum wage. he wants to get rid of davis bacon, any time of idea of regulating and having proper wages to protect people. >> no candidate has gone down that road to, my knowledge. >> no. but hes on the website, they are all gone now because of th...

We have strong unions in ohio. and he is basically on record for the whole country wants the national right to work. he wants to get rid of the minimum wage. he wants to get rid of any type of idea of working wages is to protect people. >> and no candidate has gone down that road to my knowledge. no, hes on the website. theyre all gone now because of the tea party. now theyre talking about the national right to work. that gets people up in arms. and mitt romney doesnt see the difference. he goes...

Run along the third rail which is supposed to electrocute them. does nothing to them. >> everywhere in the subway. what did the story say? did they survive this? >> some didnt. majority did. >> good thing maybe some of the babies washed out. took out a younger generation. >> i dont know, i dont know. >> some of the ones that were nesting got drowned. theyll make it no matter what. i assume this weekend most people have a chance to relax, cope with what is happening. may want to look for a new ...