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We verse that? we are looking at deficits of one trillion a year depending on the year sometimes higher, slightly lower, 2014 looking to bottom out for the next decade. you have to cut the spending. your segment beforehand talking about the disapproval rating of congress, very low anybody on either side of the aisle do they have the stomach to touch the third rail, social security or medicare? not likely. >> greta: it is disheartening, 14 months ago the stimulus bill was passed. many people oppo...

We verse that? we are looking at deficits of one trillion a year depending on the year sometimes higher, slightly lower, 2014 looking to bottom out for the next decade. you have to cut the spending. your segment beforehand talking about the disapproval rating of congress, very low anybody on either side of the aisle do they have the stomach to touch the third rail, social security or medicare? not likely. >> greta: it is disheartening, 14 months ago the stimulus bill was passed. many people oppo...

>> national security, dan guantanamo closing. lindsey graham has been talking to the white house chief of staff rahm emanuel about a deal in which he would help them get the money to close, graham would, if the administration would let khalid sheikh mohammed and other terrorists tried in military commissions. is that going anywhere? >> i dont think it is going anywhere much paul. guantanamo like some of these other issues we used to talk social security as the third rail? all these issues now ar...

This because if you look at it simply in terms of the u.s.-israeli relationship, thats not the whole story. theres a big domestic component, and prime minister netanyahu is in a coalition, and hes in a coalition with a number of very conservative people who believe that, as he has said, that israel has the right to its capital, jerusalem whole ask uand unique. its the third rail of politics and if it goes against that its very bad for him and it could weaken his position and his coalition can fa...

Wrote on a card, you wore a flag pin, you said the right things. you didnt step in any of the ditches that they laid out for you, didnt touch a third rail, and thats why youre in congress, but youre an idiot. and when i see this creep give every possible excuse that he could, when he was first defending himself, i thought, wow, he goes right down the list. first, he blames it on health. then he mentions his family. then its the climate in washington. i thought, okay, are we going to get to "pers...

Jobless recovery and revenue dry up on the federal and city and state level. they dry up faster than anybody planned for. soon you dont have the money. you ask for central assistance and everyone is asking for it at the same time. look at what greece is facing. tax hike and austerity measures at the same time. thats probably what we are looking gnat this country. >> neil: union, state workers and pension, thats third rail in a lot of states. for democrats, a third rail politically period. >> rig...

I know. you know, because you talk to them all the time. most people dont talk to their congressmen. i talk to people who come on this show, and there are some people who are very bright, but there are some people you go, wow, theres just nothing going on above the neck, is there? you won this office because you spouted some platitudes somebody wrote on a car, you wore a flag pin, you said the right thing, you didnt step in any of the ditches that they laid out for you, didnt touch a third rail,...

You won this office because you spouted some platitudes somebody wrote on a car, you wore a flag pin, you said the right thing, you didnt step in any of the ditches that they laid out for you, didnt touch a third rail, and thats why youre in congress, but youre an idiot. and when i see this creep give every possible excuse that he could, when he was first defending himself, i thought, wow, he goes right down the list. first, he blames it on health. then he mentions his family. then its the clima...

Where this gets done. that is the problem. what really strikes me, again, nine months into my political commentary career at msnbc after 15 years at cnbc, how unwilling politicians seem to be to deal in reality. what, if anything, will make them fearful enough for their jobs they actually do their jobs as opposed to protect their jobs lying to americans and take money from special interests. >> right. that is what im trying to figure out, dylan. i put this plan out two years ago. i put a fresh v...

Away. it is called the third rail for a reason. >> right. >> if somebody signs on your to your legitimate proposals for balancing the budget at some point in the future they will lose elections because the voters do want something for nothing, dont they? you say they dont. >> no. >> you say they dont want something for nothing. i think they do. >> we have had this problem. if it was not what you said we would have fixed it already. what i propose and if we act soon, if you are 55 or over you are...