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>> thats a variation on it. >> im completely opposed to the obamacare mandate for the individual mandate because its fundamentally wrong, and i believe unconstitutional. >> what would you do about libya in. >> exercise a no-fly zone this evening. the idea that were confused about a man who has been an anti-american dictator since 1969, just tells you how inept this administration is. very quick to jump on mubarak who was their ally for 30 years, and they are confused about getting rid of gadhafi...

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17 times. today he delivered a variation of that speech to the university of richmond in virginia, conveniently located in the congressional district represented by house majority leader eric cantor. the president told cantors constituents he remains hopeful that cantor and house republicans there, in fact, pass his jobs bill. >> to his credit, i was glad to hear some republicans, including your congressman say they see room for us to work together. they said that they are open to some of the pr...

Remained fairly low. that is what we have seen over the last week. >> as far as the other two rating agencies, do you think they will also go ahead and down grade, or is it possible they will not do that? >> it seems unlikely at this point. there are a couple things going on here. there isnt really an issue about u.s. governments being able to generate the revenue to make the debt payment. it is fairly clear we can do that. what this reflects, the down grade from s&p is they are concerned about ...

Theres going to be a capitol hill two-step if you will, congressional two-step. what does that mean? look, a lot of folks find the gang of six talks interesting. a lot think theres a lot to work with there. however, in the time left, by august 2nd its not enough to do everything that is in the gang of six plan. essentially theres got to be mitty markups, theres massive tax reform, entitlement reform, all types of things that take legislative time. what youre probably going to say is possibly whi...

Plan for a variation of it and target that to essentially slap that down as the senate slapped only a couple of hours after the house voted the boehner plan down. a little bit of legislative tot for tat. and when it goes through the gobbledygook of getting legislation of its on through. and the reid plan, not only would be dead on arrival in the house as it presently stands, it might not even pass within the senate, something that happened close to midnight or thereafter. so that debate continue...

Of six plan. essentially theres got to be mitty markups, theres massive tax reform, entitlement reform, all types of things that take legislative time. what youre probably going to say is possibly white house meetings and some sort of combination of, all right, were going to do a variation of this mcdonnell-reid plan thats been in the senate that will extend the debt ceiling up to $1.5 trillion in cuts and extend it $2 trillion dollars. however, it would be tied to any additional extension perha...

Six, but also what short-term deal could get 218 votes. right now a guy named joe walsh is circulating a letter that would reject any variation of the mitch mcconnell plan, the job of allowing the president to raise the debt ceiling, but the republicans allowing him to do that. right now that letter has 80 votes. thats 80 republicans on the record saying they oppose any type of deal right now. thats interesting, because if that is still the case, the thought here in washington, d.c. is you could...

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