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Grover norquist, of course, the tax guy, said republicans should drag out tax negotiation as long as needed, he put it, whatever that means. but lets listen to grover here. >> they can give him debt ceiling increases once a month. they can have him on a rather short leash on a small -- you know, heres your allowance, come back next month if you behaved. >> wait. youre proposing the debt ceiling be increased month by month? >> monthly feels good. weekly is not. >> the last time that congress foug...

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African-americans, latinos and women generally you think a picture like this, look at it, would be something republicans would want to try to avoid. yet these are the faces of the house committee chairman, men, selected by the republican party. i guess theres a little diversity there. white man with brown hair, white man with blond hair, old white guy, young white guy. do the republican party people in charge of the house, for example, did they learn anything from the 2012 election results? not ...

Appealed to dirkson saying if you come with me on the civil rights bill, you will be remembered for 200 years. only you and lincoln will be remembered. on the other hand, he gave dirkson every public works project dam that was going to sink illinois. lincoln did the same thing, what ever he was needed, assignments, jobs, the years before civil service. it was easier to do some of this then. >> the guy that stole the movie as far as im concerned was the same guy that stole that oliver stone movie...

Lot of -- >> economically they have less. ill use a more politically correct term. no offense meant, obviously. >> its a more accurate term, you know, when we talk about people who make less than $50,000, a lot of those -- those are middle class people, too. some are working poor -- >> thats not where the voter turnout came, if you know your voter stats. its people making less than that, pulled out of the apartments, groups. its not the middle class, its the lower middle class who not traditiona...

To the underclass. thats a dated word. thats not who were talking about here. you know, were talking about a lot of -- >> economically they have less. ill use a more politically correct term. no offense meant, obviously. >> its a more accurate term, you know, when we talk about people who make less than $50,000, a lot of those -- those are middle class people, too. some are working poor -- >> thats not where the voter turnout came, if you know your voter stats. its people making less than that, ...

Amendment by appealing to his sense of history and the war has to mean something just like lbj appealed to dirkson saying if you come with me on the civil rights bill, you will be remembered for 200 years. only you and lincoln will be remembered. on the other hand, he gave dirkson every public works project dam that was going to sink illinois. lincoln did the same thing, what ever he was needed, assignments, jobs, the years before civil service. it was easier to do some of this then. >> the guy ...

As needed, he put it, whatever that means. but lets listen to grover here. >> they can give him debt ceiling increases once a month. they can have him on a rather short leash on a small -- you know, heres your allowance, come back next month if you behaved. >> wait. youre proposing the debt ceiling be increased month by month? >> monthly feels good. weekly is not. >> the last time that congress fought with the president over the debt ceiling it caused our bond rating to drop. why would this guy ...

Know, heres your allowance, come back next month if you behaved. >> wait. youre proposing the debt ceiling be increased month by month? >> monthly feels good. weekly is not. >> the last time that congress fought with the president over the debt ceiling it caused our bond rating to drop. why would this guy want to tap in on a monthly basis where were jeopardizing our credit standing in the world every month? what sense that? >> you know, i think what caused our bond rating to drop is the fact wer...

The lower middle class who not traditionally even participated. >> thats right. necessity didnt used to participate. they participate more now. thats a wonderful thing for our country. they deserve to participate. >> its not $50,000 class. thats my point. >> thanks, tom. >> hes a good guy. >> okay. >> susan, i mean -- hes a good guy, joan. anyway, thank you, joan walsh. im trying to help him out here. he came on the show. he was nice enough to do that. youll always be here. its a home game for y...