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It's very clear in the 113th it's up to boehner to not even introduce anything that would avert the job losses that are going to be taking place after friday. i guarantee you, boehner's got a tee time 9:00 a.m. friday morning. some of you people in media in washington why don't you go ask him what he's doing on friday? you're going to tell me a guy a tan like that that loves to shake down donors at a golf course isn't going to be on the links this weekend? he is not working for you. he is rip you off. you should the be calling your congressman tonight, telling them to get to work, to do a deal...

This is why the president took his message to a virginia facility where submarines are built. now, at this particular shipyard, projects like an overhaul to the uss theodore roosevelt is going to be delayed. how is that going to help the military? president obama wants to avoid this, and so do most americans, if you believe the polls. the latest polling from nbc news, "the wall street journal" shows nearly half of americans believe president obama is trying to unify the country. only 22% believe the same thing about the republicans. so john boehner can use all the swear words he wants. he can ...

Across the country. number one, they're going on vacation for a couple weeks when we've got this thing looming on march 1st, the sequester. what evidence do we have out there that shows the 113th is going to be any different from the 112th, that they're not going to be a record number of filibusters when they're doing this to chuck hagel today? i mean, i think this is the tea leaves, isn't it? >> actually, we don't have any evidence. what always amaze me, when they say that congress has a disapproval of 89 and an approval of 9, i always wonder who is the 9? i never met any of them. but look, t...

Know this better than i, one of the most important things for people to understand about the way the senate works and the filibuster works is that one way to look at a congress, a senate, 113th, is as a finite amount of legislating hours. let's say 5,000 hours of legislating, right? now, every hour you can burn, if you're in the minority, that's to win, right? it's a finite budget, right? when you can spend down that time with dilatory tactics such as this and the filibuster eats up a lot of time, what you are doing is rinking the amount of time the majority can get things done and waiting unt...

>> a little bit. i think in the end it will get through. but i think this a way, chuck hagel has kind of become the pinata for republicans, because he is within reach. president obama is not. president obama is on the right side politically on most of these political issues. the republicans can't touch him, and they know it. the only person they can whack right now is chuck hagel. i mean, chuck hagel is a perfectly acceptable defense secretary. and privately, most republicans would say the same thing. but for a whole host of reasons, the only person that the republican right can go after right...