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Should be able to win and probably will win. beyond that i don't really know. i don't know about the extension of unemployment benefits. the guy i was talking to up here, you know, outside on the dartmouth green. he's been unemployed for a year and a half. he's had unemployment benefits for most of that time. they are running out now. i don't know whether they can be extended again. that's actually going to be a big fight if that happens, and i think republicans are going to take the risk of saying they are not going to support it without compensatory budget cuts elsewhere. they tried that bef...

You both right now, is this big enough? is this big enough, this difference between democrats and republicans, for the president to be able to say with $175 billion infrastructure bill, is he able to say, this is a turnaround proposal? this is the difference between economic hell and economic heaven? this is the good guys' position, the other guys are the bad guys? >> no, i don't think the numbers are big enough, chris, for that kind of thing. he had his one shot at that in the original stimulus bill, when he had more political clout. some would argue that he didn't go big enough, but be that ...

Dartmouth green. he's been unemployed for a year and a half. he's had unemployment benefits for most of that time. they are running out now. i don't know whether they can be extended again. that's actually going to be a big fight if that happens, and i think republicans are going to take the risk of saying they are not going to support it without compensatory budget cuts elsewhere. they tried that before and failed. i bet they try it again. and in terms of the president's big infrastructure program, $175 billion for jobs. >> yeah. >> for infrastructure jobs, you know, i bet you that that -- i ...

New as well. >> yeah. apple calls it i message. it will allow anyone with an iphone, ipad to send unlimited texts to anyone else with any of these three devices so long as they have internet access. it's similar to the blackberry messenger. if you have black berry, you can text someone else, so it is essentially free texting, shep. >> shep: so what are the chances, rich, that texting actually becomes just as free as e-mail? >> we're starting to get there. but you still need a smart phone to use the free texting. in many cases, you can only message between the same types of phones. you can't i ...

ridiculist tonight. breaking news everyone. tonight right now in that building over on the senate side according to democrat harry reid who spoke last hour, nothing is going on. the senate is now adjourned. but the clock is still ticking and the government is running out of money to pay the bills at this moment because the debt limit was not raised back in may, the united states treasury has less cash on hand than apple computer. on wednesday the government will have $23 billion in social security checks to send out and not enough cash to cover them unless it doesn't send out a who...