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Showdown vote to break the fillibuster. >> this bill is about protecting democrats from criticism ahead of the november election. a transparent attempt to rig the fall election. >> democrats say if that were true the unions might be on board. the idea that this limits free speech is bogus. the idea that this bill is unbalanced is bogus. >> one thing the president will win is more deficit funding for the afghanistan war, the house moved toward passage of $33 billion, a vote that unified republicans and divided democrats. the president will also win confirmation of elena kagan to the supreme cou...

>> paul: you're saying only policy changes not just symbolism, not just saying we are pro business, not just studies that say -- you to -- to be credible, they are gonna have to change course? >> yes. >> the thing is, the stimulus the 862 billion dollar, roughly a trillion, that was their economic policy, full-stop, no plan b, right? >> paul: i would disagree a little that was their fiscal policy. broader economic policy is everything you have seen since the financial regulation bill, cap and trade. it's politically directed credit to favored energy industries that's part of the problem. inste...

They are saying we don't like business at all these electric car manufacturers we've invested in. look at all these solar companies we've funded. >> paul: they might work they might not. >> some expert in the department of energy picks them out. >> we've seen the job creation you get out of 862 billion dollars of washington picking winners and losers, favoring certain sectors, it doesn't work like it didn't work in the 70s. they've got to understand there's a real economy where people make voluntary decisions and create things and they gotta let it happen. >> paul: big financial reform bill. 2...

And embarrassing details about the obama white house. welcome to the journal editorial report, i'm paul gigot. the white house's so-called summer of recovery rolled on this week and the latest claim it's 862 billion dollars of economic stimulus saved or created 3 million jobs and polls show that voters are far from convinced and business owners facing hundreds of new rules in the financial reform bill that passed this week aren't buying what the administration is selling either. at the u.s. chamber of commerce's job summit wednesday. chamber president tom donahue took on the obama white house ...

The new -- the new election that we -- the new regime, the new administration, so forth and so on. what we -- all we really want i think from the so-called democratic wing of the democratic party is really to stand up for what we believe in. there is a congressman in virginia who is going have a tough time getting reelected, tom periello, very conservative district. replaced a very conservative republican. i think he is going to reelected by just a hair. why, because he practices something called conviction politics. he is down explaining to everybody in his district why he voted for the healt...