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The president woodward's column was a game changer this week. the president now owns sequestration. it is fact. republicans should withstand the heat in the coming days and coming weeks and then after it happens need to get out of this town and go on offense and explain that they had two options. accept more tax increases which is bad are for the country and they are not going to do that or allowed spending cuts. they weren't done the way they proposed them but it was abouter than raising tax increases. let me make the point with all of the governors here in town today the republicans have a g...

In, we started seeing month to month, every month sense late 2010, our sales go up. it is consumers having more can have dense, having more money. obama care was huge. i provide health insurance for all my employees. the aca is underwriting small businesses doing that helped me absorb a huge increase because i have a couple of folks who work for me who are going through some illness problems. >> lee saunders, your members of afscme, will be financially hurt if we go over the fiscal cliff. can you absorb this for a while? how important is it to get it done now? >> it is extremely important. we ...

You have to be persuasive in your arguments about the merits of the policy. and so what americans have seen here is that we still have a stagnant economy. we have unemployment through the roof. that hasn't moved at all. we have $6 trillion more in debt. so the i think there is still enough leverage on the republican side to say we are going to stick to our principles. the last thing they want is for president obama to play lucy with the football where the charlie brown makes promises and doesn't fulfill the promises. >> i will give you we don't end up in some fundamentally different economic c...

>> that's happening on wednesday. on tuesday the day before he's meeting with labor leaders, he's meeting with afscme, afl-cio and other bigger supporters. and that's before he gets to the business leaders. as far as the business leaders are concerned, it's all really big business, general electric,del, wal-mart, not the small businesses. the republicans say the small businesses will be hurt if taxes on the highest bracket goes up. >> this is a two-day lobbying effort by the white house and by obama to put pressure on -- put pressure on members of congress to pass his tax and deficit spending ...

>> that's happening on wednesday. on tuesday the day before he's meeting with labor leaders, he's meeting with afscme, afl-cio and other bigger supporters. and that's before he gets to the business leaders. as far as the business leaders are concerned, it's all really big business, general electric,del, wal-mart, not the small businesses. the republicans say the small businesses will be hurt if taxes on the highest bracket goes up. >> this is a two-day lobbying effort by the white house and by obama to put pressure on -- put pressure on members of congress to pass his tax and deficit spending ...