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Wondering if you think there's a possibility it may manifest itself as something positive. you hear former lawmaker, like allan simpson, not surprisingly, speak out. but to some degree, as with senator bayh's complaints this week with on his way out the door, do they not both have a responsibility, if the partisanship is so poisonous in their assessments, do they have some responsibility to do more than lament it? do they have to propose steps to fix it and point out who, individually, name names, is standing in the way of fixing it? >> the easiest thing to do in washington is to blame partisa...

Go back and look at what happened with thomas jefferson and john adams. they actually arrested political opponents back in those days. i mean, the thing is that we have real, honest to goodness philosophical and political and policy differences in this country. and there's nothing wrong with having dragdown fights over this. but what is wrong is when it's only about partisan politics. when there is no concern about facts and about policy making. and i think, perhaps, simpson maybe a throwback to the days where the policy differences drove the debate, not just simply scoring political points. a...

>> thank you, keith. the purportedly deficit-hating republicans in congress, never mind their last president saddled the current administration with a deficit of $1.3 trillion, hostile to president obama's plan to create a bipartisan commission, the sole purpose of which would be finding ways to cut the deficit. the president still doing it, without them, scheduled to create the commission by executive order tomorrow and to tap as its co-chairman former clinton chief of staff,erskin bowles, a moderate democratic businessman from north carolina who made an unsuccessful run for the senate. and...

kerry, and whitehouse. more joining? it is possible that it's still passable? palin to tea party. drop dead. the tea party movement is not a party and we have a two-party system so the smart thing will be independents who are such a part of this tea party movement to, i guess, sort of start picking a party. in other words, don't you dare run your own candidates. california's recalled governor, gray davis. miss me yet? >> be nice to me. you're talking to the future governor. that guy? worsts, tiger speaks, but no questions. and limbaugh calls the president of the united states -...

gillibrand, and merkley. today, say so senators franken, kerry, and whitehouse. more joining? it is possible that it's still passable? palin to tea party. drop dead. the tea party movement is not a party and we have a two-party system so the smart thing will be independents who are such a part of this tea party movement to, i guess, sort of start picking a party. in other words, don't you dare run your own candidates. california's recalled governor, gray davis. miss me yet? >> be nice to me. you're talking to the future governor. that guy? worsts, tiger speaks, but no questions...