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Two and a half hour discussion about it, open mic, a very, very good open discussion from all philosophies of our conference. we med again a couple hours later and reached the conclusion if we were unable to amend this bill, then it was best to pass it because of market considerations and the economy in general. but we all know that in two months we're going to have this same drama unfold again, and it won't be any different than the place we were in in august 2011 when we created this whole sequestration system to begin with, so to me it's very frustrating that at some point someone besides c...

Call to donors. we had 20 republican debates. it was absolutely nuts. and then the tone was set early. the august 2011 debate when they were assembled on stage, showed their intransigence on taxes. let's listen. >> say you had a deal. 10-1, as byron said. speaker, you're already shaking your head. but who, on this stage, would walk away from that deal? when you raise your hand if you just feel so strongly about not raising taxes, you'd walk away on the 10 to 1 deal. >> joining ne right now to review that list of greatness, former rnc chairman michael steele who never had a year like this.

Then move on to the general election. mitt romney summed up the g oor gop primary season. we had 20 republican debates. that was absolutely nuts. and nen in the august, 2011 debate, when the candidates assembled on stage showed their intransigence on the issue of raising taxes. watch him go to work here. let's listen. >> i'm going to ask a question to everyone here on the stage. say you had a deal, a real spending cuts deal. 10 to 1, as byru byron said. speaker, you're already shaking your head. but who, on this stage, would walk away from that deal? you feel so strongly about not raisining ta...

We will start with the highlights, the low lights, and then move on to the general election. mitt romney summed up the primary season in an infamous call to donors. we had 20 republican debates. it was absolutely nuts. and then the tone was set early. the august 2011 debate when they were assembled on stage, showed their intransigence on taxes. watch grover norquist's people go to work here. let's listen. >> i'm going to ask a question to everybody on the stage. say you had a deal, a real spending cuts deal. 10-1, as byron said. spending cuts to tax increases. speaker, you're already shaking y...

Scheduled to increase on january 1. if you look at how negotiations are going, it looks like it's going to happen. the typical family's taxes by $1,000 over the course of a year. >> the final one, we are talking debt ceiling. you think the fiscal cliff thing is bad for the economy. you wait and see if they can't get the debt ceiling worked out. >> right. it's one thing to go over the fiscal cliff. that would be bad. we don't want to it happen. a recession may happen. it would be unfortunate. it's different than the u.s. defaulting on the debt. you know, we saw that back in august, 2011, we saw...