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I think he's helped very much by the fact you have what might be really a weak gop feel and you have a problem the next set of candidates but people, you know, kind of think he has this in the bag. incup be incumbents usually win but people are concerned about the economy and the wrong track number at 75% where it is right now. >> nate, i'm curious. if this is seen in the context of the overall economic problems in this country, how much does the idea that you get the blinking light every time you pull up at the gas station, how much is that affect like the austerity talk? i wonder at a time w...

By the round of primaries that happened in 2010. so you can donate th't do this . this is a long-standing thing that's built up that has ceded more and more power to the ultraconservative, ultrareactionary right wing of the party. that's something you can take place on the liberal side, but it takes time. it's not an instant thing. you can't show up tomorrow and say, now we're going to break you, because that threat has to be credible. >> what do you think is going to happen on wednesday night when the president gives this speech on the economy? they were priming the pump this weekend, trying ...

And that would allow the president to say, listen, it's these crazy liberals over here. i just can't go anywhere on medicare. >> yeah. i think that is where the force sort of has to come. and it has to come, if liberals do care about this, making that demand felt and member, this doesn't all happen in the negotiations in the two weeks. there is precedent here in the dreaded primary that every republican member of the house and the senate is terrified of. a tea party primary. so they have already been kind of kept in check prospectively by the round of primaries that happened in 2010. so you ca...

Physical and human resources lying fallow, rotting away, wasting in this country with almost 9% unemployment, with houses in foreclosure. all of this just sitting there, idle. not doing anything. not living up to its productive capacity. and we're not having a discussion about how we get that moving again. we're having a discussion about how we cut. and frankly, it's madness. it's not an instant thing. you can't show up tomorrow and say, now we're going to break you, because that threat has to be credible. >> what do you think is going to happen on wednesday night when the president gives this...

Ultrareactionary right wing of the party. that's something you can take place on the liberal side, but it takes time. it's not an instant thing. you can't show up tomorrow and say, now we're going to break you, because that threat has to be credible. >> what do you think is going to happen on wednesday night when the president gives this speech on the economy? they were priming the pump this weekend, trying to get people used to the idea that he's going to talk about medicare and medicaid, and when people do that in cases like this, they're not usually just talking about defending it from the ...