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>> -- slowing reducing austerity spending that they would prefer. >> yeah. this is something that i think you put your finger on what is the problem. right, which is that they have normalized obstruction so much it's no longer a story. i, myself, i'm guilty of this. i was just having a conversation today about how much we cover congress or don't cover congress. what ends up happening is you don't cover bills that are in congress or initiatives in congress. you think, that will never get passed. you don't cover a presidential initiatives because you know it won't pass congress. right, the ameri...

Back. >> i think it's right that it's difficult to walk it back, but i guess you end up sort of saying, well, a lot of tax cuts, a lot of this. the thing that worries me about this in the sort of broad way you were putting it in terms of who gets rewarded and punished, what we're learning increasingly is that we have this kind of breakdown of accountability in the american political system where you can have a minority that using obstruction and later on divided government that essentially drives outcomes or at least drives non-outcomes through gridlock. and then instead of getting judged for ...

In office it was below 60 percent gdp on the course by the end of the decade it could be 90 percent of the gdp. >> he call would on congress to pass additional stimulus items and more subsidies and wind power. >> i am calling on congress to extend tax credits that are set to expire for clean energy companies like tpi . >> mr. obama want to increase federal spending boy an average of four and half percent a year. his budget was defeated in the senate and would have driven debts higher. >> increase that debt from 15-20 trillion. and go up another 25 percent. in the recent meetings with the europ...

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Of this. the thing that worries me about this in the sort of broad way you were putting it in terms of who gets rewarded and punished, what we're learning increasingly is that we have this kind of breakdown of accountability in the american political system where you can have a minority that using objection and later on divided government that essentially drives outcomes or at least drives nonoutcomes through gridlock then instead of getting judged for the consequences the majority gets judged for consequences that aren't of their making. i mean, republicans and democrats agree that barack oba...