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They engineer these facilities. they saw what happened when the israelis took out the syrian and iraqi facility and know the capability of our weapons so they dug these installations far enough into the ground so they could survive the existing supply of bunker busters. 2006 we had an election, elected a democrat congress. in 2007, the bush administration went to congress and asked for a modest several hundred million in additional moneys to upgrade our conventional weapons stock. the idea was make the bunker busters tougher so you have some -- you injected t eedsom s instability in the situat...

They engineer these facilities. they saw what happened when the israelis took out the syrian and iraqi facility and know the capability of our weapons so they dug these installations far enough into the ground so they could survive the existing supply of bunker busters. 2006 we had an election, elected a democrat congress. in 2007, the bush administration went to congress and asked for a modest several hundred million in additional moneys to upgrade our conventional weapons stock. the idea was make the bunker busters tougher so you have some -- you injected t eedsom s instability in the situat...

Opposition, it's more likely in the case of hagel than lew, but we'll see how that plays out. i don't pick up yet in either case on the threat of what could kill either of these nominations that would be a filibuster there is a sense in hagel, even if he had all the republicans, all 45 of them say they are against him, there will be still be up or down. so maybe 55-45, maybe one democrat will peel off. the longer term threat here is this. what we've already experienced in the last four years is that the republicans in some very sort of troubling ways have changed the behavior enormous for cong...

I think in terms of the republicans unifying in opposition, it's more likely in the case of hagel than lew, but we'll see how that plays out. i don't pick up yet in either case on the threat of what could kill either of these nominations that would be a filibuster there is a sense in hagel, even if he had all the republicans, all 45 of them say they are against him, there will be still be up or down. so maybe 55-45, maybe one democrat will peel off. the longer term threat here is this. what we've already experienced in the last four years is that the republicans in some very sort of troubling ...

That would be a filibuster there is a sense in hagel, even if he had all the republicans, all 45 of them say they are against him, there will be still be up or down. so maybe 55-45, maybe one democrat will peel off. the longer term threat here is this. what we've already experienced in the last four years is that the republicans in some very sort of troubling ways have changed the behavior enormous for congressional parties. you look at how they have treated the debt ceiling. they tried to claim that as a legitimate bargaining tool. you look what the senate republicans have down with the filib...