Movement. polls show a steep decline in tea party support among republicans since their peak of influence in 2010. one state where far right tea partyiers can still find refuge. the lone star state of texas. on tuesday, tea partyiers won big in the state of texas in the primary runoffs. john radcliffe, unseeded congress s oldest members with 91-year-old world war ii veteran, ralph hall, lost by six percentage points. the tea party keystone victory came from state senator dan patrick who used to be a sportscaster in houston. the conservative radio talk show host beat republicans incumbent david brewer by over 30 percentage point dewhurst. he attacked him and spewed
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On the program they were going to go after that fund and try to use it for something else. it s turned out to be nothing but a slush fund and this is the republicans have got their hands all over this. and my final question to you is, senator, are there any republicans that think this is just a bastardation of the postal service? i think there are. there are republicans that appreciate the significance of these small town post offices for their people. there are republicans who understand that we have a strong postal service and getting goods and products out to people in a timely manner, it is good for the business community. so to answer your question. yes, i believe the republicans who do not want to decimate the postal service and i promise you this. i m going to do everything i can and i have a lot of allies in the senate to make sure that nothing like this happens. senator bernie sanders, good
Korea and china are basically cheating u.s. steel producers. workers, producers, plants. china is producing loads of cheap steel that s unfinished. china then sells the steel to south korea. korea, in turn, produces steel tubes that is in the oil and gas industry now. south korea then turns around and dumps these products on the united states market. see ya, job workers! overall, 78% of import growth over the past decade has come from south korea and china. this is causing major losses for middle-class families in the steel industry in this country. and we basically sit by idle and want to do another deal. in 2012, the united states steel industry had net losses of $388 million. what s shouldering that? american workers. in 2013, losses rose 1.2 billion. you can change republicans for
They are doing in the long run than it is for republicans. the middle of this country will forgive republicans on taxes faster than the middle or center left part of the country will forgive democrats for caving on social security. it s just the raw politics. republicans could be sort of luring democrats and obama into dividing their own party. yet, it is a smaller core of the republican party that s driving this debate. chuck, that would be down the road. ha about right now at the moment? the number displayed on the screen, the public doesn t like it. they say they want something done. what does that do within the republican caucus in terms of picking up votes for, you know, among tea party members? i don t know if it does anything among tea party members. a lot of these folks aren t
It s another month or two, but this is where we are going, the market would be fine with that. my question for the congressman is yes, there are a lot of details we don t know. this is similar to simpson. we know what is in this plan. do you think that do you think that you can get these house republicans to break from the pledge they have all taken? that is the question. as we heard on the floor of the house yesterday during debate, they have not moved off this point, which is you cannot have one penny coming from either closing tax loopholes or raising revenues somewhere else go for the purpose of deficit reduction. of course, that s exactly what this gang of six plan does. it raises approximately $1 trillion. it does it by reducing the rates and closing loopholes and taking down popular deductions. that does violate what the house
Worried about re-election. they are not thinking about it on that front. yesterday, when you saw, it was a rush of rankin senators on either side. the republicans who haven t been on the deal process said positive things about gang of six. they have been saying how frustrated they are with the tea party and how frustrated they are with house republicans. this is a case where the senate republicans finally got it s almost like they were sweating outside and they finally got their air-conditioning. they just went in and said ah, yes, i m for this. enough. that s where you are seeing a way to send a message to the house republicans. guys, guys, let s do this big deal. this is what we want to do. this is what if you look at the polling, it s what the public wanlts them to do. let s look at president obama s approval rating.
The argument for raising the debt ceiling are winning the argument. you can look at the way it moved from april on the screen there to now. so, that, to me, right at the beginning told you who was winning the messaging war. it s dramatic. 58% of the people agree with the president s deficit reduction plan even though we don t know the specifics. only 36% agree with the republican plan. so once again, chuck, the president wins this debate. that ee s right. it was the bully pulpit. in many ways, messaging on this debate in the last three weeks, the president beat republicans in congress in a debate on public opinion. if you look at the history of this presidency, that s the first time this ever happened. usually, in the policy fights with congress, which drag him down into the muck and swamp of washington, he ends up on the losing end of this in public
Saying raise it. before you explain it. why is this question important? it s the first time where just asking the straight question where raise it means don t raise it. that tells you this education campaign, whatever you want to call it, the attention brought to it, that the people making the argument for raising the debt ceiling are winning the argument. you can look at the way it moved from april on the screen there to now. so, that, to me, right at the beginning told you who was winning the messaging war. it s dramatic. 58% of the people agree with the president s deficit reduction plan even though we don t know the specifics. only 36% agree with the republican plan. so once again, chuck, the president wins this debate. that ee s right. it was the bully pulpit. in many ways, messaging on this debate in the last three weeks, the president beat republicans in congress in a debate on
Public opinion. if you look at the history of this presidency, that s the first time this ever happened. usually, in the policy fights with congress, which drag him down into the muck and swamp of washington, he ends up on the losing end of this in public opinion. not in this case. it s not even close. he s got everybody with him on this in some form of another except the tea party. even when you explain debt ceiling, the more you explain it, the more positive the numbers get, the only group that is strongly against raising the debt ceiling even after explanation is tea party. it s that way across the board in our poll. chuck, 62% say republicans should compromise and raise taxes. that s an interesting amount, in my opinion. it is. again, it s democrats obviously say this. independents say this. only the tea party even