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Most of us, if you're jewish, you get passover off, if you're christian, you get good friday off. the congress is taking two weeks off. president's day, you took a week off. if i'm not mistaken, this is now five vacations since january that the senate and the congress have taken. >> it's a good question. >> bob asks great question. >> i totally agree with bob sheiffer. five weeks since january. >> i can say now that i'm not a sitting member of congress, i'm offended. outraged! get back to work like the rest of us. >> can you believe you got paid to do that? >> i can't believe i got elected. >>...

The 2012 budget and the real battle is get to the 2012 budget and how to solve a long term deficit. >> they think it's a real fight, at least the republicans do. listen to paul ryan. he said he will not rubber stamp a debt increase. >> nobody wants to play around with the country's credit rating, nobody wants to see default happening. we also think it's important to get a handle on future borrowing as we deal with raising the debt limit. nobody is saying we want to aseed to default, we want cuts in spending going forward and what we've been saying to the white house. >> bob had two different m...

And red sox. yankees 0-6, worst start since 1945. they needed -- you know, it's very rare the second week in april that you say, okay, if my team doesn't win tonight, it may be over. but last night was one of those nights. they did not want to start, 1-8. >> rare but true. huge for red sox and huge for the biggest pitcher, josh beckett. >> 2-7 now. >> let the season begin. let the season begin, no doubt about it. >> charles, this weekend, also, you could look at all these round tables and sunday morning shows, talking about who won the shutdown battle on friday except bob sheiffer who says he ...

Time they had a conversation and briefly touched on his poll numbers. more evidence people are taking him more seriously. it's hard. a lot of people in the press don't want to take him seriously, think he's doing it as a pr stunt and a poll comes out he's running second and a lot of tea party activists in particular find him to be an appealing candidate and messenger. >> something we don't understand, we were at bob sheiffer's symposium at tcu yesterday, the sheiffer school of journalism. we were off the air, but we heard that he came on and he was over the top, maybe that an an exaggeration, ...

Can't shut down my household because i disagree, all in all, it tends to contribute to the sense that there's a system in washington that feeds on itself and the press is parasittal and everybody talks to each other and nobody seems to care about them. >> we went to bob sheiffer's symposium in ft. worth, a great symposium at tcu. >> go hornfrogs, i won't make fun of your football team next year, but the discussion always goes back to political parties, how it creates these false extremes and people feel like they have to fight on certain issues. if you're the democratic party, you want to win ...