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Thing he had to do was change the definition in washington of what grand bargain looks like because it looks like the grand bargain that we imagined a year, year and a half ago on taxes and spending and everything is probably a bridge too far, if you will. this is a revised grand bargain. again, jim touched on this. i think, in a way, the president was speaking over the heads of those in congress, as he has a lot, to try to reach ceos, to try to reach businesses, to ultimately put pressure on the mcconnells and the boehners to say, look, we have an opportunity here. we have an opportunity to get something he wants and something we want desperately. again, we have the funding mechanism. when we talk about individual tax reform, it s hugely popular except, when you take that next step, every one of us is going to have something we don t want to give up, right? there s $2 trillion. it s popular until it s not. mika, we ve got to go to break right now. what? we re going to be talki ....
Leadership gets their own cadillac plan. doesn t have to be on obama care. the boehners, pelosis, everyone else and other members are starting to worry. their staff is starting to leave. i agree with dana, they re going to try to get out of it, all the people that pushed for it, voted for it, don t like it. they have celebrities, the celebrities don t have anything to do with it. it is so hypocritical and wrong. washington people carve out the best deal for themselves. that s what i mean. then we pay, bob. that s the point. it is terrible, but it is politics. i don t think they re going to get away with it this time. this could be the straw that breaks the the rabbit? if they have the cadillac of plans, we need a car metaphor for obama care. the nova. the pacer! ....
so far what s going down is leadership gets their own cadillac plan. doesn t have to be on obama care. the boehners, pelosis, everyone else and other members are starting to worry. their staff is starting to leave. i agree with dana, they re going to try to get out of it, all the people that pushed for it, voted for it, don t like it. they have celebrities, the celebrities don t have anything to do with it. it is so hypocritical and wrong. washington people carve out the best deal for themselves. that s what i mean. then we pay, bob. that s the point. it is terrible, but it is politics. i don t think they re going to get away with it this time. this could be the straw that breaks the the rabbit? if they have the cadillac of plans, we need a car metaphor for obama care. the nova. the pacer! ....
Politics, don t show any contrast, don t rock the boat,s so you have the ted cruzs of the world coming in and the boehners saying we node to caught deal on this, reform on immigration, talk about gay marriage. we need a reformation within the party. is that what the base of the party wants? and if they don t want that, if ted cruz is the voice for that party, how do you get there? well, the base does seem to actually want really a lot of these broad contrasts as cruz was talking about. chris, the big difference is that in 2011 right after republicans ended up winning the 2010 midterms, they won. they felt like they had a mandate. and so the question is even though you end up having these tough talks, the political reality is different and you might end up saying, look, we d like to cut a deal now and then draw a lot of these broad contrasts later on come later in 2013 but let s get our medicine. let s take it now and then go forward. right. ....
Things, identify thi s things, i think they will did their chances of beating the president a disservice. there might be a case to be made that you might think you re doing a little better, but unemployment is over 8%, why waste the argument? you cover the senate, mitch mcconnell said his goal is to make sure that president obama will not win re-election, do you think the establishment guys, the mcconnells, the boehners and do you think they want to bring the culture wars coming back up? no, i don t think so. you haven t seen a debate about this at all under mcconnell, and they will recede in the coming weeks. they will bring the economy back as the main issue. like david said, this is an issue that they can win on even if there are signs of a recovery, there are still millions who are underemployed and there were promises that were made that they think they can pin the president for not ....