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Preventing disasters they can see coming like the entitlement crisis or the housing bust. so that make me think that politics are the opposite of superheroes. maybe that is the point. it's awful way to pick president. when all else fails go to obama. did that question help you decide who the better candidate was? >> andrea: no. it made me not like any of them. are we that unoriginal in the g.o.p.? can't they pick the flash. >> greg: they could have had a different connotation. >> andrea: that would have been herman cain i guess. sorry. sorry. had to go there. >> greg: because he was quit-wited...

that's their rationale, then it doesn't fly. because the bill they voted down yesterday essentially said we can create hundreds of thousands of jobs rebuilding our infrastructure making america more competitive and the entire program will be paid for by a tax not only millionaires, but people making a million dollars a year or more. which in the united states is about -- a little over 300,000 people. now, there aren't a lot of small businesses across the country that are making that kind of money. in fact, less than 3% of small businesses make more than $250,000 a year. so what they'...

Relief wells so if it happens it can be capped rapidly. >> a purely campaign question. considering the republicans again today blocked an attempt to raise the liability cap on bp, do you think mr. barton handed every last democrat in this country a campaign ad with that sound bite? can you run with the idea of the gobp? >> well, i can just tell you that i don't think anybody thought those words were going to come out of anybody's mouth today on the republican side, least of all the republican leadership. i know they're not happy with what happened today. i think the american public saw somethi...

>> lastly, a purely campaign question. considering the republicans again today blocked an attempt to raise the liability cap on bp, do you think mr. barton handed every last democrat in this country a campaign ad with that sound bite? i mean, can you run with the idea of the gobp? >> well, i can just tell you that i don't think anybody thought those words were going to come out of anybody's mouth today over on the republican side, least of all the republican leadership. i know they're certainly not happy with what happened today. and i think the american public saw something too. >> indeed the...

Can be capped rapidly. >> a purely campaign question. considering the republicans again today blocked an attempt to raise the liability cap on bp, do you think mr. barton handed every last democrat in this country a campaign ad with that sound bite? can you run with the idea of the gobp? >> well, i can just tell you that i don't think anybody thought those words were going to come out of anybody's mouth today on the republican side, least of all the republican leadership. i know they're not happy with what happened today. i think the american public saw something too. >> indeed they did. congr...