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Stimulus. there's a lot there for people to be happy about. the trouble is there's a little bit too much for people to be unhappy about. you remember the sequester, this term we've been throwing around washington now for about a year and a half. it was the result of that debt budget deal, that ceiling rise in july of 2011. they said if there was no deal to significantly reduce government spending by this time, midnight tonight, then there would be this draconian and indiscriminate cut across the board, 50% of it, $500 billion over ten years in defense, $500 billion over ten years in other soci...

Mcconnell, not, you know, obviously conservatives, you know, they are saying, look, we want to make a deal. we have to do this ceiling rise. you have got to take that seriously. but, as congresswoman bachmann said she has a titanium spine here. >> listen, i think she is taking something very seriously which is the fact that -- what she is worried about if you go here, if you raise the limit, if you don't have significant spending cuts, let's talk about what's on the table. >> bill: that's never going to happen. boehner is never going to do it, ever. let's just throw that out. >> hold on, can i...