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Right the tea party has dragged the republican party. that's pretty good political analysis of what happened in the house, isn't it? >> i think that's true. i mean, i think passing this budget could be to be the republicans what letting babe ruth go was for my dear boston red sox. maybe the curse won't last for 86 years, but i think substantive and politically this is a big mistake. the other thing is, almost nothing ever unites democrats, yet this budget did it. but i'm actually feeling optimistic about the long term of solving the budget problem much more than i was a couple weeks ago. solvi...

$6.2 trillion. i think there was a profiler -- paul ryan was bold no matter what congressman weaner says. >> we'll go here. >> great proposal for starting off the conversation, because basically all the democrats have to say right now is we don't like it, so the republicans have to say, so what do you got? >> last word. >> i think it's the difference between what is good policy and what is politics is really the debate that's happening, because frankly, the whole budget debate is a little bit of folly, because we're tin kerg around the edges and the truth is, decisions are being made on ideolo...

Through the roof. the idea that if you really want to shrink the size of government, you exclude the department of defense. the secretary of defense says he can do $178 billion of cuts in mr. ryan's program, he says no, only 78 is enough. this is hundreds of billions of dollars in spending that are there. and further to say you're going to shrink the size of government, he's also giving another giant tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires by eliminating the top tax bracket. this is a phony shell gak, government by ostrich. if you reduce the amount of numbers on a piece of paper, somehow sic...

Vigorous debate about the collapse in american revenue as a result of unemployment housing and the swiss cheese that is our tax code as opposed to this nonsense about a couple billion here and there, when you and i both know the scale of our problems is a trillion-dollar scale, not a billion-dollar scale. >> yeah, i think that's right. look, we're looking at a very narrow sliver of the so-called nondefense discretionary. defense is a pretty big piece. and we have to realize, one-third of our debt and deficits came from the fact that over the last eight years we're giving tax cuts literally to ...