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Problem getting up to speed and not making these kind of snarky comments which in a climate where you still have upwards of 10% unemployment, that's just lethal. and you can see that even though he tried to walk it back a little, he's still basically saying the same thing. this is what happens when you are the king of the hill. you know? >> tom dewey lost an election because he made fun of an engineer on a train. every labor guy in the country said this guy looks down on us, great, i'm voting for the other guy. i'm voting for harry truman. >> it's lethal stuff. >> thank you. i think you're pre...

One? or what? >> i didn't buy the argument. it's basically saying the government is fully funding two things and somehow, that's competition. if you take the time to explain that to people, they get it. it's speculation to think that 20, 30, 40 years from now, that might somehow drive down the costs. and what i was telling republican freshmen, it's just like look, let's keep it simple. we can cut $450 million today -- from a program that i consider wasteful and one you can go back to your constituents this weekend and say i cut $450 million from the budget today, and that was really what we tr...

Up there -- i worked there for year, not as long as you -- maybe i did work there longer than you, but not as an elected official. i worked as a speaker. once you were on appropriations. it didn't matter what your party was. you liked to appropriate because you have the power to say where it goes. what goes on with a member, male or female, they get on a committee, they start porking it up? >> you know, i've only been in congress now for a little over two years. in the first year, we were still doing earmarks. by the second part of my first term, the republican side stopped. we're all not taki...

You might not like the first one? or what? >> i didn't buy the argument. it's basically saying the government is fully funding two things and somehow, that's competition. if you take the time to explain that to people, they get it. it's speculation to think that 20, 30, 40 years from now, that might somehow drive down the costs. and what i was telling republican freshmen, it's just like look, let's keep it simple. we can cut $450 million today -- from a program that i consider wasteful and one you can go back to your constituents this weekend and say i cut $450 million from the budget today, a...

They lost the bid. so this is the kind of stuff that hopefully -- it really was, chris, i've got to be honest with you. i thought we were going to lose this vote because it's very complicated. but the fact that we won, it shows we might have a chance to change the culture in washington and it was a good victory. >> it's good to see something new on the hill. strange bedfellows, but you saved $500 million in federal spending. congratulations. josh marshall is a smart guy. always looking for something new under the sun here. i looked at the lists of liberals, all the big cities, classic liberals...