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Nuthouse. [laughter] [applause] the place where some wackos closed the government and throw hundreds of thousands of people out of work and then they turn around and say they are creating jobs. These wackos that disrupt funerals for military personnel who died abroad and then they say they are doing that to strengthen our military. It is absolutely crazy, absolutely irrational. This on the other end of our national mall. Total irrationality and the shining ideals of our nation. Its not two separate cities. Its the same city and its our national capital. It is very representative of what americ...

The bat the fiscal cliff, all reports are that congress can retroactively prevent the tax hikes set to begin today. It has one more day to prevent automatic spending cuts that take in on wednesday. Our coverage of this class continues this morning on washington journal. If you want all along, go to c span. Org fiscalcliff. We will begin with your take on this emerging deal. Democrats republican independents remember to send us a twit a tweet at twitter. Com. Facebook. Com cspan. Or at cspan. Org. The senate voted around 2 00 a. M. Eastern time. Here are the senators that voted no. Michael benn...

Guaranteed failure. We hope within the scope of these conversations we are able to move the ball forward. They will have to decide what the scope is. How much we want to fight off and shoe as part of these negotiations. That will be one of the early decisions we try and reach. The good news is that we hope that our republican colleagues have learned the right lesson from the debacle we just went through, unnecessary pain. It did not have to be that way. We are hoping that our colleagues will put down the clubs and recognize that this negotiation should be between the two budgets and no one sho...

What are the chances, particularly now that republicans have given up a tax increase in january and are taking a hard line now, what are the chances of getting a bigger agreement to tackle our deficit . That is a very fair question. I was disappointed in the fact that the supercommittee did not achieve a positive result. In this latest round, the democrats have been trying to get to the negotiating table since march. That is when the house passed the budget and the Senate Democrats passed their budget. The normal courses to begin negotiations. We were blocked by republicans in the house and se...

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