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Get what he wants. no one on capitol hill is scared of him. >> you know, i share maureen's frustration, deep, deep frustration. and there really was 90% public opinion on the side of gun legislation. this was the mildest of gun legislation and the mildest imaginable and it failed. in public, president obama was eloquent and in the final analysis, angry and convincing yet again. i think the hope and maybe the fantasy is that barack obama is somehow going to become lyndon johnson and he is going to bend over one legislator after another with both persuasion and threat and all of the levers of po...

Briefing because i was at my own politico briefing, but what he didn't say but it's palpable among republicans here, deep frustration. this should be a winnable race. the major issue is the economy. president obama does not have confidence among the electorate in his leadership skills. that sounds like a recipe for a losing election but at best it's tied and probably in reality, president obama is ahead. it's precisely because of this issue we're talking about, mitt romney's failure to establish a compelling personal connection for his leadership. >> just a brief round the table here, chris ci...

In a new behind the scenes book on american forces in afghanistan, called the operators, michael hastings details deep frustration among america's troops and commanders, michael, we know, i think a lot of us, you first came to the national stage with the rolling stone article on stanley mcchristal. i want to talk about the subject of the book and the frustration that is there is regarding rules of engagement and the hatred that the troops have for the avenue fw afghans. >> this is really about the run away military and it's kind of the not safe for work version of your book about afghanistan. ...

Because they can swallow the idea of kicking the ball forward just a bit. but one of the underlying problems is when you fund thing this way it is a hop, skip and a jump. it does not release money that's been planned over the long term and it makes it very difficult for a number of funding because of the mechanics of how budgeting works. >> let's talk about that deep frustration. 54 republicans voted against the bill, including 20 freshmen. how does he move forward? does he stick with the tea party demands for these deep cuts or work with the senate? >> i talked to a republican staffer just ye...

Qualified way because, if you look at the big country that we all think about all the time, and that's egypt, you have a president who is maybe not hated as violently, but is universally unpopular. of course, i mean hosni mubarak, the 82-year-old and increasingly aging president that appears to run for another term this fall. he has almost no legitimacy inside egypt. it's a police state in many ways, deep unhappiness, deep frustration. there the military is much more effective at repressing dissent than the tunisian military was, which actually played a relatively stand-off role. so my guess i...