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This is ridiculous we spent all this time talking about how much damage the other side is going to insist on inflicting to the economy instead of talking about how do we get on a sustainable fiscal path to have strong economic growth and the prosperity that we ought to have and that our kids deserve. i agree this has all been misplaced. i want to get this behind us and do the best we possibly can on the tax side and focus on the real problem here, which is spending. >> sean: senator johnson, i'm told that sequestration will go through regardless of what maybe minut mini deal might han here. is...

Best case scenario. they get defense sequestration, they get to raise taxes on everybody, and then they blame the republicans. >> yeah. and for howard dean, he's a man who basically believes in the european unionization of the united states. if you believe in that as obama does, too, this makes perfect sense. >> i've got the cd of yours. do you really sing on this. >> i sing on that with a full orchestra. you sing the devil went down to georgia. people said you killed the whole right wing pundit music business with your rendition. i felt i had to do something to address it. >> running on egg n...

Spending cuts. that is what the president is going to say. >> remember, martha, he said the defense sequestration will not come into play. during one of the debates he said that is happen. nobody really believes these actual spending cuts will materialize. we've seen this play before. we saw it under president reagan when he agreed to tax increases for spending cuts. those spending cuts never materialized by democrats. same thing happened with george h.w. bush, when he agreed to raise taxes in exchange for spending cuts. the spending cuts never happen. that is the issue and that is the real pr...

Number of ships since 1915 and the smallest airports in its history. >> president obama is the one that basically in the stand down with the republican congress proposed this defense sequestration that could happen if we do not have a debt deal before december 31st. the burden is on him on these defense cuts. >> house republicans proposed cutting embassy security, which may have hurt things in benghazi. we can play this game. but i believe republicans are the ones who have been cutting security and making painful cuts that -- >> i love it when democrats try defend what happened in benghazi. fo...

Tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. we can't do that. we've had this great debate. washington is this interesting place where things happen and months later everybody has a panic attack. a couple weeks ago the panic attack was on defense sequestration and nobody thinks that we ought to have a defense budget that's decided by arbitrary numbers. okay. so i ask any republican, i'd ask chairman steele, do you want to make sure our men and women in afghanistan and iraq and around the world have the resources that they need or do you think that money is better spent on a tax cut for milliona...