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i think the mistake was saying there was literally no member of the senate i will not work with. wellstone and domenici worked together. ted kennedy worked with orrin hatch. the whole problem is that places like the sharks and the jets and i m not going to play into that. she did seem to play into that. what do you think, michael? we re going to hit brown on something just as deep. i agree with susan on that, and i think it speaks to the overall tone in the senate and in the house, quite frankly, that you can t work with anybody. god forbid you actually announce ahead of time before an election that you intend to work with the other side to solve the nation s problems. i think she fell into that trap. i think susan had the right answer, the best answer would have been, i m going to the senate to work on the people s business. that means working with everybody who is a colleague in the senate to solve the problem. so i m not going to pick one side or the other p.m. i m there to wo ....
i think the mistake was not she didn t have an answer. she named lugar. he s gone. yes, ind. but i think the mistake she made was not saying something like, there was literally no member of the senate i will not work with. wellstone and domenici worked together on mental health issues. ted kennedy worked with orrin hatch and brownback. the whole problem is that place is like the sharks and the jets, and i m not going to play into that. she did seem to play into that. what do you think, michael? i thought we were going to hit brown on somet i agree with susan on that, and i think it speaks to the overall tone in the senate and in the house, quite frankly, that you can t work with anybody. god forbid you actually announce ahead of time before an election that you intend to work with the other side to solve the nation s problems. i think she fell into that trap. i think susan had the right answer, the best answer would have been, i m going to the senate to work on the peop ....
curious things, places where a guy named jimmy who began his journey to become president carter. places where inevitable winners like hillary clinton and howard dean lost. places where somebody could rewrite the story that this republican race has come down to mitt versus newt. somebody like ron paul. newt gingrich has been on both sides of a long list of issues. sometimes in the same week. it s wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions. because then people have to ask themselves what will you tell me next time? ron paul hit newt gingrich pretty hard this week and he s got the money to keep at it. $3.6 million in cash. even better, he s got the army, time magazine reports paul insiders claim to have hard pledges from 20,000 caucusgoers, a record 120,000 iowans showed up in the 2008 republican caucuses. and one more number. 30. congressman paul joins me now from his home state of texas. congressman, you were greeted this morning by a new des m ....
But a whole bunch of things were on the table for the right amount. if people wanted to do a $4 trillion deal, there were discussions about dealing with the major sacred cows of our side. i m just telling you, every one of them was on the table, and they know it. and it will be documented, ultimately, in papers that i know will come out of this. but i don t want to get stuck there right now. the answer is, every one of them are on the table. they would not do the revenue. look, put it in a perspective. simpson bowles, worked for thousands of hours. bipartisan, republican, democrat, people outside of the senate and elected politics. they came out and said, in order to do a deal you need $4 trillion, and you need $2 trillion of it as revenue. domenici, $2 trillion in revenue. the gang of six, which is currently sitting senators, democrats, and republicans, said you need about $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion in revenue. so our first offer to them was not $1.8 trillion or $2 trillion in reven ....
All those things. but a whole bunch of things were on the table for the right amount. if people wanted to do a $4 trillion deal, there were discussions about dealing with the major sacred cows of our side. i m just telling you, eery one of them was on the table, and they know it. and itill be documented, ultimately, in paps that i know will come out of this. but i don t want to get stuck there right now. the answer is, every one of them are on the table. they would not do therevenue. look, put it in a perspective. simpson bowles, worked for thousands of hours. bipartisan, republican, democrat, people outside o the senate and elected politics. they came out and said, in order to do a deal you need $4 trillion, and you need $2 trillion of it as revenue. domenici, $2 trillion in revenue. the gang of six, which is currently sitting senators, democrats, and republicans, said you need about $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion in revenue. ....