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>> and then the second catalyst for this phenomenon was something we don't talk about much, mccain-feingold. those law passed back in 2002 by limited contributions to political parties helped divert the flow of money to outside spending groups and super pacs we're talking about here but also into think tanks, and policy institutes, things like media matters monitoring the truthfulness of various cable outlets. and so you've seen this kind of calculation by money interest, rich individuals, and folks with money in this country ...

we have people like john single sergeant whose innate ability -- he was a prodigy. he was painting some of the greatest pictures ever painted by an american when he was still in his 20s in paris working primarily under a french painter who really was his master and who sent him down to spain to study valaska because he said everything you need to know is in valaska. it went on and on. vincent st. gardens was a boy growing up in the streets of new york, put to work at all of 13 years old by his father, very little education, but a great deal of talent, but also this drive, this desire...

it took this long. [applause] in fact if you remember the original agenda of the so-called tea party movement was its complaint against the bailout of wall street, but biden by maneuvers that i don't entirely comprehend, it was largely taken over by the republican party. i think the republican party is starting to have second thoughts about it, but the protests of the occupy wall street movement remind me very much in the protests of the 1890s where it first when the populist got together they didn't have much of an agenda, but they had a sense that rings had really gone wrong. and p...

themselves into a corner? they're taking heat from the republicans, conservative media. what's the path out of the stand-off? and after a tough year the end of december is looking better for president obama. will the trend continue? we'll look at his campaign strategy for holding on to the white house. it's thursday, december 22nd, 2011, and this is "the daily rundown." i'm chris cillizza in for chuck todd this morning. let's get to my first reads of the morning. we begin with the massive game of political chicken that is going on in our nation's capitol. in a last-ditch effort t...

plus the payroll tax cut extension. has house republicans backs themselves into a corner? they're taking heat from the republicans, conservative media. what's the path out of the stand-off? and after a tough year the end of december is looking better for president obama. will the trend continue? we'll look at his campaign strategy for holding on to the white house. it's thursday, december 22nd, 2011, and this is "the daily rundown." i'm chris cillizza in for chuck todd this morning. let's get to my first reads of the morning. we begin with the massive game of political chicken th...