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November in which one republican incumbent after another in which one republican establishment figure after another was taken out by a tea party base that hates any kind of compromise with the democrats. one of the symbols of that has been earmarks. $8 billion of this is earmarks, that's less than 1% of the entire bill. but that became the symbol of what this represents. and so every republican, you know, in the senate looked at this and said, look at mike castle in delaware. look at nevada. look at alaska. in primaries this year where establishment figures were beaten. do i want to be the nex...

They argue it takes power from the congress and only to get money from a much-needed project. it is not. we authorize projects and then you appropriate the money for it. that is the way the system worked for a long, long time. a couple hundred years until the earmarking and pork barrelling and corruption took place. i think that those republicans and democrats who voted against the earmark ban today are going to pay for it. >> sean: if states like california and illinois and new york end up going bankrupt, would you vote for bail-out of the states? >> no. i would not. i express deep sympathy t...

So far, it just sort of happened like a natural disaster. people are responsible for it and we have to fix it and make sure it doesn't happen again. unfortunately, there is a lot more to come. it put the lives of people who cooperated with us in iraq and afghanistan in danger. i don't see a strong enough reaction from this administration or the president of the united states. >> sean: all right, senator mccain. good to see you. thank you for being with us. >> thanks. >> sean: plenty more "hannity" coming up straight ahead. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> earmark ban fails to pass in the sen...

Country. >> interesting thing, though, newly elected members will probably support mcconnell on this. it's the people who have been in office for quite sometime who are holding out on this right now. it's going to be a very interesting situation to see if they decide to change their minds like mitch mcconnell. >> mitch mcconnell as a looeadea couple of days ago are saying you can't do that. we're talking about 2% to 3% of the overnile spespending. and this puts all the pressure on the democrats and only one has come forward and say i agree with it outside the president who backed this ban. she...

Soldier. president obama will present him in a melgd of honor ceremony at 2:00. if you've heard anything from this soldier, he said he's really an average soldier and doesn't feel he's deserved of this honor but he'll go ahead and get it. >> i know. i saw on "60 minutes" he was featured on. >> he'll be here live on friday a little birdie just told me. thank you. >> i'll look for a second source on that. it's confirmed. the second source just confirmed it with me. at 4 minutes after the top of the hour, major news, i think. when you talk about rating and spinning, it sounds like rhetoric. every...