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Complicated and forces us to actually think. >> so just going right to left basically the way lee did is was you've got your christian conservatives that are morality first, and then you've got your trump-type people, your populist americans. and then you have your growth, whatever you want to call it, growth and progress which are traditional republicans, fiscal austerity, but center, center right on social issues. but then you get to the new liberals, which would be like, you know, cory booker. and then you get, you know, which is the old democratic party which is where joe biden wants to be...

To be sure, sometimes deeply so. but they made an enormous cumulative impact on the stability of the economy. then republicans took over the house after that 2010 mid-term whooping and everything stopped. suddenly, we had problems more pressing than economic recovery. >> we're broke. we need to stop the out of control spending history that's going on in washington, d.c.. >> we face a crushing burden of debt. the debt will soon eclipse our entire economy and grow to catastrophic levels in the years ahead. >> after years of discussions and months of negotiations, i have little question that as l...

Oval office, a real solution is probably unattainable. >> in the name of fiscal austerity, republicans pushed to slash public sector jobs, freeze large portions of the federal government. in a staggering act of recklessness, they played around with the nation's debt limit, threatening a cataclysmic default by threatening the full faith and credit of the united states. >> if we don't make structural changes, if we don't actually send the message to the markets, to the people, to businesses that we're going to be fiscally responsible, then, yeah, i won't vote to raise the debt ceiling. i have no...

Basically voted thumbs up or down on next year's school budgets, a test of how much they are willing to give up in the name of fiscal austerity. governor chris christie's budget slashes $820 million overall -- in funding to the schools. christie is urging voters to reject budgets where teachers don't agree to a one-year freeze on wages. teachers unions are kalging the governor to reinstate the "millionaire's tax" on people making over $400,000 a year instead to pay for all this. it's one of these interesting tests. schools are always that one thing that voter raz like, no, no, give them more m...