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your short answer is no, we will not get any significant entitlement reform? not now. i think what the democrats want to do is kind of box those tax hikes up and get them agreed to in principle. kind of break the republicans back a little on that. then, okay, maybe we can have a discussion on entitlements. ok, there will be incredible resistance among democrats on the left to having that discussion at all. we ll have to see. nick, i feel like the president i know the president won based on campaigning for raising taxes on the rich. i know that a significant portion of america, 60%, said they agree with raising taxes on the rich. even some romney voters said hey, yeah, we should raise taxes on the rich. it seems there s a passionate fwrup of far right conservatives who are saying we don t want to raise taxes on the rich. and they seem to have an outsized amount of power in this discussion. because they are against compromise. they are super passionate. they will primary people ....
You get to the neck level and it s tougher. the glory you had in high school, the feeling of being on top of the world is want going to get you there. if this gentleman who wasn t doing well in grad school, was in a five to seven year doctoral school, and had taken his preliminary evaluation could take his first year comprehensive exam, he might have been that the story went out for him. he might have known that several months ago. it was in may that he started allegedly stock piling his ammunition and bought the first of his four weapons. that might have all happened at that point. that s when he dyed his hair, when things changed, when neighbors described him as sullen and unresponsive. things changed for him. he tried to sign up for a couple dating services. he tried to join the gun club, never followed wrup it was all falling apart for him. maybe at that point, the pathology of figuring out you re not going to be what you wanted ....
you know, just from are a strategic point of view, could it be argued the president is taking kind of page from the gop playbook? you turn away from your weaknesses which in the president s case he can argue is the economy. talk about gay marriage, foreign policy on the anniversary of osama bin laden s death, painting romney as this out-of-touch elitist is that what s happening here? i think that s a part of it. i also think it is part of the the obama campaign is trying to define mitt romney before he has a chance to define himself with voters who are just starting to pay attention and a lot of this is a fight for the middle. there is a lot of appeals to independents. i think that s what you are seeing now is that campaign really trying to define mitt romney with that small fwrup of voters that are going to make a difference in this election. yeah. conversely, obviously, mitt romney is trying to define president obama as a job killer and he has been comparing the president to ....
The eci accuses funding the two groups. they raise questions about the boundaries and tolerated level eyed orioy ideology. some of the groups listed in the ad as having contributed for privacy and media matters, groups that run what are called donor directed funds which the donor parks the money with that fwrup and says what the do with the money. it would be like saying if i use my bank account at bank of america to give a donation to wikileaks bank of america is funding wikileaks. that s a factual matter about in of that. you are at in the center of exactly this debate. i wanted to get your response to this conflict that s opened up a bit around this. around center for american progress and media matters particularly blogs they hosted and have been critical of israel and critical of israel policy. it used the term in certain instances israel first and as a way of highlighting what they see as a diversion to the interest of america and israel ....