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Entitlements and entitlement reform. despite the fact we know it's the holy grail, what walden did really looks like political pandering. it's a way of getting out there saying yop the seniors to get mad at me even though we're the party that cries budget reform, don't touch seniors. it doesn't smell good. >> but we know what he's doing. it's not that changing the way social security does is somewhat unpopular. it's really unpopular. they've tested this every which way from sunday, and he's out there saying don't do it. >> it's very unpopular but so is tinkering with medicare too which were re...

Well, walden is standing behind what he said, in a statement provided to us this morning, "chairman walden supports the budget passed by house republicans that preserves and protects medicare and social security while also balancing the budget in ten years. he disagrees with president obama's political plan that hurts current seniors, just so he can pay for more wasteful spending." we hear this clarification, by the way, not sitting well, with members of the gop leadership. but this entire episode raises too larger points. one, it shows why reforming any of these programs is so difficult, beca...

Haven't finalized reading the president's budget. there are things in that budget that i obviously am not going to like. i'm hoping that there are some things that we can get together and start working on. but i frankly have not seen the comments of mr. walden, and i haven't finished reading -- >> there is widespread concern in the democratic caucus here in the house of representatives, with the president's proposal. so i will share that. maybe mario and i, we've been locked up in a room with our staff, trying to get this done. so excuse us if we don't know, if we're not, if we're not up to da...

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