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In. but through a number of things, and the administration said they were thinking about this, i'll give them some credit for it. if nothing happens this year everybody's taxes go up, not just the rich, because the bush tax cuts expire in their entirety, and there are cuts across the board. except the administration did exempt social security, medicare, and programs for poor people. now, there will still be cuts in the environment and transportation i don't want to see. but the military will be cut bad. so that now makes it clear to people, it's a zero sum game. when the issue was should we cu...

It kind of seems like a genius move. it effectively killed any chance that mr. huntsman had for rivaling mr. obama for the presidency. but it wasn't the only move like that that president obama naid made early in his administration. it wasn't the only bipartisan pick, not even the only high-profile bipartisan pick. three months before president obama nominated jon huntsman to go to china you may remember this bipartisan scene at the white house. >> thank you very much, mr. president. and thank you for taking this rather extraordinary step of asking me to join your administration as commerce se...

And i'm going to prevent that. >> i don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building. >> yeah, then he got elected. george w. bush ran for president in the year 2000 as ron paul. not really, but kind of, on national security. he talked about a humble american foreign policy. he pos t administration had used the military way too much. he said that as president he would use the military less, he certainly wouldn't allow the u.s. military to be used for nation building. he said that over and over again. then after 9/11 as president george w. bush launched two massive grou...

When you achieve success by doing that, of course they're going to continue to do something like that. and i would not write these guys off. remember, rachel, they have -- as silly as they seem, and i admit, rick santorum? i'm just like watching this. my mouth agape. i cannot believe it. but this is a party that's well organized, extremely well funded. they have a powerful infrastructure. they're able to bounce back from the most incredible defeat. just two years ago. all those scandals in the bush administration. the delay congress. oh, my god. i would not write them off. although i will say ...

Inexplicably judd gregg changed his mind and he withdrew his nomination to be commerce secretary. so about that whole it's my obligation to serve thing, i was just kidding. his book "the promise" about the obama administration's first year, here's what jonathan alter wrote about how things went down. he said, "obama chose a bona fide conservative, senator judd gregg, for an important economic post, commerce secretary. and what happened? instead of viewing the choice as a gist yur of bipartisanship, republicans hounded gregg as a trader until he dropped out of the cabinet. "this place is insane...