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People working people, middle class families, small businesses. if they can't get a bonus tax cut for millionaires and billionaires. >> then, house democrats passed a tax cut extension for all income below a quarter million dollars and that provoked republican outrage. >> trying to catch my breath so i don't refer to this -- this maneuver going on today as chicken crap. all right? but this is nonsense. all right? >> republicans charging game playing, democrats charging obstructionism and never mind the barn yard waste, how do you like these chickens? >> it's almost like the question of do you ...

Caucus is willing to put all of that in jeopardy. hold hostage tax cuts needed by people working people, middle class families, small businesses. if they can't get a bonus tax cut for millionaires and billionaires. >> then, house democrats passed a tax cut extension for all income below a quarter million dollars and that provoked republican outrage. >> trying to catch my breath so i don't refer to this -- this maneuver going on today as chicken crap. all right? but this is nonsense. all right? >> republicans charging game playing, democrats charging obstructionism and never mind the barn yard ...

>> democratic senator robert menendez accusing senate republicans of holding everything hostage to tax cuts. an aide later saying he was talking about the negotiations, not republicans personally. still, whatever you think of the outcome of those negotiations, it's hard to argue that anyone of any political stripe likes what's going on in washington. in poll after poll, americans rank congress right down there with, well, what congressman boehner said. oh, and if you thought lawmakers are only wasting their time bickering over taxes while americans lose their jobs and the s.t.a.r.t. treaty is ...