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We've been saying for a while that the republican party has an image problem, a reputation problem. now new numbers from the nbc/"wall street journal" poll just out prove the point. the democratic party's favorable number is now 44%, and the overall favorable is plus nine. in other words, better positive than negative. the republicans have a 30% favorable right now. that's pretty bad. a negative 15 if you subtract the bad from the good. it gets worst. a word cloud showing the most commonly used words to describe the party, bad, weak, negative. with other words like uncompromising, broken, and ...

Helping obama get elected. he owes them something. i don't totally look at it sin cli for the future but once again the party of the wealthy is against the regular man. things that regular working class people need laying the groundwork for defeat in 2016. party i.d., a long-term sorts of thing that is will just remind people, hey, they're not for us. they're not working for us. 2016 is already begun and not too cool to not -- i'm not too cool to talk about it already. it's begun and the republicans are working toward losing it. >> i don't know if it's working toward losing it but there's an i...

Federal judge. no one is held at gitmo without an independent judiciary. if they are going to be tried, they should be tried in military court. those who attackeddous 9/11, they are war criminals. >> if we are going to detain them, what is the difference between detaining them -- why would the president want to detain them in the territory of the united states? i know there was a prison in illinois that was discussed. if they are going to be detained, does it make a difference where we detain them? >> i think these are not common criminals. they are high-value terrorist targets, keeping them a...

Before a federal judge. no one is held at gitmo until they pass through an independent judiciariry. they should be tried in a military court. those who attacked us on 9/11 is not a common crime. i think they're war criminals. >> greta: why would the president want to detain them in the territory of the united states? there was a prison in illinois that was discussed. if they're going to be detained, does it make a difference where we detain them? >> i think these are not common criminals. i think they're high value terrorist targets and keeping them away from population centers is smart. >> gr...

Protected? that's the problem that republicans face. labor does have a bit of an upper hand on this one. but then again, you look at all the stuff being offered as concessions. it's going to hit the working class. they know the history of the negotiations. they know the entitlement programs that the cuts that tend to be made affect them more than others. but republicans -- they have an image problem when they are out there saying we need to protect the tax rates of the top 2%. everyone knows the recent history of income inequality. >> could the uncertainty hurt the economy? i know you have tal...