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Shouldve known better were saying that it would not matter if we failed to meet our obligations. I think that changed the discussion, as you see today, being able to fairly easily extend the debt limit. But i remain frustrated a lot of days that things that should be easy, that everybody can agree on are hard to do because of the super power of minorities here. Some already have said that you may have higher aspirations. Forget it. This is as high as it goes. 58 years old. When i decided to do this i thought, ok, do you know how much energy you have for this . And where do you go from here and...

Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a democrat from north dakota. I want to begin with one of your campaign ads. You describe your mom as a janitor, your dad as someone who never finished high school and you are one of seven. What was that like . We did not think it was all that rare. Back then, a lot of people in the world war ii generation did not finish high school, who had to help out on the farm. An eighth grade education was considered the most you could ascribe to. For us, it was not odd. Our dad was always a Community Leader and so we never thought about education as being what you learned in scho...

The push for privatization of social security. That is the blueprint. That is not an agenda i can support. Nor the code7 Many Americans have ever been to. How would you describe yourself . It is stunningly beautiful. People who believe there is not anything they cannot accomplish. I say that is the biggest difference that i see. Here, if you tell somebody an idea and you think you can work, they will say, that is a good idea but that cannot happen. I do not think that will happen. In north dakota, if you have a good idea and a lot of enthusiasm behind it, it seems manageable. We can get it don...

Something that i think is an issue for journalists and citizens for the next 20 years, which is theres been a distinction in law and more generally between metadata and content, so some people have a thought that if government has access to your phone calls, thats really troubling. If they have access to metadata, meaning what numbers are calling what numbers, thats a completely different problem. We in the review group are uneasy with that distinction. That if the government has access to knowledge about whom you are calling and when and where, meaning the numbers, and it can figure out who t...

Host do you think that argument is going over well with voters out there . Guest i dont really think it is. We have the highest place of unemployment in the country and the highest foreclosure rate in the country. President obama has not been good for nevada. All these statistics show that we are worse off now than we were four years ago. It is time to put somebody else in there. That is why you see the polls narrowing the closer we get to the election. Host we are taking your calls in this segment. This is former state Party Chairman dan burdish. Give us a call. We still have that line set up...