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A test drive. this new bipartisanship. tell me three fantastic things about president obama. he is a democrat and you are a republican. the one thing that has to change is republicans have got to stop being completely president-bashing. i want your top 3 great things about president obama. >> number one he came from the greatest state in the nation. >> very nice. >> nicely done. >> let me give you a couple of years where i reached out and want to work with him. number is on infrastructure. i don't want to revisit history, but i was a cosponsor of an amendment that jim overstar put forward to d...

Support the infrastructure piece of the president's bill? just the bridge and road fixings? would you vote for that yes? >> if we could pay for it. chris, two points. number one, on the president's original stimulus bill two years ago, i joined with then chairman jim overstar on an amendment. there were 40 republicans at that time that joined jim overstar in an amendment that would have doubled the amount in the president's original stimulus bill to be spent on infrastructure and nancy pelosi would not even allow a single vote on that amendment. i've been pushing our leadership here in the hou...

The same reason president obama hasn't advocated for a six-year highway bill is the same reason that the republican leadership hasn't offered the plan, is because you've got to come up with a way to pay for it. john boehner a few weeks ago in a speech here in d.c. said he's looking at doing a six-year highway bill using the current gas tax coupled with revenue from offshore leasing of offshore drilling rights. i don't care what the pay fors are, but ronald reagan passed one, bill clinton passed one, george w. bush passed one. a six-year highway bill that's paid for -- >> i know, the problem is...

Taken too seriously and is now a glashl ice shelf. they take their role too seriously. 290 pieces of legislation we passed last year are still awaiting action. >> i have to tell you, i know you are a skeptic and you have a right to be a skeptic, but with 290 bills sitting over there, the house is passed. if they don't pass the sec silliation that you passed, i think it's the end of the democratic party as an organization. they have to do it. here the numbers have decided on the health care bill. dennis kucinich they said he would vote for the bill with imperfections. a pro life democrat will s...

Mississippi gulf coast where it's not expected -- they have not on the radar scope much. not been there long. senior democrats. we have got a 13 term democrat ohio think is going down in north dakota earl pomeroy. nine term democrat going down in pennsylvania. we have got 4 committee chairman barney frank, ike skelton, john separate and jim overstar all facing late challenging races all may win even the fact they are being contestside a sign of what year it is. one or two of them may actually go down. >> bill: you don't expect the republicans to take the senate back, do you? >> i think they co...