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In their positions even for their state. when you want to put radioactive waste in yucca mountain and abolish the department of education, it won't fall. when rand paul say it's unamerican to pressure bp to do the right thing in the gulf, it's not going to sell. it's not because they're part of a movement but because their positions are too extreme for the general election environment. >> senator cornyn, a prediction for fall. what kind of pickups are you looking at if any in the senate? >> we're lead organize tied in about eight seats currently held by democrats and if the election were held ...

People who are willing to live within their means and to rein in this runaway spending -- >> you talk about nevada. senator reid is pulling ahead of sharon angle. he's up 44% to 37%. this comes after a time when sharron angle made extreme statements about the bp slush fund. she talked about second amendment remedies for her political opponents and the criticism is that tea party injects candidates who are too extreme to actually win re-election. is that a concern for you? >> well, let's look at what harry reid said. he called the former chairman of the federal reserve a hack. he declared the i...

>> i think actually when you look at the choice between where the president has taken the country from what he inherited versus what our colleagues espouse which is in essence the bush economics, reality is in that choice they have a preference for the president's economic policies. let me answer the questions my dear friend, john, wouldn't. they say repeal health care and replace. you have a host of issues you enjoy today that won't be enjoyed anymore. you won't see seniors closing that prescription drug gap they have. you won't be able to have pre-existing conditions be a bar to you getting ...

Who is going to best respond to the economy? i have to say, we're some minutes into this discussion yet and we still have not heard from our colleagues what they would do differently than the bush economic agenda which got us into this mess. we're now in positive job growth. let me make this point. we have the situation right now where our republican colleagues are holding hostage an extension of middle class tax cuts. they've said we're only going to support a continuation of middle class tax cuts, those for people under $250,000 if you also extend the bush tax cuts for the very wealthy. and ...

>> i think actually when you look at the choice between where the president has taken the country from what he inherited versus what our colleagues espouse which is in essence the bush economics, reality is in that choice they have a preference for the president's economic policies. let me answer the questions my dear friend, john, wouldn't. they say repeal health care and replace. you have a host of issues you enjoy today that won't be enjoyed anymore. you won't see seniors closing that prescription drug gap they have. you won't be able to have pre-existing conditions be a bar to you getting ...