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In primaries. the most significant thing that happened this year was a defeat of not a liberal republican but lisa murkowski and robert bennett through mainstream conservatives, the defeat in colorado and in nevada, colorado, and clearly nowhere and not necessarily people wholly implausible. that's what my republican colleagues fear. there was a clear majority in the house and a consensus in -- well, there's a poll from the pentagon, a majority of the senate to get rid of don't ask, don't tell, that deprives the military of good people. every single republican, 42 of them, including the more l...

Of george bush. >> hats off to speaker pelosi. they may call it a lame-duck congress but it quacks and it did something important today. they passed the tax cut for the middle class, only for the middle class, those who are $250,000 below, it's good economics and good policy and get this, 60 plus percent of the public believes it as well. i say congratulations, it's the right thing to do. who is out there dumping all over this? let's listen to what john boehner, the incoming speaker of the house had to say. >> i'm trying to catch my breath so i don't refer to this maneuver going on today as ch...

Substantively but they had to work with the democrats. boehner has people that he thinks shouldn't work with us. i wish we could expect more cooperation but this kind of name calling thaw just quoted it, that undermines any cooperation. >> i completely agree with your take. we've seen the republican party in the early stages of control in the house and taking the agenda of this president and congress hostage and taking the agenda that we need hostage. is there any hope and is this a vain hope on my part that the president will make an appeal to the nation, you could get the middle class tax cu...

$250,000 below, it's good economics and good policy and get this, 60 plus percent of the public believes it as well. i say congratulations, it's the right thing to do. who is out there dumping all over this? let's listen to what john boehner, the incoming speaker of the house had to say. >> i'm trying to catch my breath so i don't refer to this maneuver going on today as chicken scrap but this is nonsense. we're 23 months from the next election and the political games have already started, trying to set up -- >> let me tell you what is nonsense. his language is an outrage. people should be fur...