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Debt with our perhaps our credit rating dropping. all this before christmas and the holidays. what a horrendous performance. and the tea party types led by -- and i do believe he is on his way to getting the nomination next time -- rand paul, is enjoying it all. because getting nothing done proves nothing can get done. and doing nothing is what his philosophy. he wins twice. >> well, you know, chris, i've done a lot of writing and using vital statistics on congress, great resource on productivity and how you sort of measure it. this congress, this house has passed 22 bills in its first eight m...

Bargain. you remember last summer the closed-door negotiations between the president and himself and speaker of the house john boehner, republican, was on table $3 in tax cuts for every dollar of revenue raising. according to the white house version of events. they brought it back to john boehner to house republicans and rejected it. they were talking about $4 trillion in deficit reduction but by any measure it -- paul ryan is absolutely right. numbers are staggering and national debt in this country approaching $14 trillion. president's own budget next year, he proposed last week has a defens...

you still have almost 10% unemployment here in florida. you still have home values down and continuing to go down. you still have record number of foreclosures in florida. you still have median incomes suffering, middle income families suffering. >> florida is an epicenter of the housing crisis that put us into the great recession of 2008 and 2009. cnn senior political analyst david gergen joins us from jacksonville. david, mitt romney is not only focused on president obama, he's got newt gingrich to deal with as well. florida was one of the states that was hardest hit by the housing...

434,000 for the last couple months. what is more, the headline unemployment rate that you are referring to measures people who applied for a job in the last four weeks. that's misleading time to spend when you have 6 million people who have been out of work for six months or longer. if you measure it with u-6 rather than u-3, measure it by people applied by a job within the last six months who don't have work, you look at an unemployment rate with 15.7% and if you add to that the 2.3 million discouraged workers who have just given up, then you look at a real unemployment rate of close to doubl...

And stop it, why didn't they do it weeks ago? if they can dial it down, why is this not just the end of it? they say what they need is the relief wells. of course the truth be told, it's the relief wells that will allow them to get the oil out and keep it and use it to do what oil companies do with oil. the other thing is that if you were to just measure the flow, which they could have done over the past weeks or months, measure it, we know exactly how much oil is coming out of there. then we'll know exactly how much damage they caused to the environment and we'll fine them exactly, according ...