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Budget. they've been doing these continuing resolutions. they didn't need to get this omnibus through they could have done a continuing resolution. i assume pretty soon they'll figure out monopoly is much more fun to play than congress. >> does senator reid look weak tonight? >> he did what he had to do because he didn't have the votes, but honestly this omnibus spending bill was like a bunch of alcoholics about to go into alcoholics anonymous and saying, okay, one last drink before the new folks come in to town and we're going to have to cut spending. and i think they decided at the very leas...
>> you think, steve, this is a sign of the power of the tea party movement? >> absolutely. i think tonight you're seeing not so much the implications of the november election in which republicans won big, but all of the primaries that came before november in which one republican incumbent after another in which one republican establishment figure after another was taken out by a tea party base that hates any kind of compromise with the democrats. one of the symbols of that has been earmarks. $8 billion of this is earmarks, that's less than 1% of the entire bill. but that became the symbol of w...