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Cbo. it seemed like it wasn't a big deal for them. >> it wasn't. i think there's a recognition behind the scenes that this is a political attack ad waiting to happen. democrats waiting to seize on this moment. i spent a lot of the day with allot of my colleagues asking members after member of the house republican conference are you concerned about the idea that you would be willing to move forward on a bill where you don't know how many people it would cover and you don't know how much it would cost? this is what they had to say. >> reporter: how do you explain to constituents the fact that re...

Already. so that being said, there is also a vulnerability that drutr brings on to himself when he goes after this. there's been research done by some prominent republican operatives, looking into this. they looked at how leaning republican women, independent women, and leaning democratic women voters react to attacks on bill clinton's conduct with respect to the monica lewinsky affair. and they all seem to feel very sympathetic to hillary clinton when that attack is launched. and they have wide disagreements on policy grounds. they don't necessarily trust her on foreign policy grounds. but wh...

Work, but for every dollar of that there's more than $2.50 for obama's priorities that no one expected was going to be in the deal. i think on straight policy grounds, extending not just the bush middle class tax cuts but the obama tax cuts and the unemployment benefits and getting the money to encourage fax incentives for businesses to invest in factories and equipment in this country, i think on net it's what we had to do for the middle class and to keep the economy going, not pull the rug out from under it. i think on just straight policy grouchb grounds we should get this done before the j...

York times" that obama's democratic party nationally decided the only way they could hold power was through personal attacks? >> i think you would have to have been a very cynical person back in the fall, in november of 2008 to assume things would devolve this much. mark and i kind of are amazed. we never thought there would be a president more polarizing than bill clinton. then george w. bush proved to be more poll rising. you thefr thought there would be one more poll rising than george w. it turns out barack obama is. i think democrats feel like what they're doing is attacking what they see...

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