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Obama care are beginning to have an effect where it's -- to avoid fines or paying for health care, employers are looking more to part-time workers. that's not a good thing for the economy. it's not a good thing for workers. if i can stand up for the president a little bit, though, he's been getting hammered this week for not having the interpersonal skills on the hill and not being another lbj. it's a lot easier to be another lbj when you have 60 plus senators and a large house majority. he didn't have those. and everyone should have been aware there are limits to how much he'd accomplish in t...

And his agenda? >> i don't think there's any objective facts that could really help the president with this particular congress. i think some people have described the current republican party as sort of post-policy. because really they're so fixated on opposing barack obama that i'm not sure there's any objective set of facts that could change the calculus of how he's able to deal with them. i think what we have is a republican party that needs to decide it has to actually govern. they're just opposing barack obama is not enough. look at the economy and the fact it isn't growing more strongly...

Deficits and cut defense spending and simplify the tax code and lower tax rates. in a deal with president obama they could get the first four, more deficit reduction, protect defense, the democratic president would get some cover in cutting medicare and social security and they could simplify the tax code by taking out expenditures. they are now saying they want none of those things and also not going to get the tax rates and keep the sequester and not have a deal. i've asked a lot of them to walk me through the reasoning here and honestly never come to an answer i understand a little bit. >> ...

In a deal with president obama they could get the first four, more deficit reduction, protect defense, the democratic president would get some cover in cutting medicare and social security and they could simplify the tax code by taking out expenditures. they are now saying they want none of those things and also not going to get the tax rates and keep the sequester and not have a deal. i've asked a lot of them to walk me through the reasoning here and honestly never come to an answer i understand a little bit. >> does that mean they're post policy. even some things that seem like constants don...

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