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Republican budget is generally seen as more of a liability than an asset for republicans running for higher office today, because a lot of its ideas are particularly unpopular, particularly those around medicare, the progressive caucus budget is made up of policies that poll really, really well. that are very popular when you go out and ask real-life humans about them. the progressive budget, for example, calls for ending the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. it calls for letting those tax cuts expire at the the end of the year. that idea is wildly popular when you ask americans abou...

Budget from last year. while the ryan budget, the house republican budget is generally seen as more of a liability than an asset forgrepublicans running for higher office today, because a lot of its ideas are particularly unpopular, particularly those around medicare, the progressive caucus budget is made up of policies that poll really, really well. that areç very popular when yo go out and ask real-life humans about them. the progressive budget, for example, calls for ending the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. it calls for letting those tax cuts expire at the the end of the yea...

Sociology. when they cover liberals, it's anthropology. the beltway right now says the deficit negotiations have to be between president obama and the paul ryan plan. why not between president obama and the progressives? this really is about fixing the deficit. why is the most fiscally responsible budget plan that's been submitted and introduced. why is it not on the table? joining us is matt miller. he's an msnbc contributor. he served as a senior adviser from 1993 to 1995 under president bill clinton. thanks for being here. >> glad to be here. >> the progressive budget is a very populous pla...

Code. the beltway, because they are not the official spokesperson like the president is, they tend to get ignored. they have to be more creative to get attention for their ideas. >> i will say that we get lobbied all the time and stuff to cover. you would think a show like mine would get lobbied all the time to cover things. uncovering the progressive budget has been liberal tweeting about it. it's sort of been it. i hear you about the publicity. in your latest column, you said, you played with the idea that what you should write for the column over and over again is the house republican budge...

>> of course. >> i know the answer to that. what do you feel about the people on capitol hill about the pushback numbers are phony? >> what else can they say? they are left with just flatout being what do you call them, healthcare deniedeniers? they're left with little more than that. and pretty soon the real life stories are going to be emerging and they are already. those stories need to be put out and emerge. because we know their rereal life stories of people not getting healthcare are being denied and revealed as families several times over. >> we got to bring you back to talk about the p...