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Democracy should be. we don't want to be just the country that talks endlessly about being broke and needing to destroy the fabric, the social fabric. we want to be the country that talks about what we want to do for the next generation of children, not just to relieve them of debt, but to inspire them to believe this is a great country again. >> yet, even some of those ideals, depending upon your point of view -- if you think somebody like a chairman ryan embodies that by what he's talking about on the budget is tempered by a political reality. charlie cook writes about it in his column in "t...

Country again. >> yet, even some of those ideals, depending upon your point of view -- if you think somebody like a chairman ryan embodies that by what he's talking about on the budget is tempered by a political reality. charlie cook writes about it in his column in "the national journal" on saturday. i'll put a portion of it up on the screen. "it's a little short of suicidal to drop a medicare reform package, even a voucher plan that would be optional for those currently older than 55, into tough budget negotiations stymied over republican demands for deep budget cuts. democrats have issues g...

Automatically? >> i'm not saying it's wrong. i'm saying i will get the sense that we will see a field of candidates outside of the conventional political establishment as a result of the credi!lity disruption that will remind us of a trip to the zoo. >> what is going to be the agenda of a third party candidate that works? >> third party candidate that works would have a strong job creation and reform package that goes to tax code simplification and investment development in this country that they could sell. i'm not saying wheat get that third party candidate. i think there is open territory. ...

The muslim brotherhood which is perhaps the best organized movement in this country after the overthrow of hosni mubarak. more than 18 million people who participated in that vote reform package was overwhelmingly passed, but there are some serious concerns, particularly among some of the secular revolutionaries, the young people that we saw in tahir square that some of the religious leaders were lobbying in favor of the referendum using the mosques as a pulpit to do that, anderson and that was raising some serious concerns about where these muslim parties are going forward, how powerful they ...

Of the authors of that bill, a republican state senator last night to get his perspective. here's what he had to say. >> we are under siege as a state. we're not competitive. we've got well over 9% unemployment. this is just one piece of an overall reform package designed to stabilize the state. >> reporter: now, the bill in question would eliminate collective bargaining for state unionized workers, would also change arbitration rules and require employees to pay up to 20% for their own health care. yesterday we saw massive rallies around the state and particularly here in columbus where we sa...