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Is that they have this agenda that is on the one hand very plutocratic but on the other hand represent states where there's a lot of rural poverty and things like that so they need to find other ways to sell the agenda and it's only when there's focus on those agenda items that they end up in these, tripping over themselves with these sort of false claims. >> i'm amazed by the enduring ability of the paul ryan budget to screw over republican politicians, and i remember at the time, i mean, rachel and i remember on air talking about why would you vote for this thing? it's not going to pass and ...

I'd like to know how you could have voted to raise my medicare cost to $6,000. how are you wife and i supposed to afford that? >> you can tell when an attack ad draws blood by the level of defensiveness. on a scale of 1 to 10, i'd say this was about a 10. >> as barack obama's kentucky candidate, alison grimes repeats the same falsehoods obama does, but news media call the grimes/obama medicare attack laughable, using shaky claims to mischaracterize mitch mcconnell's record. >> okay. on the facts, the mcconnell campaign is right here. that $6,000 estimate was revised down and the guy in the ad ...

Here we have a woman who has lived experience and a clear voice and capacity to talk about it. are these the kinds of things that will penetrate for your colleagues in terms of making policy when it comes to poverty in this country? >> let's hope so, melissa. this is a first step. we have to remember a couple of things, however, in doing this. first of all, the right wing tea party republican party really wants to dismantle government. they do not want to see any safety net. they would rather dismantle social security, medicare. they want to dismajtsz by looking at ryan budget, 60% of the safe...

Mitch mcconnell. as the republican leader in the senate, mcconnell was a top cheerleader for paul ryan's extreme budget that gutted the safety net and ended medicare as we know it. >> congressman ryan's plan would put us on a path to the national debt. >> i voted for the ryan budget this week. >> he voted for it. he applauded it. he loved it. but now it's a different story. his democratic opponent is running ads slamming him for it and his campaign is not taking it well. they released a statement saying, "there is no way to speculate if mcconnell would have voted for final passage without havi...

That the tratic strategy, and i'm quoting directly from the article, to the extent that there's been a unifying theme, it's the ongoing effort to portray republican hopefuls as captured by their party's right flank. it's pushed candidates into nearly the same position on far right issues. >> cotton is someone who came into the house during the tea party wave around 2010 and as as much, someone who's a rising republican star, he's pretty much voted with the conservative side all the way through. so now when it skoms to an election like the senate election, the general election, he doesn't have ...