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And so far they are not doing anything. i should listen to what president clinton said. don't misread the election in new york as a reason not to do anything on medicare. that would be negligent. the other thing democrats need to keep in mind is you had a third party tea party candidate, democrat himself but he ran under a tea party who spent $3 million of his own money and siphoned off 9% of the conservative vote which would have tipped the election in the other direction. i don't don't believe the new york race was on the ryan proposal. >> that is still pretty good. let me ask you about the ...

>> medicare is arguably the most important and most beloved federal program we have. tea party rally, you go to the tea party rally, huge percentage of tea party ralliers on medicare, all sorts of things. you have scott brown, politics of medicare, a pretty good example of what's happening this year happened yesterday in buffalo. scott brown announces three weeks ago he sort of likes the ryan proposal, thinks he might be inclined to vote for it. goes home a lot, gets home, changes his mind, he's now going to vote against the ryan proposal. happening throughout the country. >> internally, you h...

Republicans don't really trust him because he has flip flopped on abortion and some other questions and he used up all of his flip flop vouchers so he couldn't flip flop on the health care ban faith date in massachusetts. i think these republicans are like that line about vauger in's music, it is better than it sounds. and i think these guys are probably better than they look. but the republicans have set up this sort of commission on orthodox and if you hold any position that violates where the party, where conservatives want the party to be you have to change it. so pawlenty used to believe ...

This sort of commission on orthodox and if you hold any position that violates where the party, where conservatives want the party to be you have to change it. so pawlenty used to believe in doing something about global warming. before he didn't. romney has his change. newt gingrich said on medicare, this ryan proposal was a bad idea. his problem is he took the position prematurely because after tonight and that district 26th district race i think a lot of republicans will say newt was right after all but he couldn't say it at the time. they are making the wrong guys look worse. ç >> to the ...

What was it? >> well, what it was, is kathy hochul, gifted public ser venlt, incredible person with a passion to go to congress to represent working families. the ryan budget played right into her hands in that they tried to pass a budget in the middle of this campaign that took health care away from senior citizens. kathy hochul jumped on that immediately, attacked it. her opponent embraced the ryan proposal. hochul chastised her, criticized her and said she would never do that and tonight she is going to congress. >> now corwin the republican tried to distance herself from the ryan budget do...