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Budget, i think we probably need more resources and i have advocated for that in the last several years. second point, though, i think it is fair to say that management of v.a. has not been as strong as it should be. i think there are areas where the v.a. should have been much quicker to pick up on the problems and allocate resources. >> let me interject there for a second, because you are already seeing on the right in the conservative media, basically, a whole -- dozens of pieces today, this shows government-run health care can't work, this is the bankruptcy of liberalism. and, obviously, th...

Up their minds about and don't like it, you're wasting your time in the arena. second point, which is even more important for the mid-term elections, the people who favor obamacare, which is a minority, aren't really that enthusiastic about it even if they favor it. but the majority who oppose obamacare are much more charged up, and they're the people who tend to turn up in a low turnout mid-term election. >> i also think by pitching it, everyone is for coverage or preexisting conditions and removing lifetime caps and keeping your kids on a policy, if you like your kid. it leaves out the possi...

Lot of pain on the european allies. >> they could. and one reason why, second point, we have to make sure that the energy sources in europe are diversified. that we help the europeans become less dependent upon russia. >> that's a long-term --. it's long-term, but starting now, sending the signal now. in addition to the economic kind of actions that could be taken, they won't solve the problem initially. but sending the message to russia and to the rest of the world, there are penalties associated with this. and, by the way, then trying to beef up some of the military capabilities of all of th...

And 60s, when the civil rights movement, similarly heard this argument that it wasn't local people, it wasn't the people of birmingham, it wasn't the people of you know of montgomery who were agitating but outside agitators, union people sometimes, who were coming in and telling them what their interests were. and i mean i got to say, it seems hard to imagine that workers don't notice that wages at this level create for them a circumstance where they then have to rely on benefits. so why would it take an outside agitator to explain this? >> two things here. first off in terms of who participat...

You know what the media does for a living. they will go out after the people and find the stories and it's not hard to find when it's 5% of the american population that's going to have some problems. it's still a small part of the big problem. >> the lady with stage four cancer that's been kicked off the plans. >> first you're a cancer victim who your rooting for the guy helping you or the other party that never tried. democrats are arguing or efficiency. they are not the most efficient crowd in the world. they are trying to get people health insurance. >> chris, that's great but why let your ...