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And i think that state will -- >> he had a very interesting history, politically, over the pasten ten yea ten years, back election of 2000 and his friends with lindsey graham and john mccain. how do you see it. >> conrad and lieberman's announcements removed two more centrist from an increasingly polarized congress and the blue dog democrats, most of them, lost their seats in the last election and i'm afraid the troubling political vibe is starting to make its way over to the senate where the american people increasingly want their leaders to governor from the center and unfortunately are elec...

To find out more. >> rich: it is being called a ticking tax bomb. tonight the prospect nat bush era tax cuts could soon expire no doubt on the minds of small business owners across america. the debate over extending the cuts is beginning to heat up in washington. the conventional wisdom that only republicans favor an extension was up-ended when senators conrad, nelson and evan bayh announce they oppose tax hikes during these tough economic times. we may have discovered what is behind the defection of those democrats. in a paper published last month by the president's top economist christina ro...

>> rich: it is being called a ticking tax bomb. tonight the prospect nat bush era tax cuts could soon expire no doubt on the minds of small business owners across america. the debate over extending the cuts is beginning to heat up in washington. the conventional wisdom that only republicans favor an extension was up-ended when senators conrad, nelson and evan bayh announce they oppose tax hikes during these tough economic times. we may have discovered what is behind the defection of those democrats. in a paper published last month by the president's top economist christina roamer concludes tha...

>> rich: it is being called a ticking tax bomb. tonight the prospect nat bush era tax cuts could soon expire no doubt on the minds of small business owners across america. the debate over extending the cuts is beginning to heat up in washington. the conventional wisdom that only republicans favor an extension was up-ended when senators conrad, nelson and evan bayh announce they oppose tax hikes during these tough economic times. we may have discovered what is behind the defection of those democrats. in a paper published last month by the president's top economist christina roamer concludes tha...

There is as much vigorous bipartisan agreement, at least in public, but unfortunately there's also a lot of partisan wrangling behind closed doors. this is what we know for sure. for us to solve this extraordinary problem that is so many years in the making, it's going to take the cooperation of both parties. it's not going to happen in any other way. i'm pleased that congress supported by request to restore the "pay as you go" rule, which was instrumental in turning deficits into surpluses in the 1990s. i've also called for a bipartisan fiscal commission. unfortunately this measure, which ori...