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Makek, origami photo album and introduction to lock picking. the mayor received a lot of angry e-mails about the last class, considering burglaries are up 40% this year in oakland. the mayor has apologized for promoting that last class. in her newsletter, we checked, tomorrow's locked picking class is sold out. finally, president obama's hybrid "star wars"/"star trek" question about why he can't work out sequester deal with congress has take on a life of its own on twitter. >> the fact they don't take it, means that i should somehow, you know, do a jedi mind meld with these folks and convinc...

To compromise? >> i think one of the things people need to keep in mind is even though we look like we're deadlocked right now, maybe the democratic strategy with regard to republicans is looking at the 2014 mid-term elections. it's a high number of republicans that want the status quo, but the vast majority of the american public does not want this. and i think that if the sequester deal, if it actually happens, when you start seeing these stories across the country about the impact on real people's lives, it's going to hurt republicans and in 2014 that's a huge problem for the republican par...

There. >> yeah, i think the president has taken some flak for that, and there were a lot of reforms in medicare. >> basically, the republicans -- the white house gives them cpi, and the republicans give them the oil and gas tax things, and there's your sequester deal. >> one of the things we've seen is it seems both sides are unhappy or happy, and the other side says we want this too. we've seen that in deal after deal after deal when it comes to the debt ceiling. so i think there's a pressing your luck. >> the larger issue is nobody knows how to sell compromise as victory. everybody seems to ...

Demanding lawmakers include more revenue in any sequester deal on top of the tax increases he won in the fiscal cliff passage. it is this same obama who is making gun reform a top priority in the face of historic opposition. and it is the same obama who has promised to move forward with his own immigration bill if the is that the doesn't bring him one by march. to get it done, the president has developed a strategy. according to politico, quote, president obama's speeches have a familiar ring these days. tout what he's already done, say the public's in his corner, demand congress do something,...

Out of respect for the anniversary, there's no ban on campaigning today. there's no rule about what you can and cannot do. mitt romney gave a speech today before the national guard association in reno, nevada, and at times it sounded like his normal stump speech. he did go out of his way to attack president obama for defense cuts that are part of the sequester deal. which incidentally, are cuts that paul ryan voted for in congress. that's the kind of thing he's been stay save saying on the stump. after a week and a half of bipartisan blistering criticism of mr. romney for leaving discussion of...