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Compromise, and it will apply to the republicans if they reject whatever, assuming obama or harry reid offers some proposal, if they reject it. >> all right. >> it applies to everybody. >> let's be clear. this is a -- from my opinion, this is a republican manufactured crisis. and i think the president rightfully has said, we're not going to negotiate onset ld l s law. that's not a game we're going to play in this country. lee, i want to take it to you. one of the things we heard today and sort of a talking point was this question about sequester levels. and we know that there is about 967 bill...

Can't be extorted in the future. he has to draw a tough line. talk about overplaying your hand, the poker analogy. the sequester levels would be baked in. now not only are they not going to get any serious extractions from obama care, but they might lose sequester cuts as well. >> maybe you can clarify, yesterday morning we were talking about maybe democrats would be willing to go along with this. i think a two-year delay in the medical device tax with obama care. is harry reid saying that's not part of the deal for him? >> that's still something on the table. some sort of alteration to the me...

Say, wait a minute, we want the government to do these things. we want it to go out and patrol, you know, food-borne illness. it makes the government look good and people trying to stop the government look bad. >> that's in the poll numbers, as well, when we look at who is blamed by the american people here, we have a clear sort of preponderance of people blaming republicans rather than blaming president obama. 53% of folks saying the shutdown is really the republicans' fault, but in the end, is it possible that they -- what we're fighting over here is to get back to sequester levels, to raise...

>> paul, with all due respect you act like harry reid bent over backwards to compromise. >> yes. >> when basically what he's agreeing to is common sense. >> current law. >> we racked up $6.1 trillion of debt under president obama -- >> but you say it's common sense but not what the democrats wanted, correct? >> it's hard for the democrats to do -- >> paul -- >> [ overlapping speakers ] >> the sequester levels in spending were already current law, paul. he simply agreed to current law. he didn't agree to cuts that weren't already in the law. >> we got -- >> it's the sad day when they are willin...

All of the time. one of the first things he said. there will be absolutely no negotiating over raising the debt ceiling. no negotiating. and these people did not believe him. they did not believe him though he had been rock solid in the statement from the very beginning. alug absolutely -- no wiggle room. i think boehner worked on ape deem with reid where they were going to do a clean cr, at sequester levels. a lot for democrats to swallow. boehner had no control of his caucus to be able to deliver on that. so that's where we are. >> joy, i think there is something here in, in their complete m...