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>> of course not. >> they love to slam identity politics. there is no party a obsessed with cultural signifiers and also that is more obsessed with token figure heads. as much as they hate affirmative action, this is a party that's on the hunt for any plausible face that they can put on -- they can put on themselves that's not a grouchy old white man. >> yeah. richard. >> these aren't individual identity politics. these are universal values. civil rights here. maybe the other side think this is a stand for freedoms and opportunity and they have a different frame on universal values. in politic...

This way. >> let's shift gears and review the latest from congresswoman michele bachmann. >> the american people, especially vulnerable women, vulnerable children, vulnerable senior citizens now get to pay more and they get less. that's why we're here. we're saying let's repeal this failure before it early lil kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens. let's not do that. let's love people. let's care about people. let's repeal it now while we can. >> kill and love. wow. richard, this is the latest salvo on a dead issue, so to speak. other than base politics, what is congresswoman bach...

For it in the end, they did agree to it and did vote for it. blame can be passed off to both sides on this issue, certainly, republicans doing their level best to try to put the blame on the president's lap. whether it succeeds, look, two, 2 1/2 weeks to go until the deadline. we'll see if they can gin up enough interest and blame. we're back to pointing fingers on who is to blame all of this. >> you think the democrats are convinced they have the best political leverage now. the national conversations are switching their way? >> they do they generally feel pretty upbeat when it comes to look ...

See. >> okay. let's shift gears here. you are one of eight senators to vote against the fiscal cliff deal. now we are preparing for the debt ceiling. do you expect the same contentiousness and loggerheads? >> i think it will be contentious. it should be. we continue to borrow and spend. we don't cut. we are headed down the road to financial destruction, as everybody knows. we do need to pay our debts, but we don't need to keep incurring that debt. that's the argument we should make. we have to come to financial sanity and we are not there yet. i believe at theep of the day, if the president wi...

Prescriptions are written for gsk products in this country. think about that. that speaks to the money but to the extent of the possible fraud, people getting stuff that potentially dangerous -- >> and children. children. >> the video is like a bad movie. out of wall street. greed is good. >> it does. >> oh, man. all right. let's shift gears now. the family of joe paterno is demanding the release of records from the penn state sex abuse scandal. a lawyer for the late coach's family says they want investigators to make public all e-mails and documents. this all comes after some leaked e-mails...