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Including the planned parenthood issue. really a sickening display on the one hand trying to say, you've got to support this to vote for the troops, and at the same time, putting on the social agenda, which just demonstrated once again that the main goal they've got is not to reduce the deficit, but use this as a vehicle to impose their social agenda on the country. >> what you're talking about, though, in terms of the social agenda being looped into the shutdown issue, it -- there remains the issue of democratic strategy. on the republican side, their base will reward them for taking the most...

Including the abortion issue, including the planned parenthood issue. really a sickening display on the one hand trying to say, you've got to support this to vote for the troops, and at the same time, putting on the social agenda, which just demonstrated once again that the main goal they've got is not to reduce the deficit, but use this as a vehicle to impose their social agenda on the country. >> what you're talking about, though, in terms of the social agenda being looped into the shuttudo shut shutdown issue, it -- there remains the issue of democratic strategy. on the republican side, the...

Including the abortion issue, including the planned parenthood issue. really a sickening display on the one hand trying to say, you've got to support this to vote for the troops, and at the same time, putting on the social agenda, which just demonstrated once again that the main goal they've got is not to reduce the deficit, but use this as a vehicle to impose their social agenda on the country. >> what you're talking about, though, in terms of the social agenda being looped into the shutdown shut shutdown issue, it -- there remains the issue of democratic strategy. on the republican side, the...

Introduced but he didn't tackle the tax side of this. come get rid of the shutdown issue. >> by the way, one final thought on the shutdown issue, in my mind there's all of those republicans who have lived through the newt gingrich, bill clinton eyeball to eyeball government shutdown in '95, '96. those republicans like boehner lived through that because they are afraid that they will be blamed again. the newcomers, the new tea party activists didn't live through that experience. they are not as worried about being blamed as some of the old-time republicans, mainstream republicans are on an unre...

Insisting on a daca fix but that ship has sailed. now democrats have decided that they are going -- they're not going to back down on this shutdown issue until they figure out a way to get to secure a vote on an a broader immigration plan involving the d.r.e.a.m.ers. it's really difficult for them to accept a handshake or an informal agreement and oh, yeah we'll have a vote when this is their point of maximum leverage. moderate republicans who are working on this as well have to be able to secure a definite enough commitment from the majority leader that they don't have to trust this president...