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Putting all of us in danger by their inflexibility on the spending issue. republican senator tom coal berne indicates the senators could save almost 300 billion bucks a year simply by cutting out waste in duplicate programs. let's get very specific for you doubters out there. very specific. please consider these facts. am i being nice? the national institutes of health recently awarded $1.5 million to a boston hospital. to study why many lesbians are overweight and most gay men are not. the feds calling this a silg can't -- significant public health issue. are you kidding me? why am i paying f...

Highest amount of income tax revenue in history. and, yet, mr. obama wants more, more money flowing to washington and no spending cuts. again, colmes and his crew continue to defend that. and, yet, there is another problem. because the right wing has demonized barack obama so much, many independent americans are tuning out. they are numb to criticism about the president. there is birth certificate and muslim stuff has actually helped barack obama. because now when there is a legitimate criticism, that he is mismanaging the u.s. economy big time, many people don't even pay attention. they don't...

Reid's desk. so there were solutions at that were being offered, but to continue to talk about more tax revenue and more increases, as far as taxation, the cbo has already said we're going to have 2 point trillion dollars of revenue this year and that's a pretty high extent-- bit of revenue coming in, but we're still going to run 800 to 900 billion dollar deficit because of the spending issue. >> sean: and the congressman, name is drucken miller. and he makes a point when he talks about the 200 million dollars in the unfunded liabilities coming up. and republicans say, paul ryan's going to com...

Going to happen and there is also a much greater partisan divide over the tax versus spending issue. those things combined i think make it more likely the sequester will be a real thing on march 1st. >> meanwhile you think we'll avert the full on freakout mode however crossroads gps is out today trying to pin the blame squarely on the president. take a look. >> these cuts here in washington known as sequestration are a bad idea. you want to see a bunch of first responders lose their jobs, teachers laid off, air traffic controllers, and airport security, hardship on a whole lot of people. >> th...

He looks forward to working with congress to get the rest of the job done. as president, he signed in to law, $2.5 trillion already in deficit reduction. 70% of that has come in spending cuts. 3% 0% in revenue. that is balance and we need to continue it. >> bret: there are lot of folks who question the $2.5 trillion and how it adds up. speaker boehner said i don't like the sequester, i don't want the sequester, but the spending issue is the biggest issue to threaten our future. when will we get serious about the long-term spending problem and when will the president propose something instead o...