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Do. they're big things that affect large parts of the population, right? >> they happen to also be the only things that matter as long as long-term debt relief. >> this is where the logic of the grand bargain always made in the abstract always made the most sense because republicans, you know, could -- it was all going to be unpopular. so let's take hard votes that cost your side on taxes, that cost our side on entitlements. we can all get together and hold hands and go off this cliff together. republicans now think they have more leverage on the spending stuff. but if they really want to be s...

Polling well. and that new poll, the new gallop poll that shows they are if the new positive territory. >> bill: here is the poll. 47% of americans now think the republican party is good. that's up from 34% in november of 2008 when obama won. so that's up 13. >> when the republican party, bill, had come out of a number of years of kind of compassionate conservatism where we were doing big things and we had medicare advancement and prescription drugs and we had all this funding of education, which apparently didn't get us very far. so after all that big spending stuff, what did the republican p...

Polling well. and that new poll, the new gallop poll that shows they are if the new positive territory. >> bill: here is the poll. 47% of americans now think the republican party is good. that's up from 34% in november of 2008 when obama won. so that's up 13. >> when the republican party, bill, had come out of a number of years of kind of compassionate conservatism where we were doing big things and we had medicare advancement and prescription drugs and we had all this funding of education, which apparently didn't get us very far. so after all that big spending stuff, what did the republican p...

Polling well. and that new poll, the new gallop poll that shows they are if the new positive territory. >> bill: here is the poll. 47% of americans now think the republican party is good. that's up from 34% in november of 2008 when obama won. so that's up 13. >> when the republican party, bill, had come out of a number of years of kind of compassionate conservatism where we were doing big things and we had medicare advancement and prescription drugs and we had all this funding of education, which apparently didn't get us very far. so after all that big spending stuff, what did the republican p...

>> bill: mind over matter. okay. now, the republican party as we have been discussing, you know, is basically coming in very, very aggressive. i understand. i think that's a good strategy. they have to stake their turn out very, very quickly for the american public is very impatient with what's been going on. i do believe that the spending stuff far overrides the individual stuff like obama care. am i wrong? >> well, i think they are hand in hand. i think the american people believe that the reason we are in economic constraints in economic straits and difficulty is the actions of the obama ad...