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Environmental and energy issues in congress. the most recent ppp poll shows mr. lynch trailing markey by 14 points. not helping mr. lynch, he cancelled all events the day before the primary due to unspecified illness. on the other side, three republican names are on the ticket. gabriel gomez, former navy s.e.a.l., and state represent winslow. he is widely viewed as being out of his depth and opposite of impressive in debates on the republican side. on that republican side, though, polling offers little guidance. the "the new york times" says it is a three way competition with relatively little...

On it because what they said is they will not put the pain of the sequester on the politically powerful. they'll undo it for the politically powerful. and if that's going to be their position going forward if they don't reverse it the next time this comes up aggressively, this will be with us forever. but it's going to become even more unbalanced than it is now because we're going to take away things that politically hurt in congress and more cuts to the people who can't have a voice or don't have a loud voice in washington. >> right. because people -- if the sort of haves won't sustain the pa...

That sounds nicer, right? spending sounds like an awful thing, we ought to get rid of that. but government doing stuff. some of the stuff that government does, we like. it's probably the reason that we do it. and some of the stuff that government does, which has now been cut turns out is even the kind of stuff that congress notices. it's the stuff that congress likes, stuff congress wants to protect because it's stuff that affects them. and so last week, we saw congress move with heretofore unseen lightning speed to protect one of the things that government does from these across the board cut...

President obama. republicans quickly go to the opposite side of the issue. only if years before they were on the same side that the obama administration now occupies. >> do you think that the way the current sequester and budget cutting debates are going to work out is that we will keep all of the cuts that hurt people that don't have political capital and the ones that bother members of congress themselves or people with political capital those ones will get fixed? >> that is what we've done so far. i think this is a really appalling period in washington, d.c. in the next month or two, everyb...

That was also the case of the '03 tax cuts, the idea that the stimulus is not something republicans do. it only dates back to the beginning of the obama administration. and the concern with deficits similarly was not in evidence in the bush years. i think a lot of what we've been seeing quite sadly is simply counter positioning vis a vis president obama. republicans quickly go to the opposite side of the issue. only if years before they were on the same side that the obama administration now occupies. >> do you think that the way the current sequester and budget cutting debates are going to wo...