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Economy. .6% of the overall economy and hits toward defense workers, tsa as chris just mentioned, you know, as an effect, it's hard to get as agitated as you do about the debt ceiling and the federal government stops funding itself, that's a major part of the -- >> you say agitated v. you seen an angry person in a tsa line? it is not a pretty look. >> i'll be joined tweets to local representative. i think the reason why it's not having the affect that the debt ceiling had, that the two years ago, the whole august of 2011 had, is that people, one, have stopped believing the rhetoric of governme...

Stand their ground on. >> chris, karl rove superpac has an ad out of bom's mess. let me play it and get your reaction to this. >> a bad idea. are you willing to see a bunch of first responders lose their job. teachers laid off. air traffic controllers and airport security. this is hardship on a lot of people. scene zone yours. middle class families. scramble to find -- >> is this ad effective? you can take out the cut-out of the president and put in speaker boehner. he said he would like not to have the sequester come down. >> after that ad, i know why the group was so effective in the last el...

>> tamron, as you just saw, president obama took to the bully pulpit on the sequester to argue there should be a type of solution for congress to be able to avert these looming spending cuts. and i would assume that you're going to see this going forward. this seems to be the white house's game plan to put a human face to some of the toll that these cuts will end up taking. and stewart rotherberg, the political analyst, said that this is one of the reasons why president obama seems to have at least the rhetorical upper hand with a human face on this while congressional republicans haven't. >> ...

Republicans want to be able to fight president obama on something. and we might not see a resolution of these sequester cuts until after they've gone in to effect and to see where the political gauge is from there and then an overall political campaign. the republicans have been making these arguments as president obama's used the bully pulpit and that he was responsible, in fact, solely responsible for the sequester. >> rand paul, did he release i guess his own proposal a short time ago? >> he did. and a lot of it has to do with total slashing the federal workforce, lowering, freezing federal...

Both democrats and republicans is that republicans need the sequester to go through to show -- in order to prove the base that it is fighting obama. is that what you're hearing, as well? this is all about showing once again they're willing to fight obama? >> that's a component of it. i think zachary's exactly right. you also didn't see the markets freak out over the fiscal cliff because we've sort of stopped believing the crying wolf of washington politicians and a sense of what -- if you look at the fiscal cliff eastbound if there were some deal being worked out which there isn't that boehner...