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Barbara boxer's comments, it seems to come away from the left and they get away with it. >> because the substance of the right may be couched with political correct language, the real question is what happens when a political party implodes and holds the rest of us hostage. >> the republican party -- >> the democrats are completely unable to sustain themselves, you just saw this in the conversation you had with adam, kind of an ironic name. >> adam smith was talking about this brinksmanship -- >> and hold on -- the sequestration -- remember the sequester disaster thatg to hap? what happened, t...

Handling the crisis and more than 75% of all independents disagree with the gop's budget strategy. >> look, this is the divide we keep talking about. this is the divide over the tactic of shutting down the government. i want to pick up on something that matt said. i do believe the tea party is trying to create a revolution. i also believe the tea party wants to find out where the third rail is. it used to be we can't shut down the government, it used to be we can't go into the sequester. those things have passed and they are emboldened by that. >> part of the reason why is the president overso...

Drawn a loin on this one, and one of the big so-called concessions that democrats have been making almost throughout the whole process is that they would agree to fund the government at lease temporarily along republican preferred levels. what republican preferred levels is coat for, actually, is the budget control act, which is the law. based on the sequester, the president's idea and he signed it. so it wasn't really much of a concession all along. those levels will stay in place, but there will be this conference committee that this deal sets up between the house and senate, on the budget, ...

Able to make it before thursday and the deadline. >> the second question, i have no idea. this much i do know. i said before the democrats had moved the goal posts by breaking the sequester. that's not just moving the goal post. that's a pi son pill. if you want to bring republicans together, tell them they have to break the sequester. the sequester is what democrats care most about. it's not obama care. it's getting the spending rolling again. republican also never agree to that. >> let me just, again, this all gets a little technical. the sequester was part of the budget control act, part of...

The sequester, is the thing, bill, over time will get us to the table to do the right things we need to do with mandatory spending. the last thing we need to do is give up that terrain. i think senate democratic leaders have realized there is no way that senate republicans will agree to that and i think they are now backed into a place that may lead us to a conclusion to this in the senate anyway. then what happens in the house, bill, is anybody's guess. bill: rand paul, you may have just heard his comment there. he is suggesting that the president is scaring people. what do you think about th...