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They've lost all credibility. >> december 12th, the house passes the bill. but 62 republicans vote no, including tea party conservative paul brown. >> does this budget agreement roll back what republicans say they accomplished with the sequester? >> absolutely. there's no question. we've got to stop spending. and we've got to do it today. because that's the only way to stop this federal government that's out of control. >> months ago, few predicted that the gop would agree to ease the sequester. but that was before an ill-fated tea party power play that began in earnest last summer. >> thank y...

Listen, if you made the case to the american people that obamacare wasn't working. i think the political pressure on the president would have been considerable. now, would he have somehow needed some sort of face saving retreat about, well, this is not repealing it, it's a delay until we get our act together? sure. but i think that could potentially have been achievable. if we had been united. >> in fact, a fox news poll taken at the time found a sizable minority of americans actually did want to defund the law, and a majority liked the idea of delaying it. that's what the house tried next. pa...

Another shutdown scenario next year. we'll concede the one victory they have had since the obama era began. >> shouldn't they be having ptsd? shouldn't they be worried? >> well, they should be a little worried. look, the government shutdown was a disaster. the reason for that is we had no chance whatsoever of defunding obamacare. the lesson isn't that republicans shouldn't fight. it's that we shouldn't fight stupid. we shouldn't pick fights we can't win. we can win the fight for the budget control act. in obamacare what we were trying to do, republicans were trying to do, is get the democrats ...

Republican party where the automatic reflex of being pro-defense has been at least overlaid with an equally important impulse towards smaller government. >> it would take months for that x-ray image to fully develop. >> i think both parties have a say that this would be a negative event for the economy. >> remember maryland congressman john delaney? on february 12, he headed to his first state of the union address. >> i don't think a sequester is going to happen. >> defense cuts were supposed to be a poison pill for republicans. they were never going to swallow it based on the past. >> the pre...

Tough decision, and i voted against the bill tonight. you know, while it eases -- i actually think "the new york times" described it the best this morning as a minimalist budget deal. and while it does ease the across-the-board indiscriminate cuts, the sequester, in fact, we have seen an unbelievable erosion of the priority of this nation in education and health care, child. head start, biomedical research. they suffered such a blow over the last decade that there is no ability, in fact, to increase any of these efforts over the next several years. and my view is that the sequester cuts ought ...