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Year. i think the republican leaders in the house may have outsmarted themselves. they tried to outaccommodate the tea party by putting on the table initially a very large number for their cuts, but the tea party people, of course, want more. president obama and the democrats seeing an opportunity here, thinking the republicans had gone too far are trying to politically get out ahead of them. also the president wants to say in advance look, if you're going to shut down the government on march 4th because we can't come to agreement over this year's budget, i'm going to warn you right now that w...

Is your fault the government gets shut down. >> you're reading this veto statement as the president will veto the plan as the republicans have described it so far. >> yes. >> if they actually try to pass what they have out there right now. because there's a certain amount of vagueness in this, but you can definitely read it that way. >> well, until a few minutes ago, the president was saying hey, you guys are being impatient, the budget game is a long-range game. this is going to take months, not years. then bang, as soon as you got to this year's budget, it got very nasty very fast. what's go...

In the house may have outsmarted themselves. they tried to outaccommodate the tea party by putting on the table initially a very large number for their cuts, but the tea party people, of course, want more. president obama and the democrats seeing an opportunity here, thinking the republicans had gone too far are trying to politically get out ahead of them. also the president wants to say in advance look, if you're going to shut down the government on march 4th because we can't come to agreement over this year's budget, i'm going to warn you right now that what you're proposing on the floor of ...