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Of negotiation with the president to avoid a fiscal cliff. and the larger issue is that the national populous as a whole wants to see congress get stuff done. they want the accomplishments. so it works for republicans in some statewide races, mostly not but it's not a national agenda. >> allow me to reintroduce myself as a tea party spokesperson. what they say is they are a governing party. you said they're not. they say they are a governing party and they right now are causing the government to completely rewire the way that it deals with the deficit. and they say that there is pain in that p...

Over the cliff, republicans would risk have it being tagged as possibly the largest tax increase in american history hits the american public. i don't think they want that. tea party primaries can hit that. i wouldn't count the risk aversion. >> i'm glad you mentioned tea party primaries because that's a piece of this debate and something we want to get to. i want to thank you, mike viqueira for your reporting today. up next, we'll take a look at something politicos were looking at. to the explosive exit, we are going to ask is the tea party really -- we're going to take a look at the differ...

Is being taken up currently. so that argument doesn't stand. but there are cases you want to bring this to bear and say we are on the dream act and that is a significant issue facing america. you know what? we're going to stay on it for a week and let people air their views on the american people and the american people can weigh in on whether they're bums or heros or whether it's on the administration jobs act or the pay equity act or the disclose act. there are issues where you should have that debate dramatically and publicly before the american people call their attention to it. but it isn...

Themselves -- >> can you get the yes? >> i don't think the tea party has been quite as successful as we think they have been. if you look two years ago at the ratio obama was proposing spending cuts versus revenue. it was four to one. now it's one to one. >> you have that $1 trillion already passed. >> you do. but i think the credit the tea party gets for shifting that debate wag overblown. >> but it was deficit reduction versus short-term spending at the start of 2010. and it immediately moved to deficit reduction and how to do it. and that was a very fundamental, important shift in the conve...

The talking filibuster says if we have a vote on closing debate and 41 or more senators say we want to keep debating, then there actually has to be debate. no more of this, no, gist objected to unanimous consent and you have to get 60. no, if you vote for more debate, you have to keep at least one person on the floor debating. >> senator, debate would mean debate under your proposal. >> it would mean debate. and it does two things. it means a frivolous filibuster is much more likely because somebody doesn't want to spend the evening or the night talking on the floor. the second thing it does i...