i'm a democrat democrat. i support the unions. this is really sad that you pass a bill and you don't read it. now we are finding out that the insurance for my friends and family and people i'm associated with, it's just not there. it's just not right and i've noticed that the younger people nowadays are less responsible than in my generation when i was younger. i was warning 53. therefore i'm saying that they are not going to do what you wanted to do. they are not going to sign up and it's going to cause chaos. >> host: danny i think we got the point. let's get a response from al from. >> guest: danny, that's exactly why we need the individual mandate. it's just like auto insurance. if you drive the cars in most states you have to have auto insurance. the reason we have the mandate that says everybody has to have insurance, health insurance and if you don't you face a fine and i'm not sure the details of when but fairly shortly. i think if you don't have health insurance by march 31, you have to pay a fine is doing courage the youn

coming out of those in 2008 was a decent election for democrats, a decent year for democrats. you sorted it out so there are not many fish out of water that are out there. it has been minimized, the elasticity in the house. it has made it difficult for the press to make a 17-seat gains as it would be difficult for republicans to make a 17-seat gain in this environment. and you look at the individual races one by one -- and we have a fabulous house editor david wasserman who does this, and all he does from one election date to the one two years later -- is right now more likely than not that republicans would actually pick up a handful of seats, 3, 4, 5, 6, a very small number, based on where there are open seats and where the competitive races are, and that is not based on any macro assumption whatsoever. then you get over to the senate side, and i do not want to poach into that, but democrats have a lot of exposure. the thing to remember about the senate always is that just as the house has two-year terms, the table is set in a house two years earlier. in the senate with six-

>>> and 50 years after democrats declared a war on poverty, republicans take aim at that big government battle plan. the democratic strategist james carville is here live. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >>> and there is breaking news right now. chris christie's 2016 hopes sundayenly be in serious jeopardy? the new jersey governor is scrambling to react this hour after stunning new indications that his close aides deliberately and gleefully plotted to snarl traffic in a new jersey town and made life miserable for ordinary citizens in a rather crude act of vengeance against the political opponent. in a written statement just released, the governor says this, and i'm quoting, "what i've seen today for the first time is unacceptable. i am outraged and deeply saddened to learn that not only was i misled by a member of my staff but this completely inappropriate and unsanctioned conduct was made without my knowledge. one thing is clear. this type of behavior is unacceptable and i will not tolerate it. people will be held responsible for their ac

institutions for its benefit but on the other hand how can you argue in a day in a democratic society that you should get rid of that power in a non democratic way because the way the morsi government was disposed off is a non democratic way this know that it was very democratic way revolutions revolutions are of them a graphic choice i mean the people who went to the street there were thirty million people on the street that's more than whomever elected mohamed morsi and you don't elect a president democratically to come and dismantle democracy you know so i think it's a sign that the egyptian people becoming a lot more politically aware of their choices and their implications but i mean in all honesty you can't really assess assess the number of people who are in favor or against it you know that the mohamed morsi also has a lot of supporters and now he's part of his ideology is banned by constitutional court which is hardly a democratic development this is not something that would happen in their tradition . only democratic country in democratic countries these those type o

institutions for its benefit but on the other hand how can you argue in a day in a democratic society that you should get rid of that power in a non democratic way because the way that morsi government was disposed of is a non democratic way this no it was very democratic way revolutions revolutions are of them a graphic choice i mean the people who went to the street there were thirty million people on the street that's more than whoever elected mohamed morsi and you don't elect a president democratically to come and dismantle democracy you know so i think it's a sign that the egyptian people. becoming a lot more politically aware of their choices and their implications but i mean in all honesty you can't really assess assess the number of people who are in favor or against it you know that the mohamed morsi also has a lot of supporters and now he's part of his ideology is banned by constitutional court which is hardly a democratic development this is not something that would happen in the traditionally democratic country in democratic countries these those type of things are

there's a lot of independents and a good number of democrat that is make that up. it's a -- i would welcome more tea party, more independents and a lot of democrats that want to grow republican ranks are always welcome. >> but shon dra says the republican party's current, i understand your delegates can change, but they have not shown interest in doing it any time soon. the republican party's current position is anti-marriage equality. the republican party's current position is anti-employment nondiscrimination in moving that legislation forward on issue after issue of equality. the republican party has been on the wrong side. we are moving in a direction as a nation. we are moving, history is moving us in a direction, and every time you are on the side throughout our nation's history, on the side of expand rights and giving rights to more people, you are on the winning side. when you are on the side of restricting rights for more people, you are on the losing side. >> so you congratulate my plea then. >> i think if more and more republicans are out there saying, le

for example, in maryland, my wife is a registered democrat. i am a registered independent. nnot vote in any primaries at all. she can only vote in democrat primaries. i think if you allowed independents to choose on election day, you take either a democratic or republican ballots on voting day, i think it would help bring things back toward the center as with redistricting reform. i do not think either of these are a silver bullet or will solve the problem, but could address things. i think some of the bad things that have happened, i think having nomination conventions for races below president is really bad. in utah, for example, you remember senator robert bennett, who was by any rational definition a very conservative incumbent senator and hard- working and very high really regarded, could not get on the primary ballot because of the rise of the tea party movement, and he had voted for tarp, and that was back in 2008, and he could not get on the primary ballot in 2010. he would have won a primary if he had gotten on the ballot. virginia has these goofy conventions where

a larger sense. we got the house and senate. in house, democrats woo need a 17 net gain to get majority in the house. 17 seats. in big scheme of thing, 17 is not particularly big number. you can look, there is a great, great book, norm ornstein, tom mann and michael maalvin, vital statistic on congress. terrific book. they have it up on the web. they don't publish it in hard copy anymore and up on the web and available for free. it is terrific. go through brookings or aei website but when you go back and look over time, trying to remember what, what my point was. as i say getting over a chest cold. i remember. 17 is not much. it really isn't but the thing about it is, but in the new world order it is kind of a lot. because there are very, very few competitive districts out there. you know i started as i mentioned earlier, my newsletter back in april of 1984. and it was not uncommon in those days to have, you know, 100, 125, 150 or more competitive districts. and now, it is sort of, you know, depending upon you determine, how you define it, actually

when there's a democratic president, more democrats tend to watch.by our panelists now. great to have you all. we have not heard from either of you tonight. >> you didn't miss much. >> paul, as john was pointing out, you were involved in a lot of lengthy speeches. >> i have to stand up for paul. there's a lot of things you can blame paul for, but not bill clinton's lack of brevity. >> what did you make of the speech tonight and the numbers? >> i thought it was great. even as analyst, the president has to resolve two hot internal debates between, first, those who wanted him to be more realistic and those who wanted him to be more optimistic. the president definitely sided with the optimists. for a country that 62% believes we're on the wrong track. and the second, are you more combative or more cooperative. >> he could have stuck his thumb in their eye many times. frankly, a hack like me would have advised him to do it. but it's better for the country -- >> it's like your twitter need. >> i actually think he did a lot of both. i think he balanced it o

there was a lot of sleaze in the democratic party. saw a backlash against president obama and obamacare, as we saw nationally, restoration over a lousy economy. >> also, that election was right citizens united supreme court decision, which opened the door to the outside money. the handiwork of the conservative majority on the supreme court enabled individuals and corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money, but is now called dark money. he provided a perfect landscape of how things would be after the supreme court ruling. he saw the opportunities and he had the cash, because of his family fortune. manpope is a very small that thinks about the world as an engineer. as if somebody had looked at the map in every district and figure it out what it would take to get republican control. so he, along with some of the people he was working with, targeted legislative races to pour money into. >> one of their vessels was a nc,p called real jobs bankrolled by pope. in 2010, it went on the attack. their high taxes and wasteful spending cost u

they see it the reason we couldn't say it is we have a democrat see christ states in the u.k. where millions of people who own. since you now call it six months ago. i think it's a step in that time we need to see start young and instill in a new generation of votes in the knife and hopefully not just the capital saying that it's a question more generally in our democracy so we think it's a fantastic so we think it should be twinned with education there's no point just giving people the vote without the summation education and that's not just about the mechanics of what you get how you construct ballot but it's about how you make decisions about the kind of policies that matter to you and how you're going to make a decision about policy this is cool so we think it's a fantastic move we think education starts to really. five six seven words is the key to making this work and we're encouraged that there is evidence now that suggests that if. you are more likely to develop the line is one of the one of the reasons that it has been suggested the the scottish government lower the vo

this is just part of the process that undergo when you switch from being a republican to a democrat. orter: with changes in his position on offshore drilling and the stimulus bill already on his list. in 2010, still a republican, crist ran for a u.s. senate seat but this photo was the nail in his republican coffin and he lost to tea party backed marco rubio in the gop primary. so he switched to independent and ran in the same race. >> i didn't leave the republican party. it left me. >> reporter: still, he lost the seat. then another switch in 2012. the big one. >> yeah, i'm running as a democrat and i am proud to do it. >> reporter: and announced his candidacy for governor again, running this time not only against republican governor rick scott, but his own political past. republicans have jumped on crist's apology this week as a quote, desperate effort of political opportunism. the question now for voters to decide -- >> whether he was just kind of playing a game or whether he was really undergoing a transformation. >> reporter: a spokesman for crist tells cnn this is a transformatio

bill bill says bipartisan is the first word of the title of the bill there doesn't appear to be a democrat as a spy as a co-sponsor in the house of representatives do i have that right that's right now no democrat in the house and we're trying to hold that line we're trying to hold it strong because they vast majority of the democratic caucus has said we are opposed . to this fast track gimmick and twenty seven republicans to sign the letter a separate letter saying that they were opposed so we're getting we're closing in on two hundred course we need to eighteen to beat it but you know it's a strong strong message they're going to put window dressing on oh no this changes the process they'll have to consult with congress they'll have to do this after that no that is all non-binding and this deal is already done so you know even if that were binding for future trade agreements it wouldn't apply to this one and this is the biggest one out there yeah i mean that's what they did with nafta they said oh you know we don't you don't like the labor agreements years of but they were non-binding an

my example, in maryland, wife is a registered democrat. i am a registered independent. i cannot vote in any primaries at all. she can only vote in democrat primaries. allowedif you independents to choose on election day, you take either a democratic or republican dallas on voting day, i think it would help bring things back toward the center as with redistricting reform. i do not think either of these are a silver bullet or will solve the problem, but could address things. i think some of the bad things that have happened, i think having nomination conventions for races below president is really bad. in utah, for example, you bennett senator robert who was by any rational definition a very conservative incumbent senator and hard- working and very high really regarded could not get on the theary ballot because of rise of the tea party movement, and he had voted for tarp, and that was back in 2008, and he could not at on the primary ballot in 2000 10. the polling eisele, he would have won a primary if he had gotten on the ballot. regina has these goofy -- virginia has thes

joining me now is steve sweeney, a democrat. tor, what grade would you give senator christie on sandy recovery? >> well, obviously it's not a passing grade right now, because there's too many people that are struggling to get their lives back in order. everyone looked at this storm as an unbelievable devastation that hit the state, and we knew it would take time, but a year and a half in, you have 8,000 people on a waiting list. they don't know if they're number one or number 8,000. this is not right, nor is it fair. >> you've introduced or pledged to introduce legislation that would be a sandy bill of rights essentially. what would be in there and why are you doing it? >> basically it's about transparency. knowing where you are on the waiting list. if you got rejected, why? ensuring that the communications are in multiple languages. and we're doing it for one reason. there's too many people waiting too long to get answers. again, a year and a half. we knew this wasn't going to be quick, but now, year and a half later, people can

democrats. yanks the judgeship of a supreme court justice and calls the senate democrats animals. it's not just a justice he admires and a republican on the state supreme court. it is the wife of one of his key staffers. he is outraged at senate democrats. late in the day, august 12th. and it is the next morning at 7:34 in the morning on august 13th that his deputy chief of staff gives the go-ahead to the port authority. "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee." go to the list of legislative districts for the state of new jersey. find ft. lee. ft. lee, new jersey, legislative district 37. who represents district 37? they have two members of the state assembly. and the leader of the senate democrats. leader of the senate democrats represents ft. lee. roughly 12 hours after governor christie blows up at the senate democrats and torpedos the career of a supreme court justice who he likes because he says the senate democrats are animals and not going to let the justice loose to those animals. the leader of those animals in the senate sees her district, sees her district get the orde

i think he's aspiring to be a democratic reagan i think he's someone who has had a number of bold policies particularly with obamacare he's inherited a great recession he's had to face two wars that he inherited so i think that is probably the president that he wishes to be and he mentioned this in his initial campaign in two thousand and eight really got under the skin of the clintons when he made that comparison to ronald reagan it's very interesting doug it seems like any president now that wants to be successful has to be one variant of ronald reagan in one way or another because we saw the clintons you know bill clinton tried very much the same thing even george w. bush did and least imagery in language maybe not necessarily in policy but perception and in politics perception is about ninety nine percent of the job that's true and particularly they like to copy reagan's lack of guile he just wouldn't answer back he wouldn't fight back and he insisted on remaining good natured and and you see obama doing that perfectly he keeps he keeps his temper under control i am a little irritated

health care law, 56% say it's a bad idea, democrat districts, 52%. that's not surprising. ey do agree. they have a negative view of the republican party. does that give the democrats an opening? right now the midterm conventional wisdom says republicans have the advantage, but even in republican districts republican brand is negative. is that enough to help the democrats? >> and that's the contrast, i believe, if there was a political part to last night's speech, the president was trying to make between a president who wants to agree on consensus items, we've talked about why isn't it getting done, it's the republican congress. and look, i think in a -- as a democrat and as american, a democrat second, you like the numbers with the republicans being so low, but i think again it's part of the overall malaise americans are feeling about the political system in general. >> they don't like anybody -- >> ultimately in the big picture, that just can't be great. >> mike, a lot of republicans, including your boss, doesn't matter, we know congress is unpopular, doesn't matter, presi

is that only if you are a democrat or if you have a compelling personality? >> much of your ability to survive a scandal is about who is speaking for you and who is not speaking for you. in chris christie's case when you have republicans like lindsey graham with a tight primary saying don't come to my state of south carolina that is a problem. when you have the manchester union leader in an early primary state saying we are taking this seriously because our voters don't like abuses of power then you have other people in chris christie's camp saying i'm a little worried about you, guy. >> i think that is a fair point. would you concede if democrats in 2014 tell the president please don't come to our state would you say that is also a problem for democrats? >> i think democrats telling barack obama to stay away is a problem for barack obama getting things through congress but that the is not the issue here. the issue is whether the problems from chris christie will go to other republicans. i think that is possible. the one i would close on one final point of ad

i think that it's lacking overall, whether you are a democrat or a republican.at and i can say that this is more screwed up than anything else. if it was my bill, i would've made sure that it rolled out in a better way and i don't figure thing there is enough blame to go around. but i think we should be surprised that some are not wanted to take the blame. neil: here's what bothers me. if we continue to feed the myth, all i remember is that when this was being debated democrats had a full run of the house and they control the presidency and the senate and the house. they got it through and it was a monumental achievement and problems crop up saying that it's everyone's fault but their own comment strikes me as disingenuous remark yes, they not only had a huge majority in the house but a super majority and in the senate. sixty votes in the senate. so they didn't even get one to join him which was a big mistake. >> he is not out of the woods yet. i know where you're coming from. you think it's too late now for democrats to say we botched this and it's too late for

he's a democratic pollster and strategist. jeff is a partner and ashley recognize bowling for but they do polling on political candidates and very selected officials including senate members, mbs of cars, governors and dozens of other statewide official. jeff is a veteran campaign operative whose experience include working with the dccc and the docc of the democratic governors association. in 2008, jeff was part of the campaign team that helped elect president obama. please join me in welcoming jeff. [applause] >> and with that i will turn it over to you, chris. >> thank you. thank you all for coming. i know in virginia this but it was a little bit icy so i appreciate you all making it. i'm going to talk very briefly, let these guys to all of it of the spiel and then i'll ask them a few questions and i think we'll probably most interested, i most interested if you guys have questions. we will do that. i just is going through some numbers last night knowing i was going to do this. and it is remarkable the number of-but we would

i was e-mailing with a house democrat tonight on the way here about the speech. they don't want to talk about health care at all. they want to focus on two angles this year. a populist economic message that we heard to the tune of the president talking about minimum wage. also what you can sort of call affinity politics. women, hispanics, african-americans, focusing on issues that will sort of drive that democratic base. the combination of those two things, populism, affinity politics. if democrats are going to sort of hold tight this year or even make some gains it's going to be because of that. >> one of the biggest applause last night from democrats was about equal pay. >> absolutely. >> also on twitter, twitter is not representative of the american public but the "mad men" line was the number one most tweeted about. >> very clever line in the speech. >> the issue is the gender piece. huge. >> this idea of him not really approaching health care, he needed to have a moment where he could defend it without sounding defensive. you 93, the last couple of months, it

but, for example, in maryland my wife is a registered democrat, i'm a registered independent. so i can't vote this any primaries at all. she can only vote in democrat primaries. you know, if the next door neighbor's republican, he or she can only vote in a republican primary. i think if you allowed independents to choose on election day either a democratic ballot or republican ballot on primary day and vote in each one, i think it would help sort of bring things back towards the center as would redistricting reform. i don't think either of these things are a silver bullet. i don't think either one will solve the problem, but could address things. i think some of the bad things that have happened, i think having nomination conventions for races below president, i think, is really, really bad. i mean, in utah, for example, you know, you remember senator robert bennett who was by any rational definition a very conservative incumbent senator and hard working and very highly regarded who couldn't even get on the primary ballot because of the rise of the tea party movement, and he ha

also at the table new jersey state senator, a democrat who believes the u.s. attorney's office should be looking into all of this. we'll ask him about that. and a national perspective from a staff writer at the "daily beast." thank you all for joining us. heather, i'll start with you just reporting on this. a the lot of the commentary i heard this week in the wake of that press conference that chris christie gave was this is a guy who would never have made the emphatic statements he made if he wasn't sure that there's nothing out there that could link him to this. the story i just recounted makes me wonder if that's necessarily the case. i know you've been covering him. what do you make of that? >> well, it's been interesting as we've seen in these documents released that the initial batch on wednesday and we got further ones on friday and it does seem there's more and more layers of the administration that seem to know about this. so the question is how long can you be insulated from this? what weigh don't know from the toumts is, you know, particularly the on

the governor has a cake walk to run again. but the democrats do not have a cake walk in the districts that changed in california. i think they will have to defend to their constituents whether they got what they wanted out of this in terms of fiscal prudence, they are all democrats but different stripes democrats. >> we have a great surplus, yes, but this does not begin to address the issue of unfunded pensions. and jill, the teacher's pension for example severely unfunded. >> even though it's a fantastic year, don't get me wrong, there's going to be people screaming loudly. and it's for the reasons that john mentioned. people want the transitional kindergarten. it's a big issue for people up for re-election, and other elected officials out there. but there's a big elephant in the room in california and education and while, we can look off in the distance and go, well, that is 30 years down the road, the reality is, for teachers's pension for example, they are $80 billion in debt. and overall, this big wall of pension debt and health care debt,

. >> some people are going to say you work for a democrat: bill nelson. >> a central democrat. >> now you are writing about the gop civil war. >> yes, but this isn't an i would think a controversy. it is book that looks at the party. it is a comprehensive analysis of what is going on in the party. we are in a two-party system and the party is going through an internal struggle and no one can deny that. we are highlighting what many writers have been talking about around town. >> who is in the civil war >> what is are the sides? >> there are the moderates or what you call the political establishment and the tea party activist. we saw it coming to fruit during the government shutdown and when the whole situation finally ended you had i would consider one of the tea party main say stays sarah palin coming out to be looking at key races in 2014 where they are looking to take on many established conservatives namely mitch mcconnell. and i think we are going to see major damage within the party in 2014. >> our topic this morning is based on eric ham's book "the gop civil war" we want to tal

if you were a democrat you were much more likely to invite democrats. not true of everyone who lived in washington. i mentioned william. william was a famous socialite, a banker, someone who contributed a lot to washington. i'm sure you're familiar with the gallery. he was one of the most committed to a cross-sectional washington community. in part because he knew his livelihood depended on it. as long as he was able to help keep the country together he could make money, have friends, be on good terms with people from both sides of the country. and so he tried to facilitate that kind of cross sectional interaction. which is why he invited people from both section of the country. you never passed up dinner there. it was a wonderful place to eat. he had the best food. for the people who lived in boarding houses in particular, you had some pretty nasty meals on a day-to-day basis. you never passed up a dinner at his house. a lot is getting as involved as possible in the washington community. which say -- allowed do you stay longer, have more influence, get

in order to clear a 60-vote hurdle, democrats have to get four more republicans back on board. back from his hawaii vacation, the congress pressed congress to pass it, previewing a speech he'll give at the white house tomorrow. >> denying families that security is just plain cruel. we're a better country than that. when congress comes back to work this week, the first order of business should be making this right. >> i think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to american workers when rand paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice. they want to work. >> i'm not opposed to unemployment insurance. i am opposed to having it without paying for it. i think it's wrong to borrow money from china. >> i according to the cbo, a three-month extension would cost $6.5 billion. the senate will also vote on janet yellen's nomination. she's expected to be confirmed as the first woman chair of the federal reserve. also on the to-do list for lawmakers this month, a push by democrats to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. that's expected to be the centerpiece of the presiden

coalition government, which is a traditional democratic solution to such a crisis. id, we will give them prime ministers ship and the deputy prime ministers ship. that is colossal concession. that is power-sharing. they did not accept. >> the protesters? >> no, the other democratic leaders did not accept it. one reason, the main reason, the street would not accept it. since both of these guys want to be president when there are elections in 2015 -- if there are elections -- they're not going to go against the street. they have become captives of the street. the street, increasingly, is in the control of these right wingers. let me make a point in will be interesting to hear what anton things of this, many young thugs in the street are trying to kill policeman. they are throwing molotov cocktails at them, beating them up. the police are brutal also, but mainly one democratic country that would allow laws to attack policeman in the street -- name one democratic country that would allow laws to attack policeman in the streets and not crackdown? the police have not crack

it is a silly argument. host: democrats feel like this is a way -- this is one proposal that you get at income disparity in this country. as we mark the anniversary of the war on poverty, what do you think the solutions are you go -- art deco -- the solutions are? i don't hear them give me concrete answers on how they are going to make income equality. don't hear their arguments other than helping out the far far low part of the spectrum. i don't know how that does anything for the minimum class. it just makes everything they buy more expensive. the economy is growing so that it is getting opportunities for the high end people to exploit overseas and make money. it is the re-aligning of the economic world we are living in. speaking outnes about this rebalance inequality. i don't hear them come up with any kind of concrete solutions. host: the wall street journal is reporting -- what do you want to hear from these republicans? i want to hear things that would go back to the simple part of creating jobs, like low tax rates. f

party has the core values of a west virginia democrat. i feel good about that, but sometimes the national party goes a different direction. >> zell gave a speech at the 2004 republican convention, shouldn't expect you to show up at our convention in 2016. >> i don't think so. >> joe works on a lot of issues though that americans want. >> it's common sense. >> and he works on it in a way that we can find common ground, no question about it. >> can i say one thing? >> we'll come back. you can say it then. next i want to make sure we get the final question in for our guest when we get back. i also want you at home to weigh in on today's fire back question. should president obama bypass congress to enact his agenda through some executive action? tweet yes or no usi using #crossfire. we'll give you the results when we get back from this break. >>> we are back with senators joe manchin and john hoeven. now it's time for the final question. first to you. senator, you got a number of responses coming tomorrow from the republicans. you've got con

a massive number of so-called. provocateurs i would like to focus on the. democratic credentials in fact was brought up it's true president journal called which was elected. with a slight majority three and a half percent people ran off in february two thousand and ten but it got to spend fifty percent of the vote but he stole the parliamentary elections in october two thousand and ten and even so his party only got thirty percent of. the i don't i don't understand i don't understand why you're bringing this up i don't understand why you bring this up because you know before you enter into it in november of last year in november of last year brussels was courting mr eunuch overage ok they wanted him there they wanted to talk to him then but now they don't want to do that so don't you find that kind of an odd situation that he was legitimate when he was going to sign that agreement and he's illegitimate now because he didn't sign the agreement go ahead he was illegitimate because he was elected president of ukraine he stole of a parliamentary elections we all know what

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i am a democrat. i have been a democrat my entire life. it my little brother is gay. i believe this is a distraction from a lot of the other things that are going on in our country at the moment. we need to focus our energy on things that are going to make this country better instead of tearing people apart. this is one leading example of how people are opposed to each other instead of working together. host: do you think this is going to become a bigger issue heading into the 2014 congressional ?lections question caller: i hope not. there are bigger issues that we are facing, especially a lot of the ways that we are missing money right now. there is a true opportunity for us to change things. we need to focus on the things that are going to make a true impact and not worry about what other people are doing in their home lives. brian calling them from -- calling in from ashburn, virginia. heather from ohio. good morning. i wanted to just say that i believe this issue it is obviously a political issue -- i think it is more of a psychological situation. there are dynamic