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let's turn to congressman bill pascrel of new jersey and our other guests.at to have you all with us tonight. you first. i mean, this is amazing. boehner says the democrats didn't have a plan but they obviously did. are they just counting on people not paying attention to this stuff? >> i think they're in their own universe. you pointed out and it's been pointed out over and over again the president has laid many plans at their door step to see what they might be willing to do. our colleague congressman chris van holland introduced a substitute in the house side and, quite frankly, wouldn't even allow it to come up. they really want to go down this road of the sequester and, by the way, if the speaker doesn't know how bad this would be all he needs to do is listen to ben bernanke about what kind of an effect this would have on economic recovery. all he has to do is listen to the national association of business economists who said the sequestration is a bad idea. i would suggest to him that he talk to one of the 25,000 women who is going to be unwilling, una