. >> dana millbank, washington post columnist. dana, battle lines are drawn. they've been drawn really but where does this go now? >> now they're just drawing them with a sharpie. >> as opposed to an erasable pencil. >> exactly. it's pretty set in stone. the whole thing here is, look, we're just a few months from the election. nobody's expecting any serious action to come through congress on this or anything else before the election. there's always a chance, and very important for obama to change the subject away from these weak jobs reports to -- and the weak economy to something where he has an advantage. more of a populous cause. i don't blame him at all for trying this. it's going to be hard to change the subject and harder still to get something through. >> perry, governor rendell made this point for you. let me play it for you. >> i think it's good politics, clearly. take it to the congress, show the congress isn't reacting. is it good economics? well, it's fairness. doesn't bring that much money towards getting rid of the deficit. what would is if we di

anyway, dana millbanks. he was throwing out to try to get this away from him, the horse is excited about this olympic. i don't know how you read that. >> must be very exciting for the horses to get this trip across europe. in fact, the romneys went to europe to import him. >> fly or ship? >> i think they strap him on to the roof of the ship. >> they flew the horses. that is exciting. >> it is. i think the reason -- >> this is wild. >> strap them to the top of the airplane. >> that's cruel. >> i think the reason romney is dancing around the dancing horses is ricalto, if that's how we pronounce the name, is more of a threat than shamus the dog. that showed weirdness, but this shows who owns a herd of dancing horses? >> this is going to make wind surfing like half ball on a stick in south philly. this is so elite. erin? dressage. >> he doesn't want to talk about it. he said i'm not going to be watching it. my wife is. he's not even going to watch it on television. his wife's problem now, just like the bermuda s

. >> dana millbank, washington post columnist. dana, battle lines are drawn.en drawn really but where does this go now? >> now they're just drawing them with a sharpie. >> as opposed to an erasable pencil. >> exactly. it's pretty set in stone.

. >> bob shrum, dana millbank, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thanks, reverend. >> a major hearing rallies against pennsylvania voter i.d. laws today. now we are learning pennsylvania made a big revelation in court documents. big story. plus, how one tough 80-year-old and some fruit saved the day. >>> we are back with a pause from the political battles of the day. time to rest and relax and recharge. that's right. it is time for the "politics nation" summer break. we start tonight in the southwest of china. and mitt romney's employees enjoying on a lunch break. joking, joking. the bridge parachuting challenge. base jumpers freefell off the world's highest suspension bridge. 27 men and three women from 15 countries took on the challenge. up from china to pittsburgh, where 200-pound bear is looking for some bargains at the mall. the bear came in through an open door making his way over to sears and browse for about ten minutes. when asked why he was in sears, the bear respond ed, newt is ovr at tiffany's. an 80-year-old granny saw two men stealing at the grocery store

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that was dana millbank who is on the other side of this issue. i mentioned there are three things. one is that a fact that incontrovertible that people agree on, that one or two events aren't going to be reflect the climate or having have anything to do with global warming. the second is the cost estimate. i wasn't -- years ago when the kyoto treaty was up i wasn't sure which way to go. i assumed the scientists were all together on this only to find out that they weren't but one thing we did find out when we got a report from several universities including m.i.t. that the cost of this if we were to pass any of the bills would have been between $300 billion and $400 billion a year. what i always do when i hear about billions and trillions of dollars i try to go back and figure out how does that affect my family in the state of oklahoma. about back when we had the largest clinton-gore tax increase, you might remember that, 1993, they increased marginal rates, death tax, capital gains tax and all of that. and it was at that time the largest tax increase in three decades and we've were