i discussed a number of the failures of the republican congress and every one of them is important. by indirection this a.d.'s congress has tried to sabotage the power policy with the united states has pursued for fourteen years we can you say this country from a continuation no they have congress and from miss ruth from now on i must have your help you must get in and push and win this election the country can't afford another republican congress. are you taking notes mr president obama truman's decision to fight back in one hundred forty eight what you just saw led to huge democratic victories in the next election he so completely crushed them that republicans didn't control the house of representatives again for forty six years so no matter how bad things are right now they can be turned around just like they were turned around in one nine hundred forty eight but it's going to require a fight your dreams mr president of a post partisan presidency our debt a progressive change is still alive and we're waiting for you time to put on the gloves and not the republicans right out of co

can't republicans in congress get the message? instead, they protect tax breaks for big oil. breaks for billionaires. even tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas. republicans in congress have shown who they stand up for. voting to take care of the wealthy. not the middle class. it's time to bring jobs back to america. seiu cope is responsible for the content of this advertising. >>> as president obama in decorah, iowa, second stop on his bus tour, he seems to be getting in his fighting mood. and i'm a fighter, i like to see that. but even more than that, i want to see some reality on the ground to change our conditions. the republicans are coming with unreality. i'm going to talk about it. we'll be right back. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ machines have a voice. ♪ medical history follows you. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities... committed to delivering the most advanced mobile broadband experience to help move business... forward. ♪ of these abandoned racetracks in america today. automotive performance is gone. and all we have lef

he is going to, as alexis said, he is the anti-republican congress. but he wasn't as fiercely partisan. he was trying to be the adult in the room, as he's said so many times, and that look, i'm probably the best option here. >> that is probably his real opponent. all this jockeyy -- jockeying among the opponents, i think the president's ream opponent is the economy and what's going on in people's lives. a couple weeks ago somebody called my attention to the consumer confidence indexes. if you look at where they stand now, there have only been two presidential election years where they have been as low as they are today. those two were 1980 and 1992, which also happened to be the only two election years since then that americans have thrown out an elected incumbent. john: so to try and fix this, he's going to give a speech after labor day. what do we know is going to be in this one? >> yeah. another speech. well, the president, as you know, makes it clear in every way he can that he is been working, working, working on the jobs problem and the economic

credit squarely in the lap of republicans in congress. >> see t didn't happen because we don't have the capacity to pay our bills. it happened because washington doesn't have the capacity to come together and get things done. it was a self-inflicted wound. >> i'm joined by msnbc political analyst jonathan allter. >> hi, veronica. >> the president is meeting with business leaders at the white house, talking about the economy. a lot of democrats are saying we want more decisive action. how much longer can the president keep on shifting the blame around, if you will? >> i'm not sure he's shifting the blame. he's taking some ownership for this economy. >> what just happened with the downgrade of -- >> he didn't take responsibility for the downgrade because he didn't deserve blame for if you read what s&p wrote they pretty squarely placed the blame for the brinksmanship if they called it, on the republicans for not agreeing to at least discuss new revenues, that's very clearly in their statement, it hasn't gotten very much attention, so you can blame him for a lot, you can blame him for the

it is up to the size and magnitude of the problem, how in the world does he get it through republican congresslizing the public, using the bully pulpit and basically rounding up enough votes? i think that is what he needs to do. >> there is one other option. the president has created a lot of uncertainty in the economy, the national federation of independent business, the business roundtable says the single biggest reason we have $2 trillion sitting on the sideline is the regulatory uncertainty, dodd-frank or other things that people are unsure of what the future will be. >> you can't do it right now -- >> you can. the president can say in addition to the jobs programs and the payroll tax cut, we'll have a regulatory freeze and i'll revisit every one of these regulations. i'll try to inject some certainty in the economic decision-making problems the companies face. >> what about that? you give a little on regulations? >> well, undoubtedly, you know, we should get rid of regulations that don't work. after we have seen a year of the bp oil spill and mining disasters and wall street, you know, tw

and we are likely to see them comparing president obama not to the republicans in congress but to the republican candidate for president. >> greta: you think this is the worst week president obama has had? >> on the domestic front, yes. we had the passage of this unpopular measure he was castigated by the left, right, center on his absence of leadership on it. it didn't get done what he said he wanted to get done. left a bad taste in people's how the, bad job numbers, bad growth numbers, then we come to friday night and the downgrade of the u.s. american credit rating. >> greta: what happened? is it that he lost the democratic house so things don't so smoothly go for him? is it economic policies have well? the trends aren't good. what happened? >> it is bad policies. people have concluded this 2 1/2 year of experiment of spending to prosperity has not worked. in the pollster.com average of all polls, the president's job approval on the economy is an average of 35% approve, 57% disapprove. 22 point difference. he's getting down to base democrats who are the only people in america appro

but we need legislation to get this done and the congress won't do it. all the republicansn congress have done is many bills to roll back financial reform, to allow the banks to go back and write their own rules. that's all you can say has come out of the republicans in congress. the president said he's going to come out with a plan. already, republicans are saying we don't want anything to do with it. you have the speaker, the head of the republicans in the senate, mitch mcconnell, saying my goal is to defeat barack obama. the public is sick of it. we need our children... we need jobs for them. we need to create manufacturing in this country. we're losing it to china and india and brazil, germany. we can't go from a nation where we're importing oil from kuwait and saudi arabia to buy wind turbines and solar panels from germany and china. we have to buy american, make them in america. >> another speech is not going to help. you can't talk about jobs and the need for job creation when your policies are killing jobs. that's what's been going on. the president can, you know, c

not considering downgrading the united states credit rating because congress is -- you must raise taxes. the refusal of the republicans, not congress, the republicans in particular, to have some revenue increases there shows they are not serious about deficit reduction, and that is what could lead to the downgrade. it's the seriousness with which they approach deficit reduction that is the standard that the credit ratings use. it's not how much you cut in the short-term or medium term. it's whether your basic plan for reducing the deficit has integrity at all. and anybody, including tom coburn knows it doesn't if there are no revenue increases, so he can't blame them being "banana republicans. >> and the polls show, the polling indicates the public relieves yes, you do need responsible evidence. jonathan alter and "the washington post"'s ezra klein. thank you both for joining me tonight. >> coming up, an oscar winner will take over this chair to rewrite -- i'm not going to tell you what he's going to talk about. he's going to do a guest rewrite but i think you see a picture of what might be a clue. it's a last word fi

a lot of republicans in congress. the left he's being hit hard by some democrats and liberals who are disappointed in his job performance. but he seemed okay. he seemed pretty lively. the only time i saw him get emotional at all was when i asked him what the worst part of his job. he got emotional speaking about when he comforts family members who have lost loved ones fighting for the united states in iraq and afghanistan. but i didn't get any sense that he was depressed or anything like that. >> david, here's what president obama said when asked by wolf about why it's taken so long on some of these initiatives. >> what's happened is that number one, you've seen a lot of layoffs at state and local government. and that has been an impediment to the kind of robust job growth that we'd like to see. and there have been some headwinds over the last six months. japan's tsunami, the european debt crisis, what happened in terms of the arab spring that raised gas prices for consumes. >> do you think, david, those are legitimat

as i said a moment ago, he doesn't even say generally republicans, he'll say congress which is again the republicans in congress who are blocking his agenda. but he -- they have a clear strategy over in campaign land for how they'll go after romney if he's the candidate. they're working on one for perry if he's the candidate. he needs to, in their view, stay above it all and stay presidential and stay focused on the jobs and the economy which is what the american people want. >> whether does that clafrpg? when does he start to enter the fray? >> oh, i think -- when a republican candidate emerges. i think jessica is right. he'll go more hammer and tongue at that person. but here's what's ironic. wolf said what is exactly right. this is usually you see this start up in full campaign mode after labor day. after labor day. but wolf knows and jessica knows that is usually labor day of election year. and now we have a full campaign mode on labor day of the year before. and i think when the country is hurting, i think a lot of americans would like to see less campaigning and more action in w

the last time we were in the majority, we couldn't get it in the republican congress, now we are getting discretionary caps. that is a big achievement. number two, we newsed to sneak ese in budget resolutions and now it's in here in plain sight. and what are w doing? we are actually cutting spending while we do this. that's cultural. that's significant. that's a big step in theright direction. we are getting 2/3 of the cuts we wanted in our budget and as far as i'm concerned, 66% in the right direction is a whole lot >> the house to raise the debt limit. during the vote, gabrielle giffords returned months after being injured in a shooting in tucson, arizona. here is that reaction. [cheers and applause] cape st. clai -- [cheers and applause] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 2 -- the speaker: on this vote the yeas are 269, the nays are 161. the bill is passed and without objection a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from utah rise? >> permission to speak out of order. the speaker: without objection, so ordered. mr. bishop: kids

a lot of republicans in congress.rom the left he's being hit hard by some democrats and liberals who are disappointed in his job performance. but he seemed okay. he seemed pretty lively. the only time i saw him get emotional at all was when i asked him what the worst part of his job. he got emotional speaking about when he comforts family members who have lost loved ones fighting for the united states in iraq and afghanistan. but i didn't get any sense that he was depressed or anything like that. >> david, here's what president obama said when asked by wolf about why it's taken so long on some of these initiatives. >> what's happened is that number one, you've seen a lot of layoffs at state and local government. and that has been an impediment to the kind of robust job growth that we'd like to see. and there have been some headwinds over the last six months. japan's tsunami, the european debt crisis, what happened in terms of the arab spring that raised gas prices for consumes. >> do you think, david, those are legiti

congress. i never count my votes until they are cast. i am hopeful, but you know that the republicans are going have to produce some votes, and we're going to have to produce votes, so i'm not here to declare victory. we need to get this thing passed. [inaudible] >> i was referring to people who said that the committee is a waste of time. nothing will happen there. i just think we have to go into this with people with their eyes wide open, willing to make difficult choices, but yet understand the political reality of the world we are in. [inaudible] i feel like i am 25, but i am not. [laughter] >> the house republican leadership also spoke to reporters about the compromise agreement reached sunday on raising the debt ceiling and reducing the federal budget. this runs about 10 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. in january, our first week that we were sworn into office, the president asked for an increase in the debt ceiling and i made clear at that time that there would be no increase in the debt ceiling without significant cuts in spending and changes to the way we spend the americ

and it's a republican congress gives him an opportunity? i'd be passing those things. you look at. >> sean: not going on vacation. >> and and with this talk about corporate jets and there is a message. and coming back early. >> sean: do you get a 10 day vacation? >> get a three-week vacation in iowa. >> and and seven children are here with me. we've made a commitment. the house and8 senate have to make that commitment, too. it's key on what is going on in this political time. to go and sit on side lines when the markets are this upset about what is going on in this country we'll see we'll let a committee do it. they're right. >> senator, great to see you. >> and we'll be around next two days. >> sean: coming up more analysis from tonight's republican presidential primary debate. herman cane coming up next, we're live in ames, iowa. special edition of "hannity" continues, straight ahead. to keep in balance after 50, i switched to a complete multivitamin with more. only one a day women's 50+ advantage has ginkgo for memory and concentration,

and it's a republican congress gives him an opportunity?as republican congress i'd be passing those things. you look at. >> sean: not going on vacation. >> and and with this talk about corporate jets and there is a message. and coming back early. >> sean: do you get a 10 day vacation? >> get a three-week vacation in iowa. >> and and seven children are here with me. we've made a commitment. the house and8 senate have to make that commitment, too. it's key on what is going on in this political time. to go and sit on side lines when the markets are this upset about what is going on in this country we'll see we'll let a committee do it. they're right. >> senator, great to see you. >> and we'll be around next two days. >> sean: coming up more analysis from tonight's republican presidential primary debate. herman cane coming up next, we're live in ames, iowa. special edition of >>> also taking capitol gains rates to zero as well as make it permanent. uncertainty is killing this company. now if a company were to decide they want to take some of t

of americans working and collecting good paychecks and that's what harry truman did in the republican congress in one nine hundred forty eight and he not only won the presidency but the republicans didn't control the house of representatives again for forty six years mr president there are millions of people who work their butts off to get you elected and haven't given up on you and are ready to stand behind you but you have to leave right now you have to be the loud voice for progressive change that you were in two thousand and eight if you do that if you fight and fight hard then we will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and turn this nation around and put an end to the tea party and the republican hostage takers once and for all. but if you don't then one of these guys will get elected president that's the choice drastic times require bold measures we've done our part in showing up to get you elected and even taking back parts of wisconsin and a lot of efforts and a lot of other states it's time mr president for the need for you to do your part in a big way sir get out there get active

and it's a republican congress gives him an opportunity?as republican congress i'd be passing those things. you look at. >> sean: not going on vacation. >> and and with this talk about corporate jets and there is a message. and coming back early. >> sean: do you get a 10 day vacation? >> get a three-week vacation in iowa. >> and and seven children are here with me. we've made a commitment. the house and8 senate have to make that commitment, too. it's key on what is going on in this political time. to go and sit on side lines when the markets are this upset about what is going on in this country we'll see we'll let a committee do it. they're right. >> senator, great to see you. >> and we'll be around next two days. >> sean: coming up more analysis from tonight's republican presidential primary debate. herman cane coming up next, we're live in ames, iowa. special edition of >>> also taking capitol gains rates to zero as well as make it permanent. uncertainty is killing this company. now if a company were to decide they want to take some of t

republicans control the house. would you prefer the president not blame the people in washington or the congress and specifically sayepublicans? >> yes, i would prefer that. and i've had those discussions with the president. >> and why won't he get tougher with them? >> well, i hope he will. i don't know. i think the president by nature wants to be diplomatic. i'm the same way. i call myself a southern gentleman but there are times when i put that aside and go right to the core of the problem. the problem is that the republican leadership refuses to allow a jobs bill to come to the floor. i have one that's got bipartisan support. it has a companion bill over in the senate that has bipartisan support. the co-sponsorship is bipartisan. but we cannot get them to bring this to the floor. and i think the president sooner or later is going to have to lay this right at the doorsteps of the republican leadership. we did not vote for all of these things that's got us in this problem today. democrats have supported his agenda and we still look forward to supporting him in the future. he needs to call the republicans out. that

republican congress quoted this week -- saying "we are not kidding around, we would have taken it down." by "it," he means you, the u.s. economy. we wanted it to go nuclear. if we are talking about the risk of default, if we are talking about playing with fire, this is not a both sides kind of thing. the beltway loves to say both sides deserve the blame, this is the platonic form of not both sides fault. i'm sorry if this sounds partisan to point it out but this is not both sides with the same error. this was republicans alone causing this problem by saying they would not raise the debt ceiling. and it is liberals and democrats who have been saying all along that this take by the republicans was dangerous. that's why it's frankly weird to be a liberal pundit reading the s&p press release about republicans behaving dangerously in washington, the reason s&p downgraded the u.s. credit score was essentially the list of liberal and democratic talking points against the republican congress taking the debt ceiling hostage. this sounds like it's straight off an msnbc teleprompter. "the politic

of automatic cuts will be so unpalatable across the board, hitting democratic and republican constituencies that congressill be motivated to pass whatever the super committee comes up with, but be careful what you wish for. anyone who thinks a body composed equally of democrats and republicans will produce anything other than a conservative agenda has not been paying attention. if you're sitting there saying to yourself how can this congress or three or five congresses from now, you're not alone. your name might as well be chris hayes, that's what i'm thinking too. joining us is ezra klein, msnbc policy analyst and the man i like to talk to when every sentence i have ends in a question mark. >> hi, chris, how are you? >> i'm genuinely trying to figure out this statutory mechanism here. obviously the congressional budget office scores these cuts for ten years. understood. how does this congress say what spending is in, say, 2017? >> it doesn't, and one thing to always note when you see a bill like this, they keep saying discretionary spending, and the reason they keep saying discretionary spending is nobo

the republican congress has not offered any solutions and their programs have been rejected from theed medicare, the cut, cap, and balance. it's a choice. >> i'll have to interrupt you because we're running out of time and we have one more guest. but i am going to assume, tom, you would say, but the republicans can argue the president's solutions didn't work. >> well, they didn't work. he had two years. look, with everything else going on, what is on the ground matters. right now, the people are suffering. unemployment is high. houses are under water. lost our credit rating with one of the major houses, and the wars are not going well, and they look to the president and blaming right-wings are narratives that are not going to fly. >> thank you so much for joining us. >>> up next, the danger of cyber attacks on the united states. >> if the nation went to war today in a cyber war, we would lose. we would lose. we are the most honorable and vulnerable, we're the most connected. we have the most to lose. [ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. you g

of words that he had with congress and how he won with that however the truth was that that congress republican controlled congress that you know was kicked out of congress that you know that was not a do nothing congress i mean there's have a cia they established several things that are still exist today that we all appreciate so you know it was the u.s.s. rename oh you know they extended that made they created this national security idea that we still embrace today so yes he won the war of words but the reality is good at that he wasn't you know being wrong you know and i would i like is that obama says we explore we can on your question of approval let's just you know this one here congress is disapproval rate is now eighty two percent last night of the daily show jon stewart asked him about this and he had this to say. john is say that the approval rating for congress is between six and nineteen i don't believe we have that many relatives so. the numbers are inflated the numbers are and it's eighty two percent the it turns out republicans are mostly to blame for this john boehner disapprova

he's going to decry partisanship all the while attacking the republican congress for effectively blockingam and blaming george w. bush for getting us in the mess we're all in today. so, i think it's basically a deflect strategy and also, suggests that he had ideas that if only the republicans didn't block the country would be in better shape. >> before i go to david, which policies specifically would he say he wants to place, he got health care. >> sure he got health care and didn't get the deficit reduction package and didn't get the overall reforms and most of all tax increases that he wanted and it may not be popular, but his point is if we'd done balanced deficit reduction in extending the debt limit. i think his argument, we wouldn't have been downgraded by s & p and we'd be a more happy and nation. >> jamie: thank you, david role will the increase limit. downgrade. job situation play for the republican party? >> well, it highlights the failed leadership of president obama. you know, this strategy that we're talking about here reminds me of homer simpson quote teamwork is essential i

and by sending to the congress this year 87 new republicans, the american people have actually changed that and change the direction of this country. it has so that the bill is not perfect and it is not, but changing the way that washington spends taxpayer dollars is like redirecting an aircraft carrier. it is a monumental task. i think that in my experience trophoblast couple of months, i've been involved in a lot of discussion surrounding this issue. from day one this administration has been insistent that we raise taxes in order to solve this problem. i think the big win for us and for the american people is the fact that there are no tax hikes in this package. with so many people out of work, with a middle-class hoping for more jobs, the last thing we need right now are tax hikes. i am told that the leader on the other side of the building, the majority leader, went to the floor today and indicated that somehow i had changed my position on that. i can tell you flat out he is wrong. i insist again that now is not the time for us to be considering a tax hikes when there are over 9% u

can't republicans in congress get the message? instead, they protect tax breaks for big oil. ks for billionaires. even tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas. republicans in congress have shown who they stand up for. voting to take care of the wealthy. not the middle class. it's time to bring jobs back to america. seiu cope is responsible for the content of this advertising. excuse me? my grandfather was born in this village. [ automated voice speaks foreign language ] [ male announcer ] in here, everyone speaks the same language. ♪ in here, forklifts drive themselves. no, he doesn't have it. yeah, we'll look on that. [ male announcer ] in here, friends leave you messages written in the air. that's it right there. [ male announcer ] it's the at&t network. and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. ♪ >>> welcome back to "morning joe." a live picture looking at the upper west side. a place where pat buchanan never won a single vote in his life. >> you still never won a vote. >> they regret it deeply. >> they do. let's do some news. the guardian newspa

but when we went from have a democratic president and republican congress, that was the only way we got a balanced budget. to the friction between those two actually allowed us to get the balanced budget. in 2001, republicans showed they had the same problem that democrats did, when they had the white house, and the house, and the senate. there is a giddiness. i am not a fan of stalin but he had won why is line. with power, in this. -- dizziness. there was some dizziness and republicans started over spending. in 2006, our last year in the majority, the democrats rightfully be up on republicans because we were overspending. we overspent $160 billion. and they were beating up on us on the floor and they were right in doing so. we had no business overspending the amount we were bringing of by hundred $60 billion. who knew that five years later we would doing 10 times that much in deficit spending? i got here in 2005 and became very apparent we need a balanced budget amendment, whether republicans or democrats in power at the time. that is a game changer, but even that, that was not enough

and even more into challenging the republican congress to do something. d is what the president outlined, not just to the american people, but to the leaders of the republican party. the only way we're going to make real progress recess on our fiscal situation is to do something on both sides of the ledger, right? there are people in my party that don't want to hear if in order to preserve medicare for the future, we're going to have to make some changes. yes. >> right. >> but at the same time, we can't make changes for seniors and ask millionaires and billionaires to do nothing except continue to collect the huge tax cuts. that's not what the country was founded on. we're going to have to ask everybody to do their part. the president wanted everyone to do their part and outlined something that was big and granld. and despite years and years of talking about now saddling our and grandchildren with debt, the republicans sat around the table and said, we can't do this. they wouldn't take yes for an answer because quite frankly, they were pledging allegiance

bill clinton emerged from his showdown with the republicans congress then, elevated, as the dominantgure. i don't think, if barack obama emerges from his confrontation with the republican congress, republican house any way, not as an enhanced figure, he looks stronger by contrast. >> this is the core weakness of the obama presidency right now, which is that even if he emerges in slightly better shape than the congressional republicans from these debates, the overall impression that the public is getting is of presidential weakness and inability to manage washington. the whole neary of the obama campaign in 2008 was vote for me, i'm going to change washington, i'm going to make it work again, all the rest of it. and for the average voter who doesn't follow politics that closely, they look at the situation in washington and they think, well, maybe we should put somebody else in charge of it. >> lehrer: one thing we have not talked about is the f.a.a. thing, that kind of fell between the cracks when everybody was worry going the debt ceiling debate. that was a terrible thing. >> it was

it is bipartisan and bicameral. 12 members, six democrats, six republicans. congress is to have a report by thanksgiving on their work. no amendments are allowed, and a simple majority vote to pass in the senate and the house. mr. president, thi this closely follows the recommendation of senator gregg and i from five years ago to create a commission empowered to bring to a vote in the senate and the house a plan to get our debt under control and to do it sthat you wouldn't have the endless process that our current situation requires. mr. president, the idea was to create a brac-like systemo that a proposal could come before the senate, could come before the houseo get our debt down. it is modeled in many ways after the reconciliation procs that was designed for deficit reduction and only requires a simple majority vote. there is a failsafe. if this committee fails to produce a result, the failsafe is across-the-board cuts in defense and non-defense spending with exemptions for social security, veterans, low-income people, and it limits the medicare reductions to 2%. m

obama makes his planned job speech after labor day, what meaningful steps can he it take with a republican congresssn't want it dance with him. >>> mean while in syria, president assad tells the united nations his crackdown on protesters is finished, that on the same day another nine people are killed in the streets of that country. the question is what more account international community do with assad beyond all the verbal threats. >>> and former senatorial candidate and nonwitch christine owe donele was back on tv last night for a while any way. then she had to leave in the middle of the interview. the question is what made her walk out and why was she on it chlt tv in the first place? it's way too early for this. good morning, everyone. this is the show that has never

reporter: republicans will try very hard to make it blow back just like democrats will hit the republican congress for taking the entire month of august off. but i think, lester, average voters here in cannon falls and places like it see that as political games. what they want is washington to do something about the weak economy. the white house and congress will get a chance to do that when they come back in september. >> let's talk about the republicans. is tim pawlenty's exit from this race further strengthen michele bachmann or does it perhaps give newcomer rick perry some more maneuvering room? >> reporter: it's an opening for rick perry. what makes governor perry so dangerous to other republicans in this primary race is that he can attract the red hot support from the base that michele bachmann can, but he can also get the establishment support that michele bachmann can't. there's a little bit more of that establishment support that's up for grabs right now, lester, then there was before tim pawlenty got out. >> john harwood, good to talk to you. thank you. >>> overseas tonight, there are fa

saw what was different this time is that this became a proxy ideological war between the republicans in congress and the democrats now of course we are entering an election year and so the republicans chose this time to sort of dig in their heels and to really fight with the democrats over issues that both sides are diametrically opposed to what do these so-called tea party republicans the right wing republicans want no taxes much lower taxes they want very little government spending with the exception on occasion to of course defense spending democrats meanwhile want to keep spending on social programs at high levels they want to close with they call corporate tax loopholes and essentially have the wealthiest folks in the society the brunt on the economy now at this at this stage in the economic game both courses are unsustainable of course we ended up seeing this political battle erupt bringing the nation to the brink of a first ever default and the irony at the end of the day is that both sides walked away very very unhappy one of the things that this legislation does is essentially guarantee

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candidates and from republicans in congress, sort of signal that it's ok to go after john boehner for the house republicans' work ethic, or do democrats unilaterally disarm on this? >> do democrats unilaterally disarm? we've never seen that before, you know, why not? why not go after boehner for the congressional work ethic? i would love to see that. i'd love to hear that. i would love to have that in the next msnbc contract. however, i don't see it coming. you know, one week off for every two weeks on. >> although, you are giving me ideas. you're giving me ideas. eugene robinson, columnist for "the washington post," msnbc contributor, and man, i take it back actually, i'll go on any bus tour with you anywhere, no matter how cheesy the bus. >> rev it up. pedal to the metal. >>> for a brand-new campaign raising thing called make us great again, because campaign fundraising things like this must be independent from specific candidates, make us great again is clearly independent, right? no individual candidate there. legally and clearly independent of the rule that says they have to be i