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attention only encouraging members of congress to act outrageously because they can raise crazy money? yes. we forget it was only a couple months ago we talk about the need for civility in this town. when was this? i think it was state of the union because we were sitting together. oh! it was a long time ago. was that this year? it was this year. i think that lasted two or three news cycles. one of the things about this is that they can really raise a lot of money. allen webb was a pretty good fund-raiser when he ran in 2010, he raised double what his opponent raised and you see here with this he immediately upped the request for funds. will definitely raise his profile. for democrats it feeds into this narrative they have about tea party members being outside the mainstream, being extreme, and it also i think underscores another problem that republicans have and that s a woman problem. there are not a lot of women you see in leadership there and i think because it was from a
we can let others decide whether that encompassed the dnc or not but when we see this i look back and i think, you lie and joe wilson and all this stuff, in a weird way isn t all this attention only encouraging members of congress to act outrageously because they can raise crazy money? yes. we forget it was only a couple months ago we talk about the need for civility in this town. when was this? i think it was state of the union because we were sitting together. oh! it was a long time ago. was that this year? it was this year. i think that lasted two or three news cycles. one of the things about this is that they can really raise a lot of money. allen webb was a pretty good fund-raiser when he ran in 2010, he raised double what his opponent raised and you see here with this he immediately upped the request for funds. will definitely raise his profile. for democrats it feeds into this
good morning, it is thursday, july 21st, 2011. yes, 217 is the majority right now that you would need to pass something in the house because there are two vacancies. anthony weiner and dean heller. to my first reads of the morning. we re in the same place we were three months ago. nobody has a debt plan that can get passed in the republican-controlled house. and there s more and more talk on the hill that the only way for house republicans to eventually support any deal is for them to watch the markets actually reacting well take a dive. you can count the tracks this process is working on by the number of meetings scheduled, announced and unannounced. just yesterday, for instance, democratic leaders met with the president at the white house. then it was house republican leaders at the white house. then it was pelosi,boehner and canter. this isn t exactly high-speed rail. right now there are multiple trains heading toward the station. some of them may continue up to the
three months ago. nobody has a debt plan that can get passed in the republican-controlled house. and there s more and more talk on the hill that the only way for house republicans to eventually support any deal is for them to watch the markets actually reacting well take a dive. you can count the tracks this process is working on by the number of meetings scheduled, announced and unannounced. just yesterday, for instance, democratic leaders met with the president at the white house. then it was house republican leaders at the white house. then it was pelosi,boehner and canter. this isn t exactly high-speed rail. right now there are multiple trains heading toward the station. some of them may continue up to the last moment because we need to be sure that that failsafe option is there even as we pursue aggressively the possibility of doing something bigger. look, here s where things stand. there are three different big deals out there. number one is what the president and