the problem, according to senator manchin, is not that republicans were obstructing this for the sake of obstructionism, no the that they were wholesale against any protections for voting rights. he said it was simply that this for the people act was the wrong bill. the democrats who had written it had written it wrong. it was too broad, too partisan. shot was written in such a way that it wasn t appealing to republicans, but that was fixable. he insisted that all the other democrats had approached this the wrong way. they had written the bill wrong. if you wrote the bill right, republicans would support it. he insisted to colleagues and public and press that the other democrats had just done this the wrong way. he knew that republican supported vote rights and that, therefore, there was a voting rights bill that could get republican support if just written correctly. and then to his credit, sincerely to his legitimate credit, senator manchin put his money where his mouth was. he said,
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120 billion of the 900 bill wrong that go to the rich, including the estate tax, the rest of it is unemployment, tax cuts for small businesses. it helps the people that the democratic party wants to help, and, by the way that 120 billion that goes to the rich folks, 20 hedge funds managers that made a billion dollars this year aren t going to create they are book keys, they won t create a single job yet they are paying less of their income than the average garbage collector does. i know what trickles down and it ain t economics. your robin hood theory of economics won t work. megyn: you mentioned garbage collector. one of the other interesting pieces in that 60 minutes piece is john boehner said he met his wife originally years and years ago when he was pick up his garbage. that s what he was doing for a living, a sweet guy i guess, met her over the garbage can and a love connection was bornment in any event it s a good piece, you can check it out over on 60 minutes.
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so, in this country, whether we drill it or blow it or grow it or react it or save it, it s about american energy designed by american engineers. what can washington learn from montana when it comes to the budget issues? buy what you need, not what you want. you can please people by running government the way they run their own business. you can t bribe people with their own money anymore. they re smarter than that. that sounds like a that s hopeful. that s exciting. yeah. and common sense, it sounds like to me. i want to ask you, governor, you got the biggest thing that s happened in the federal government in the last 15 months, a big obama health care plan, democratic health care plan. how what did it do to all this money you ve got in the bank? are you worried about the costs that are going to be shifted to the states as that plan goes into effect over the next three or four years? the democrats and republicans both have this bill wrong. democrats say it s the greate
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