0 increased contributions for federal workers. there s a lot being left out in this deal. probably the most biggest, most outrageous mission is help for the long-term unemployed, benefits as we have reported here for 1.3 million americans are set to expire three days after christmas and this budget deal does nothing for those people and their families. joining me now msnbc political reporter casey hunt. casey, you ve been following this all day on capitol hill. how did this deal come about? reporter: paul murray and patty ryan have been behind closed doors for months. these talks have been ongoing behind closed doors ever since the senate has been putting patty murray s budget on the floor. they kept those talks going even as other efforts by leadership were found and even as we went through that government shutdown. they passed this as a success of basically two budget policy w special interests the koek brothers and to make the point that social security is not going broke, it is
0 this is going to be a fun race to watch. it s really a test of is somebody too crazy for texas. and i believe that he is too crazy for texas. now, governor rendell is right. it is very interesting. the club for growth and conservative funds, they haven t come out for stockman yet. there s a question about whether they ll do so. even they ve got to know is this man is crazy but they have not endorsed the incumbent. how conservative do you have to be to get their endorsement? when somebody jumps in at the last hour, i feel somebody popped in with a ton of money. what else would change b your mind the last day unless somebody like the koch brothers or somebody over there making money? maybe. i don t think they re that crazy. the guy s got $82,000 in his bank account. he was knocked off in the 90s. he served one term. one reason he was dumped off by the voters, after the 1993 confrontation of the come poubd in waco, texas, where members of the cult died. congressman steve stockman
0 increased contributions for federal workers. there s a lot being left out in this deal. probably the most biggest, most outrageous mission is help for the long-term unemployed, benefits as we have reported here for 1.3 million americans are set to expire three days after christmas and this budget deal does nothing for those people and their families. joining me now msnbc political reporter casey hunt. casey, you ve been following this all day on capitol hill. how did this deal come about? reporter: paul murray and patty ryan have been behind closed doors for months. these talks have been ongoing behind closed doors ever since the senate has been putting patty murray s budget on the floor. they kept those talks going even as other efforts by leadership were found and even as we went through that government shutdown. they passed this as a success of basically two budget policy down payment, they are making small changes like pensions for federal workers, the sort of built in costs of
john cornyn and replace him with him. stockman, lest you forget him, is a prime member of the birther crowd. still playing to the racists out there who barked that the president is somehow a manchurian imposter who donald trump suggests no one knew in high school. whatever the hell that s supposed to mean. stockman s also right up there with the real life loony toons. he s also a fan of warning that waco was just a leading indicator that the black helicopters are coming. he said we could reduce the number of abortions in this country, by the way, with arming unborn babies with guns or at least says if they were armed with guns that would prevent abortions. an argument that leaves you wondering about the nature of the man s thinking process. let s put it this way. this guy stockman makes michele bachmann sound like madam curie. who was born to an american mother while refusing to accept president obama born in hawaii. quote, one of the things i always questioned was the docume
we had a .1 decrease in gdp last time. this deficit is a real problem. this is where i depart from paul. who am i to depart from paul? a nobel laureate. we ll ask him. this is about the best deal we ll get out of the right-winged crazy people in the house. because it s balanced and it doesn t really touch there s no better deal progressives are going to get out of this other than going over the cliff. i m so worried about austerity and europeans did it wrong. we had throw years of recovery relative to europe. if we re ever going to take the hit this is a better time to take t if this were three years ago, i would be arguing right with you. i think we can take a chance. when are we going to get the chance to take these cuts in the pentagon or take a bite out of the deficit? i think it s worth it. now twittering dean quester. if he would stop blaming someone else other than himself and man up and take responsibility. kris hayes, i m sure your guests will have much