obviously, the economy is the main issue for everybody in the country, but the resurgence of really extreme politics on abortion, a lot of the politics around this don t ask, don t tell issue, the religious freedom issues around muslims and islamophobia, the resurgence of these really hot-button culture war issues, how do you see those playing out in terms of election results? i think it s the last gasp of the right. i think they re incredibly energized. the republicans know that the new generation isn t going to buy any of this. if the republicans succeed in this election, it will be because young people don t vote. but they ll be back in 2012. young people in this country can t stand all this anti-gay bigotry, the anti-immigrant bigotry, the crackpot, obama s a muslim stuff. they don t like all that stuff and they re not going to vote for republicans. you know, the republicans know, the smart ones that are in charge of the party some of them are smart in charge of the party. the
the military brass on this, not only will he not support repealing don t ask, don t tell, john mccain says he will lead the filibuster of the bill that contains it. that leads us to an amendment to strike the provision in the bill that would repeal the don t ask, don t tell law as the only other issue the senate will be able to debate and oppose on. i m opposed to amending the national defense authorization act at this time. in senate-ese that means, i can feel a filibuster coming on. so now the pressure s on for john mccain s colleagues in the senate to find 60 senators to override the filibuster he s going to lead. it is reported thus far that senator jim webb of virginia will vote with republicans on this, and that means majority leader harry reid and the democrats need least two republicans to help them repeal don t ask, don t tell. who might those republicans be? oft-mentioned possibilities are olympia snowe, susan collins, scott brown, and dick voinovich. two of those senator
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options, expand competition, and give consumers more choices, which would lower premiums and make health insurance more affordable. if we do that, we will have succeeded. we need to do more to get that to happen, but i believe we can and will get that done. do you think leadership is going to hear you out the second round? we continue to have productive conversations with leadership and with members across the ideological spectrum. this is a process of bringing the conference together, uniting republicans. i think we re making steady progress in that regard, but we still got a way to go. what does the president need to do tonight? what does he need to say tonight? the president has been part of these conversations. i spent about a half hour on the phone with the president a couple days ago and discussed with him that the central focus needs to be on lowering premiums. you know, the biggest reason so many millions of americans are unhappy with obamacare is that it s caused pre
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