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republicans failed in the super fail super committee to reach a grand bargain and deal with our country s debt crisis. but still what reid said was absolutely right. and he follows another hero on this front. his buddy ole pal john boehner, who says he doesn t want to wait for the election and put all talk off to be solved in the lame-duck six-month window. it took me eight months to get people interested in talking about talking about the problem. so so you re going early now? let s start now. why are we going to wait until after the election? boehner is dead right. and so is harry reid. we need to do this before the election and not mess around with shifting money from one side of the sequestration ledger to the other. that s a waste of time. now, of course the problem is that boehner and reid could end up like thelma and louise, they end up choosing death over compromise. you sure? yeah. yeah. that was going out in a blaze of glory. of course, it ende ....
outfront tonight, two heroes on the prowl. i need a hero i m holding out for a hero until the end of the night he s gotta be strong and he s gotta be fast yes, bonnie tyler, holding out for a hero. and yes, we think we found them. first stop, senate majority leader harry reid. today in an interview with politico he said the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts set to begin on january 2nd should go ahead as is. come hell or high water. i am not going to back off the sequestration. that s the law we passed. we did it because it wouldn t make things easy for us. it made it so we would have to do something. of course we re in this position because democrats and republicans failed in the super fail super committee to reach a grand bargain and deal with our country s debt crisis. but still what reid said was absolutely right. and he follows another hero on this front. his buddy ole pal john boehner, who says he doesn t want to wait for the election and put a ....