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Be trusted, no one, now perhaps the unclassified version is more frank. we certainly hope it is. but keeping them honest, none of this sounds like the very best very mixed progress, which may explain why it always sounds like a mixed message. take a look. we re making progress in our mission. with you beer a loe re a lon we need to be. progress. significant progress. some progress. real progress. important progress. we re steadily making progress. i would add that because of the progress you re making we look forward to a new phase next year. the truth is the situation in afghanistan has deteriorated. we will continue to face huge challenges in afghanistan. progress does not come fast enough. progress comes slow at a high price. much more work needs to be done. it s not going to be instant. it is a big, messy process. but it s important that the american people know we are making progress. and i m absolutely convinced we will succeed. ....
Okay, one last drink before the new folks come in to town and we re going to have to cut spending. and i think they decided at the very least, anderson, that the optics of this looked so bad for all of them that they ought to just try and deal with it, pass a continuing resolution, and go away when their work is done, but take this out of the picture. you think, steve, this is a sign of the power of the tea party movement? absolutely. i think tonight you re seeing not so much the implications of the november election in which republicans won big, but all of the primaries that came before november in which one republican incumbent after another in which one establishment figure after another was taken out by a tea party base that hates any kind of compromise with the democrats. one of the symbols of that has been earmarks. $8 billion of this is earmarks, that s less than 1% of the entire bill. but that became the symbol of what this represents. and so every republican, you know, in ....
does senator reid look weak tonight? he did what he had to do because he didn t have the votes, but honestly this omnibus spending bill was like a bunch of alcoholics about to go into alcoholics anonymous and saying, okay, one last drink before the new folks come in to town and we re going to have to cut spending. and i think they decided at the very least, anderson, that the optics of this looked so bad for all of them that they ought to just try and deal with it, pass a continuing resolution, and go away when their work is done, but take this out of the picture. you think, steve, this is a sign of the power of the tea party movement? absolutely. i think tonight you re seeing not so much the implications of the november election in which republicans won big, but all of the primaries that came before november in which one republican incumbent after another in which one republican establishment figure after another was taken out by a tea party base that hates any kind of comprom ....