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Let me finish tonight with this. Theres nothing so powerful, someone said, as an idea whos time has come. That idea today is marriage equality. The numbers roll in as more and more american ts accept the idea as the younger seem to embrace it, wondering why it was an issue to begin with. So, tonight, we showed you a fullpage newspaper ad with the pictures of general powell and laura bush and even dick cheneey. I look at the 14th amendment to the constitution and see a liberty clause and think about the declaration of independence itself and its hiss toric protection of the pursuit of happiness and wonder why we didnt all see it sooner. Thats hardball for now. Thanks for being with us. Politics nation with al sharpton starts right now. Thanks, krisz, and thanks for tuning in. Wouldnt you know it . A funny thing happened. The truth popped out. John boehner threatens the cuts to the u. S. National security, thousands of jobs and more. Boehner is right. These cuts were design today be so b ....
Republicans admit the cuts will threaten National Security and kill jobs. But they refuse to stop them . It makes zero sense. A new economic report warns these cuts could cause 700,000 workers to lose their jobs this year alone. The pentagon today passed a plan to furlough 8,000 workers if the cuts take effect. Its shameful. And the president is fighting that. Today, he gave interviews to 8 different tv shows around the country, demand gd the gop stop these spending cuts, and, instead, close loopholes for the rich. Instead of us cutting education, Mental Health programs and a whole range of other things that are really important, we should be focused on programs that we know dont work, waste in government and some of these tax holes that, frankly, only benefit the welloff and the well connected. Now i only need congress to act and theyve got 9 days to do it. The president i ....
Enough, margie, republican leadership doing that. you didn t see it at all. if you did, it was very rare during the election last year. and you even have stuart rothenburg saying they re hurting themselves. many of them are so blinded by their anger toward president barack obama, that they re willing to nominate the most conservative kand dalt dat in a primary, no matter how limited his appeal in a general election. and some of the same language you saw in mitt romney s welfare ads from last year. so this language has come from folks on the right, has come from republican leaders and gets ....
Demolish himself between now and november. while those poll numbers are good news for the republicans overall it s going to come down to individual candidates next year. jon: we ll be talking more about those newt gingrich numbers versus mitt romney numbers a little later on in happening now. stuart rothenburg. thank you. pleasure. jon: fox news is your election headquarters. rick has details on thursday s big debate. rick? this is the last debate before the voting begins. the iowa caucus, january 3rd. our debate with all the gop candidates thursday night, 9:00 eastern, right here on fox news channel. the last chance to hear these candidates go at it as they try to mpete for your vote. if you go to foxnews.com we have a candidate tracker. you can also get the details about the debate. december 15th, sioux city, iowa. during the debate itself, jon, i will host a online chat at foxnews.com live during the debate. watch it on fox news channel ....