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VictorVonDoom said:
The first 25 seconds or so are blank...that's my fault.

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I'll be back later, but could you set up a write up that breaks it into time intervals like zerozero used to do. Also, I just did my random click around to make sure things were working like I usually do, but somebody's mic has an echo. I don't know who it is, might be VVD, but whenever you talk (at least the first 10 minutes in) there is an echo.

As far as that sequester stuff I heard in the beginning, I think you guys should've referenced Ezra Klein's article, it what a lot of my friends on the hill have said as well.

File this under “Jonathan Chait is right.”

My column this weekend is about the almost comically poor lines of communication between the White House and the Hill. The opening anecdote was drawn from a background briefing I attended with a respected Republican legislator who thought it would be a gamechanger for President Obama to say he’d be open to chained CPI — a policy that cuts Social Security benefits — as part of a budget deal.

(Charles Dharapak/AP)

The only problem? Obama has said he’s open to chained CPI as part of a budget deal. And this isn’t one of those times where the admission was in private, and we’re going off of news reports. It’s right there on his Web site. It’s literally in bold type. But key GOP legislators have no idea Obama’s made that concession.

The question my column left open was whether improving the lines of communication would actually change anything. Chait’s view is no, it wouldn’t. He begins by quoting Upton Sinclair’s famous line: “It is impossible to make a man understand something if his livelihood depends on not understanding it.”

Chait continues:

If Obama could get hold of Klein’s mystery legislator and inform him of his budget offer, it almost certainly wouldn’t make a difference. He would come up with something – the cuts aren’t real, or the taxes are awful, or they can’t trust Obama to carry them out, or something.

This is why Obama can’t make a deal with Republicans
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BarNone said:
As far as that sequester stuff I heard in the beginning, I think you guys should've referenced Ezra Klein's article, it what a lot of my friends on the hill have said as well.
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good article, its actually worse than then what ezra said because obama isnt actually suggesting any tax increases, just closing loopholes and deductions
 
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BarNone said:
I'll be back later, but could you set up a write up that breaks it into time intervals like zerozero used to do. Also, I just did my random click around to make sure things were working like I usually do, but somebody's mic has an echo. I don't know who it is, might be VVD, but whenever you talk (at least the first 10 minutes in) there is an echo.

As far as that sequester stuff I heard in the beginning, I think you guys should've referenced Ezra Klein's article, it what a lot of my friends on the hill have said as well.
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I could write it here. I'd have to do that sometime tomorrow when I can listen to it. I can't edit the description on podomatic I already wrote.

I kinda fukked up the sequestration part I think because I didn't research it thoroughly. I haven't been keeping up with the news lately.
 
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:to: I missed it ...I chose the money..im weak brehs


next time gimme some notice and ill keep my sunday clear
 
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VictorVonDoom said:
I could write it here. I'd have to do that sometime tomorrow when I can listen to it. I can't edit the description on podomatic I already wrote.

I kinda fukked up the sequestration part I think because I didn't research it thoroughly. I haven't been keeping up with the news lately.
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Yeah, tomorrow is cool. I wouldn't have any idea of even when to guesttimate topic transitions.
 
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