12/06/2009
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"Had the president prevailed yesterday, I think he would have gone that route."
"The bigger question to me right now, is the president seriously interested in working with the Democrats?"
"That's right. That's fundamentally the choice. Do you escalate in order to try to secure it, give it one more big try."
"Only 20 percent of the people in the country right now support putting more troops in there."