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I think the real issue here in terms of voting behavior is so little of what President Barack Obama has promised has been able to achieve bipartisan support.

I think there's a 50/50 chance this bill passes. There is still a lot of Democrat opposition to it particularly in the House.

But I don't think anybody will be able to attribute that to Barack Obama's stimulus policies, which are increasingly becoming old news and unsuccessful news.

These dreams are turning into a nightmare for this country.

We're not solving problems.

So, why do more of what didn't work in the first place?

If James wants to call progress 9.8 percent unemployment, $1.2 trillion deficits, and no end to them in sight, then I don't think any Democratic candidate is going to ask James to do their race in 2010.

the job of people who are in office is to solve problems. And I think the biggest problem we have is, President Obama's economic policies have made things worse and left us with such a huge, massive debt, a huge growing deficit, that we're…

Well, they're not even going to be able to call the first one a stimulus, if it doesn't stimulate anything, which it hasn't.

But the one thing that ought to be done, though, Anderson, it is -- it is the right move. It is the compassionate move, with unemployment at 9.8 percent, to extend unemployment benefits for additional time.

No, my option is win the war, Paul. That's what I want to do.

No, my option is win the war. That's what I want to do. I want to win this war and protect our crucial and let the CIA do its job within the law.

Of course it is. I think it's a recognition of how President Bush made a lot of unpopular decisions.

Bill Clinton's head of the CIA said it was wrong to release those memos, because you're teaching al Qaeda operatives exactly what our techniques are.

And then, if they decide it was, then they have got a very careful decision to make about how far and extensive do you prosecute people.

Well, number one, we didn't release any Clinton memos. Clinton didn't release any previous President Bush top-secret memos. The problem that I have with all of this is, now that the White House is doing this to its predecessor, what will…

No, I don't think he was lying.

President Obama is entirely within his rights not to pursue the Bush policies. But what was gained by releasing the Bush documents?

Well, that shouldn't change over time. Either this war was or was not necessary. Just because it didn't go well, it didn't go as well as hoped for or planned, that shouldn't change someone's position on whether it was or was not necessary.

Scott is wrong. He's wrong on substance. And he wasn't in a position to know, because his jurisdiction wasn't over those issues.

I'm addressing the most important allegations in the book, which is that the president, in the run-up to the war, used propaganda and manipulated information. My point is Scott is wrong. He's wrong on substance.

I think John McCain's biggest problem is, he always looks angry.

If Barack Obama wins Iowa or is even very close in Iowa, I think a lot of independents are going to go Democrat.

There's such an anger against Republicans and George Bush among the Democrat base... that's why they want Hillary.