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Curry favor with his members and the public and doesnt just concede raising taxes for the wealthiest of americans because i do believe that would then shift the onus back toward the white house for spending cuts but he just doesnt bring himself fully to say that which i think would trigger this kind of a reaction. >> i want to switch topics while i have you altogether. michigan and whats happening there. again, michael, you talked to people all day long. andrea mitchell noted it. i lived in illi...

Know it very well. the 47% comment. those are the things we just thought you should know. and time now for the "news nation" gut check. when michigan becomes the 24th right to work state as expected, it will deal a major blow to the labor union movement. today, uaw president bob king struck a defiant tone. these right-wing republicans are making a huge mistake. theyre waking up a sleeping giant. people are angry. >> but our first read team says it may be time for labor to look past the fight o...

Moments ago the michigan house approved a right to work bill. the state senate passed last week arks coringed to the associated press. republican governor rick snyder is expected to sign that bill into law. too would make michigan the 24th state to approve a right to work law, which exempts employees in a union workplace from joining or paying dues to that union. meanwhile, pro-union protesters are swarming the michigan capital building in lansing in scenes reminiscent of the battles over union ...

Editors had a better idea what republicans could do. they dont. if the house republicans follow the editors over the cliff, the only effect, im afraid, will be to turn a manageable reret in december into a panicked strategic route in january. "the new york times" points out that even if republicans agree to the presidents key demand that the top tax rates return to the clinton era level, it would only be a quarter of the $1.6 trillion the white house is demanding leaving battles and limits on de...

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Cetera, there is a huge incentive for some of the more junior members of congress to stand their ground. it doesnt have to do with the fiscal math of the country, but it has to do with the electoral math of the home districts. >> and i think that she has put the finger on the thing that we are missing when we taub abolk this, because we act as if congress governs at a body with national interests and held accountable to national constituencies, but no, if it is game theory, each one of them is f...

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