seconds. the ad wasn t effective and it was too combative, much to negative. and it don t make the case. the public does not respond to class warfare arguments. they have to hear how they have been hurt, not how government spending has been cut. we have a second example. this was created by larry mccarthy on the republican side for ad the creation. this one is totally out of the norm. to my surprise, you are going to watch both the republican and the democratic line climb. let s take a look. americans even though this country s $14 trillion in debt, washington raised the debt ceiling 10 times in the last 10 years. each time it s like another spending hit. you are the junkies. 41 cents of every dollar you spend is borrowed from places like china. china is like the dealer.
and you ve got 13 months to get these people off of unemployment that you held hostage. you ve got two years to create jobs in this country instead of spending that money on your luxury items. ron is full of it. this is an attempt to just allow rich people to maintain their 100,000, 300,000, 400,000. create jobs or shut the hell up. and the american people ought to be in the streets screaming, not at president obama so much because i m going to tell you, you guys sat here and held you held the poorest of the poor hostage. you played chicken with poor people s lives. and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. well, have i too much respect for my friend to get into class warfare arguments. the fact of the matter is the last three tax cuts that we have seen in the last 50 years, 1961,
and you ve got 13 months to get these people off of unemployment that you held hostage. you ve got two years to create jobs in this country instead of spending that money on your luxury items. ron is full of it. this is an attempt to just allow rich people to maintain their 100,000, 300,000, 400,000. create jobs or shut the hell up. and the american people ought to be in the streets screaming, not at president obama so much because i m going to tell you, you guys sat here and held you held the poorest of the poor hostage. you played chicken with poor people s lives. and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. รง well, have i too much respect for my friend to get into class warfare arguments. the fact of the matter is the last three tax cuts that we have seen in the last 50 years, 1961, 1981 under reagan and bush wait, ed, it s interesting.
this is an attempt to just allow rich people to maintain their 100,000, 300,000, 400,000. create jobs or shut the hell up. and the american people ought to be in the streets screaming, not at president obama so much because i m going to tell you, you guys sat here and held you held the poorest of the poor hostage. you played chicken with poor and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. well, have i too much respect for my friend to get into class warfare arguments. the fact of the matter is the last three tax cuts that we have seen in the last 50 years, 1961, 1981 under reagan and bush wait, ed, it s interesting. ed, let me answer. let me answer the question, ed. you guys both try to demagogue the issue. i will answer the question. i think the fact of the matter. you re going to listen to me. i want to know why. the fact of the matter is that why the republicans used unemployment as a bargaining
extension across the board of all of the 01 and 03 tax cuts and as far as the political calculation, you, yourself know, chris that class warfare arguments almost never works in american politics. the dnc is working overboard right now, trying to turn this into a referendum on class warfare, but it s just not working. all you need for proof is to get out of washington and come to a place like florida, where i am now, and look at a candidate like alex sink, the democratic nominee for governor in florida. she came out for an extension of all the bush tax cuts. so it s not just republicans. a lot of prominent democrats agree with this position as well. let me go back let me go back to steve. steve, why do you think what s going to with boehner? because he understands