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Come out with a lot of steps toward republicans, including the notion of chain cpi, immediately dismissed by john boehner. listen to fox news neil cavuto and john boehner and how he reacted to the presss proposal. >> rejects it out of hand because the president includes tax hikes in the deal. keep in mind, the tax hikes the president is talking about were and are the same hikes speaker boehner was negotiating a little more than a year ago. closing tax loopholes and credits that would make for a ...

Was negotiating little more than a year ago. closing tax loopholes and credits that would make for a cleaner tax code and now, coupled with the first ever shot at reining in out of control entitlements. im not saying the presidents plan is perfect. it is not. or that its constantly falling back on still more tax hikes is promising. certainly not. for anyone to deny its a big change in at least his thinking, theyre wrong it is. and for boehner to just call it essentially a waste of time, well, it...

First post-election press conference what he thought should happen in this country given the results of the election almost like he thought he was speaking in the context of president-elect romney and smaller, simpler, smarter branded transition. >> by working together and creating a fairer simpler cleaner tax code, moving to fairer simpler system energized by a simpler cleaner fairer tax code -- >> simpler fairer simpler, john boehner at that press conference congratulated president obama for b...

Some but probably not as much as president obama and speaker would like. president obama made this offer on the trillions of dollars in spending cuts and tax increases due to hit at the end of the year whats known as the fiscal cliff. >> there is an alternative to going over the fiscal cliff in whole or in part. it involves making real changes to the financial structure of entitlement programs and reforming our tax code to cush special loopholes and deductions by working together to create a fai...

so he is running counter to conventional wisdom in that people still blame president bush for the current state of the economy. so i dont think its -- while it looks like a great number, republicans ought to be jumping in and saying, oh, wow, the president is really vulnerable. when you look inside the numbers, he is less vulnerable than that would imply. >> lets take a look at some of the notable republicans who have said no just for the month of may for running for the gop election. ...

Ideoljically republicans dont want to raise the taxes. you can do it phased in over time so you get a better tax code. who needs a complicated tax code like we have? dont we want corporations bringing the jobs back here instead of booking their profits abroad? there is con kens mosensus movie tax code reform. we need to rein in some of our spending but also deal with the revenue side, a more reasonable and reforms to tax code. but it means some people will pay more taxes as well. if you make it ...

lot of individual reasons for individual candidates who decided not to run. but i have to tell you, you look at those figures and you say, whoa, the president is in for a rough reelection ride. should he get it simply because if that many people think the economy is poor, that certainly is not going to help him at the voting booth. but heres the rub. they dont actually blame president obama for the economy. 55% of americans blame george bush. just 30% blame president obama. so he is ru...

First post election press conference what he thought should happen in this country given the results of the election almost like he thought he was speaking in the context of president-elect romney and smaller simpler smaller branded transition. >> by working together and creating a fairer simpler cleaner tax code, moving to fairer simpler system energized by a simpler cleaner fairer tax code -- >> simpler fairer simpler, john boehner at that press conference congratulated president obama for bea...