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he did. want to take sides on other ohio questions, one on health care, perhaps. hes a flip-flopper should have been more careful. his critics suggest romney was noncommittal not because he was confused, but because polls now show a majority of ohioans oppose the measure and ohio will be a critical fall 2012 battleground. to those critics, a change of expediency on par with romneys explanation of why he fired for lawn care company. now, romneys advantage in this race is real, very re...

Couple or single. >> i get it confused with the obama tax all the time. and if its single or i mean, he has a problem that he wants to go after the rich. and thats a problem for the republican base, and its also, a problem economically, because even if you collected all of this money from the rich, you wouldnt solve our deficit problem and you would probably hamper growth because these are the people with the money to invest. >> james, this suggests to me were going to see, particularly rick per...

more to the middle might have been able to get something through congress. once he started talking about a big tax increase on the rich, theres no way republicans were going to go for that. i think this has become a political debate not a debate about what we can pass right now. thats a problem when you have 14 million unemployed people. >> didnt the summer teach the white house there was going to be no consensus and trying to do a deal, trying actually to move to the center is what th...

moammar gadhafi? ill talk to an expert in the middle eastern region. plus 4:00 eastern, well go over fortune magazines top 40 under 40 list. "your $$$$$" starts right now. president obama on the road this week pushing his jobs plan but is he fighting for your job or campaigning for his own. welcome to "your $$$$$." im christine romans, ali velshi is off. chrystia freelander and economist stephen moore. the president traveling through battle grounds on a key trip, wants to push cong...

Reagan came in and look what he did in his eight years by lowering the taxes to historical data is in favor of that. >> i dont know. i dont know that we would have had the deficit problem that george w. bush left for president obama. had he not had his 1.4 trillion-dollar tax cut for rich. >> bill: supply side vs. tax side thats the old republic, democratic debate. final question for you. >> okay. >> bill: if you had to bet today its going to be president obama vs. >> i think its probably going ...

Reagan came in and look what he did in his eight years by lowering the taxes to historical data is in favor of that. >> i dont know. i dont know that we would have had the deficit problem that george w. bush left for president obama. had he not had his 1.4 trillion-dollar tax cut for rich. >> bill: supply side vs. tax side thats the old republic, democratic debate. final question for you. >> okay. >> bill: if you had to bet today its going to be president obama vs. >> i think its probably going ...

Reagan came in and look what he did in his eight years by lowering the taxes to historical data is in favor of that. >> i dont know. i dont know that we would have had the deficit problem that george w. bush left for president obama. had he not had his 1.4 trillion-dollar tax cut for rich. >> bill: supply side vs. tax side thats the old republic, democratic debate. final question for you. >> okay. >> bill: if you had to bet today its going to be president obama vs. >> i think its probably going ...

Very crude number to whack at defense. and that is bad policy. the other thing is, we really ought to be doing is looking at what is driving our fundamental deficit problem. medium term, long term, everyone knows it is the big entitlement programs and they are growing as unsustainable rate. >>neil: can you address any or even part of that ahead of the november 23rd deadline? >>guest: it certainly is possible, and i sendly hope we will, we will not have made significant progress on our goal unles...

In the first six months of the year the number one issue that congress focused on in the middle of two wars, huge unemployment problem, huge deficit problem. the number unissue was the bank swipe fee issue. why was that? if you dance around with $19 billion on the table and act like youre coy and not sure which way to go, money begins to rain down on top of your campaign. so the whole agenda of congress gets driven by the issues that will raise the most money. you wonder why we dont pay attentio...

And help pay for what medicare doesnt. call this toll-free number now... martha: brand-new polls this morning show that americans dont believe that washington will be able to reign in the spending at all before the presidential election. according to rasmussen reports 73% say they think that is not likely that anything gets done before the election. 22% say they think it is likely or somewhat likely. pollster scott rasmussen joins us this mourn. nice to have you here. >> great to be with you. ma...