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President of thinking he is the king? >> obama overplayed his hand. he thinks somebody made him king. >> right now all eyes are on the white house. the country doesnt need a victory lap. it needs leadership. >> the speakers proposal right now is still out of balance. its not me being stubborn or patterson. its just a matter of math. >> there have been no deals of this magnitude made in modern times in congress and forced on a reluctant president. >> the president continues to change the goal pos...

The death tax, wanting to have a new credit card with no credit limit to the president so he can additionally just borrow and spend and tax? you go through all of these things. it really never deals with the fumblefundamental problem in our country which is the spending. our problem is not that were taxed too little, we just continue to spend too much. >> he is asking that the debt ceiling that he has sole control over and how much the debt ceiling can be raised without having to get permission ...

The rich. thats what he campaigned on, and he wanted to raise the tax rates on the rich. speaker boehners proposal, as i understand it, that went over to the white house the other day which theyve pretty much called ridiculous offered the 800 billion in revenue, getting it from the same people. the rich people, but rather increasing the tax rates, what they were going to do is close some loopholes and deductions that apply only to the rich people, so that the rich were in effect paying $800 bill...

Incredible increase in change to the death tax, wanting to have a new credit card with no credit limit to the president so he can additionally just borrow and spend and tax? you go through all of these things. it really never deals with the fumblefundamental problem in our country which is the spending. our problem is not that were taxed too little, we just continue to spend too much. >> he is asking that the debt ceiling that he has sole control over and how much the debt ceiling can be raised ...

Generally while broadening the base. that is different from where the president is at now. is there currency to the republican argument that the president has moved the goal posts? >> whats happened alex, people actually crunched the numbers and do the math, and run through the tables, and it turns out that the math does not work unless you increase the top rates. one of the reasons speaker boehner has not spelled out how he would achieve the $800 billion. its one of the reasons that, you know, ...

Over the cliff with these tax rates going up on so many small businesses all absenter country. im meeting with the same business leaders that the president is meeting with, and you know, what theyre nel tellg me is theyre not hiring, theyre doing hiring freezes, not filling spots that are empty. and its all in anticipation of whats going to happen in terms of the tax increases, in terms it of the huge expenses of the obama health care law which is facing them as well, so im always optimistic, yo...

But zach, if you think you need more from president obama, whos going to make the ask? is anybody in pennsylvania saying, whats your strategy, obama team, for pennsylvania? i mean, the goal posts have definitely shifted right now, and it would seem to me that the president and the vice president are going to have to work this state a heck of a lot harder. what do you think? >> obama does have people assigned to voter i.d. in pennsylvania. we just havent seen much of the result. and, frankly, thi...

Situation. cookie-type of situation. i would note with hillary the barack obama campaign did the same thing in the primary upping the ante and moving the goal posts on tax returns. the harry reid accusation is so irresponsible and made up im not sure why anyone would believe once he gives his tax returns to harry reid hes not going to continue to make things up. i think the romney campaign has a pretty good argument on why you dont want to get into this. hes up there with a white board explainin...

Votes, too. this is going to put his race in play big-time. but zach, if you think you need more from president obama, whos going to make the ask? is anybody in pennsylvania saying, whats your strategy, obama team, for pennsylvania? i mean, the goal posts have definitely shifted right now, and it would seem to me that the president and the vice president are going to have to work this state a heck of a lot harder. what do you think? >> obama does have people assigned to voter i.d. in pennsylvani...

This is going to put his race in play big-time. but zach, if you think you need more from president obama, whos going to make the ask? is anybody in pennsylvania saying, whats your strategy, obama team, for pennsylvania? i mean, the goal posts have definitely shifted right now, and it would seem to me that the president and the vice president are going to have to work this state a heck of a lot harder. what do you think? >> obama does have people assigned to voter i.d. in pennsylvania. we just h...