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"wall street journal." so grover, rome had high tax rates. >> not always. at first for about 400 years they had no real direct internal taxes because they looted their neighbors. >> were not advocating that, right? >> we have talked to canadians. even that wasnt enough. so they started having dramatically higher taxes. the amount of money spent on armies. it cost more perhaps than they were able to extract. >> they started with tariffs. >> they had tariffs, augustus brought us the first death ta...

What he will accept in these fiscal cliff debates? >> one of the great norquist tricks is a mass amnesia spell over washington. people have forgotten he laundered money for jack abram. he helped tom delay with a kfrnlts street prospect. he was registered lobbyist for fannie mae. he was a tobacco industry hack throughout the 90s. folks have forgotten that. they take him pretty seriously. >> we used a stuffed grover doll on this set at one point. we are trying to take him as not seriously as possi...

The reason that republicans are against these tax increases. it is rich people. so grover becomes the rich person or the person who is a representative of these rich folks. do we need to stay focused on where the real pressure is coming from. >> when norquist goes out and says, we need to cut government, cut subsidies but dont touch any of the tax credits, here is what he is really saying. whats the difference between a $1 million oil tax credit and a $1 million oil tax subsidy, nothing. they ar...

Little bit at this point would be great. thats where we get all these crazy figures about 93% of the wealth that was created over the last four years went to 91% of the people. the other 9% was left for the other 7% of the people. >> for everybody else? >> thats right. thats because of marginal tax rates. boehner doesnt have the votes on a marginal tax rate. >> the huge support for the president is when we look at public opinion polling, we see that 60% of americans support raising taxes on inco...

>> we need to be strong conservatives. >> are you concerned about the number of republicans who have started to move away from their pledge with grover norquist? >> well, this is what i would say. is that pledge that these members of congress signed, the pledge is not to grover norquist, the pledge is to their constituents. grover norquist is doing nothing but shining the light on them willing to break their promise. and weve seen what happens when somebody makes a promise, you know, george bush...

Had sign added had ed his pledge voted for my amendments." what coburn has written there is absolutely true. so grover, calling it a lie, is outright crazy. first of all, lobbyists, which is what grover is, dont call senators liars ever! even when theyre lying, because that just makes every other senator wonder when youre going to call him or her a liar. once a lobbyist has called a senator a liar, that lobbyist can never do business with that senator again. never persuade that senator to do any...

Reductions, and yet all by 6 of the 41 senate republicans who had siaddehad signed his pledge my amendments." what coburn has written there is absolutely true. so grover, calling it a lie, is outright crazy. first of all, lobbyists, which is what grover is, dont call senators liars ever! even when theyre lying, because that just makes every other senator wonder when youre going to call him or her a liar. once a lobbyist has called a senator a liar, that lobbyist can never do business with that s...