fiscal and spending cuts and try to get a deal done. his legacy depends on it. the country s future depends on it and bipartisanship requires it. martha: very likely, monica, from the republican side there will be people who say look will absolutely not sign anything that includes tax increase. i don t understand why that isn t translated into tax reform? why don t republicans say, don t give us tax increases but we ll give you a lot of revenue in the form of tax reform. we are willing to get rid of loopholes and you will see revenue rise because of the tax reform you re willing to do? why don t we hear more of that? that is the argument they should be making. that is one of my criticisms of governor romney during the campaign he should have been making that argument in a much more profound and powerful way. every time since jfk through ronald reagan, through george w. bush when you lowered marginal tax rates you have more revenue coming into the treasury to deal with this, to deal w
what we saw this week from the democrats, you talk about the white house. the democrats flew over to the white house to say, what are you talking about? you re willing to make significant cuts in terms of medicare, medicaid, social security, you are putting our political fortunes at risk? this is not what we want. you saw move on, you saw aarp. saw afl-cio. sdiu, all engaged their members to absolutely zoom in on congress with phone calls and lobbying to say stop the president from giving up everything to the republicans. one last point here. i m amazed, you heard the speaker of the house say, you know, we have moved the goal post in terms of a president who didn t want to make significant cuts who is now willing to make significant cuts. why don t republicans say, you know, we have won this fight. it s time to move on and not push the country over the edge? that s one view. we re going to take a break here and we re going to continue the conversation. one of the interesting things t
making a deal on any circumstance because they don t want added revenue, they don t want the tax hike and what we saw this week from the democrats, you talk about the white house. the democrats flew over to the white house to say, what are you talking about? you re willing to make significant cuts in terms of medicare, medicaid, social security, you are putting our political fortunes at risk? this is not what we want. you saw move on, you saw aarp. saw afl-cio. sdiu, all engaged their members to absolutely zoom in on congress with phone calls and lobbying to say stop the president from giving up everything to the republicans. one last point here. i m amazed, you heard the speaker of the house say, you know, we have moved the goal post in terms of a president who didn t want to make significant cuts who is now willing to make significant cuts. why don t republicans say, you know, we have won this fight. it s time to move on and not push the country over the edge? that s one view.