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You. thank you. >> ezra klein is our resident wonk, and he has a wonk question for you. so im going to hand thing over to ezra. >> hey, good evening. >> governor daniels speech was mostly about debt. and one of the points he made is that the debt has run up quite a bit under president obama. "the new york times" recently did an analysis, an apples to apples of debt under the two presidents from their policies, not the economic policies around them. the bush tax cuts versus the stimulus. they fou...

And that is that all tax bills must begin in the house of representatives, which is now controlled by republicans. so much of what the president was talking about tonight involves changes to the tax code. how does the president think he can get that kind of change initiated in the republican house of representatives? >> because i think its what the vast majority of the american people want. theyre calling for equity, theyre calling for fairness. theyre saying that, look, just as we saw tonight, ...

Old-time midwest bob taff conservatism, except for some of the bromides and idiomatic crap he threw in there to make people happy. there was a sear yoisness to this speech, and now i understand why people like mitch daniels. >> chris, i could not disagree with you more about the speech. >> why, whats wrong? >> i dont have time to go into that. i think mitch daniels was there to say, the world is on fire, be afraid, run to republicans. i mean, hes talking about america as a country that is, what ...

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