hard choice for most americans if the choice is creating economic growth and jobs or tolerating the results of many years of inequities in the tax code." but republicans are remembering their names are signed on grover norquist's anti-tax plan. this afternoon speaker john boehner's spokesman reacted to the white house's plan to pay for the bill saying "this tax increase on job creators is the kind of proposal both parties have opposed in the past. we remain eager to work together on ways to support job growth, but this proposal doesn't appear to have been offered in that bipartisan spirit." joining me now is the co-author of "that used to be us,: how america fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back." "the new york times" columnist and three-time pulitzer prize winner, thomas friedman. thanks for joining me tonight, tom. >> lawrence, thanks for having me. great to be here. >> the infrastructure portion, at least, of the president's jobs plan seems to present us