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Tag associated with the other 2% for people who as the president said throughout his campaign don't need them and weren't asking for them and as you know and as we all know we didn't just walk into an economic crisis and financial crisis but also a fiscal crisis over the ten years between 2000 and -- over the eight years between 2000 and 2008 or 2001 to 2009. you saw the $237 billion clinton surplus turn into a deficit by the policies of the last administration. so we have a problem. we know we have a problem. we believe middle class families cannot take a $2,000 tax increase at this time. >> ...

President bush and the g.o.p. for the currently problems that we're in, take a listen. >> keep in mind, when al gore left the white house, he was kind enough to leave george bush a check for $237 billion surplus for that year, with a projected surplus of 5 trillion dollars over the next ten yearsment they waged two wars, one necessary and one not. without paying for one single penny of those wars. >> look, folks, in addition, we inherited a foreign policy that was in disarray. with doubts about our ability to lead the world coming from our adversaries, but our friends as well. that your plan f...

Watching over our financial institutions and companies are scared because they don't know either how it is going to affect them and therefore how it affects you. if it hurts the banks, they pass it on to the consumer. joe biden said we don't know. it will take time and lot more government regulation. >> there seems to be agreement that the government could take control of the next leman brothers issue. the government could come in and try to stave off that massive infection for the could you want rye. vice-president joe biden laid out the time line. this is what the obama administration is goo...

We put people to work. we had the economy booming. we left a surplus for george bush when he came to office, a surplus of $237 billion. >> senator, in all of your years, decades i might add in the congress in, the senate, to your knowledge, has the democratic party ever filibustered a jobs bill the way the republicans are now? >> never. i can unequivocally tell you we've never done that. i'm telling you, these republicans, they're saying look, we can't have unemployment benefits because it increases the deficit. but we can keep the tax breaks for the wealthy even though that increases the defi...

Remember, what was the budget surplus, remember that record, when 2001 when liu left the job at omb. $237 billion big puns and that's a surplus under clinton as in money saved, not spent. jack liu's $237 billion budget cred, seems like only yesterday, big number. up next, when white house press secretary robert gibbs said the democrats could lose the hard he may have been touting his own theory. what gibbs said may be to real support. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] he's sweet, even with 1/3 less sugar than soda. kool-aid delivering more smiles per gallon. ...