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Health care and job training and investments in bronson and duane and andrea and david and put folks back to work. this is just common sense. understand this is not a redistribution argument. this is not about taking from rick rich people to give to poor people. it is about us together making investments in our country so everybody has a fair shot. that will make all of us better off. now, on monday nearly every republican in the senate voted to block what's called the buffet rule. think about this. the buffet rule says if you make a million dollars or more, i am not saying you have a million ...

It's not a regular old tax day. it's tax day during an election year and that means both partie would like to use this moment to make their own party's points about tax rates and money. that's why senate democrats brought up the buffet rule yesterday. the buffet rule would have meant anyone making more than a million bucks a year use loopholes to pay lower taxes. senate republicans filibustered the proposed change. they blocked it even though it had enough votes to pass a majority vote. a majority of senators, 51 voted for the buffet rule but not enough to override the filibuster. it not only ...

We're not dealing with tax fairness. we saw the buffet rule rejected. we're making it so that people can bring their polar bear trophies from their hunting expeditions into the country. that's what we did in congress today? >> what? >> yeah. they changed some parks. they proposed some park changes that would allow for roads to be put through public and parklands and that you could bring a polar bear trophy into the country. they're banned now because they're endangered, but that's kind of what we're doing today. >> we have millions of people out of work and this is what the republicans are foc...

His candidate will go down flailing around badly. >> i got the same impression as well. one of those polls that you are including is the abc "washington post" poll. that poll, they had 11% more democrats they sample than republicans. >> sure. >> which i think that is certainly outlier based on the demographics. all right, so the president strategy is he can't run on his record. so he is going to go out and attack. it seems like every time he immerses himself the war on women backfireed, sandra fluke backfireed. all the attacks that the president has been making, they don't seem to be working. ...

Tax day. happy tax day. it's not a regular old tax day. it's tax day during an election year and that means both parties wo would like to use this moment to make their own party's points about tax rates and money. that's why senate democrats brought up the buffet rule yesterday. the buffet rule would have meant anyone making more than a million bucks a year use loopholes to pay lower taxes. senate republicans filibustered the proposed change. they blocked it even though it had enough votes to pass a majority vote. a majority of senators, 51 voted for the buffet rule but not enough to override ...