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Conservatives who don't go to the church are the stingiest. i think your point is really about public policy, about the buffet rule that's being debated here in washington today. >> right. look, it's more than that i mean, when you say people tithe to their church, well, that's true, mitt romney is the best example of that but that money, okay, that goes, for example, when i go to church and i put it in the basket. that money is not going to buy cadillacs to pastors. it's catholic charities, it's going overseas. it's going to things that the catholic church does. i don't think superstitious re...

January. a poll shows americans are pretty much split on how much the president can do on lower gas price. slightly more registered voters say he could do more but it's clearly a statistical tie. wendell goler is at the white house. so he laid out an energy plan today, wendell, what is it. >> shep, the president wants more market regulators more cops on the beat. powerful computers, tighter limits on oil speculators and tougher penalty on those found guilty of breaking the rules. he doesn't claim it will lower the price of gasoline but will give people more confidence. >> we can't afford a sit...

That sort of correlation still exists in the usa of 2012. in fact, there's been some fascinating research on this. larry bartells looked at the effect of public opinion on legislation. he matched senate voting records with public opinion data but specifically public opinion da that that was broken down by income level. pe found quote, in almost every instance senators appear to be considerably more responsive of aflunts constituents while the opinion of con stitch wents of the bottom third income distribution have no apparent sfatist cal affects on their senators roll call votes. the things th...

Fairness has left the building. democrats aren't changing the lifestyle of the wealthiest americans of the buffet rule were to pass. you mean to tell me that people making over a million dollars a year couldn't shell out 30% of their income for the good of the country if as mitch mcconnell says we're in a crisis but republicans are changing the lifestyle of the middle class. middle class americans for the worse. that's why obama's super pac is hitting mitt romney with this ad in ohio and other swing states. >> mitt romney made millions off companies that went bankrupt while workers lost promis...

Mcconnell said the proposal was nothing more than a political gimmick by president obama. >> we're in a crisis here and sadly it's all politics all the time. for him, it's not about jobs or the economy. it's about his idea of fairness about imposing it on others. if we lose more jobs in the process, oh, well, so be it. >> this is who they are. did you hear that? he says, we're in a crisis, but the republicans want to give the wealthiest americans even more money. it's not just about president's idea of fairness. the buffet rule is about ending a loophole. and americans get it. it means people ...