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Do you think -- do you sense, from your reporting, are we just having people circle each other or are their feet in stone? >> i think there's still some areas where people can move and get to the right place. but, you know, the two things i just keep thinking about is i think the business community, i think, what steve says is exactly right. seems like from the outside what they want more than anything is certain certainty. just moment to moment and minute to minute, it's crisis to crisis. that's an atmosphere not conducive toward optimal economic activity. this notion of trying to get to long...

Go up for the wealthiest americans but at least one democrat disagrees with that and he's not alone. congressman gerald connelly of virginia joins us. congressman, why break with your party and why disagree with the president on this one? >> well, i respctfully disagree with the rationale. we're at a very fragile point in the economic recovery right now, and i think we have to leave well enough alone for now. i don't think this economy can take any kind of severe hit. when you allow the tax cuts to expire on a relatively small but highly influential group in the economy, it can affect confiden...