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The cutting question. it s christmas eve and the republicans are saying, we re not going to let you get a bill through the senate. you re not getting the 60 votes, you re not getting the vote on the other body unless you give us a full tax cut. what would you say if you were sitting in the white house? no way, jose? i d say no way, jose. i d say we should keep the senate and house in session. continuing again showing them that we re for extending the tax cuts. and republicans eventually flinch come january because in the end, 70% of the public knows that in the end, republicans are there for the rich. they re the party that always protects the wealthiest people in our county. do a showdown and say to the country, we re not going to let the republicans hold this middle class tax hostage on behalf of the rich. and eventually, i think the republicans give in on this. yeah, you re right about the rich. people think the republicans are ....
But you voted for t.a.r.p. or you made a deal with somebody on health care that looked dicey. it s all t.a.r.p. yeah. or you made a deal with someone on health care that looked dicey. a weird way that people are engaged in politics now. they find one way and then they obsess with it like a tooth abscess. that s all they talk or think or feel is that one thing you did. yeah and i hate to say it i agree with david on this one. the institutional hurpdels that usually exist for grassroots candidates to run for office have been sort of leveled downean if a lot of these tea party candidates went in 2010 it s going to incentivize a lot more of them to run in 2012 and i was at a briefing with david plouff. he said if you re a moderate republican thinking for running for office in 2012 you d have to have your head examined. you d likely lose. here s the cutting question. you can go sam you sam, first. how does the republican party build itself as a governing party a majority party wh ....
Questions. you want the president to sit and negotiate, negotiate, negotiate and get nowhere when you ve got a republican leader in the senate that says his major goal in the next two years is to see obama not get re-elected and when they are not willing to move off on their tax cut for the rich at all for millionaires and billionaires. i think the president i m fine with him talking for a couple of days and trying to work this out, but i want to see this middle class tax cut extended and i want to see us expire for higher income people. who doesn t want the middle class tax cut extension? you re on the side of the angels with that baby. my question to you and this is the cutting question. it s christmas eve and the republicans are saying, we re not going to let you get a bill through the senate. you re not getting the 60 votes, you re not getting the vote on the other body unless you give us a full tax cut. what would you say if you were sitting in the white house? ....