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Senate in nebraska told politico, kerrey believes the $250,000 limit is too low but is evaluating how specific proposals would affect the ballot. claire mchaskel said she would look at it to reign in the deficit. by the way, the president made sure to argue that the bush tax cuts never worked. >> we were told that it would lead to more jobs and higher incomes for everybody and prosperity would start at the top and then trickle down. what happened? instead of creating more jobs, we had the slowest job growth in half a century. >> one of the reasons the white house is sticking to the 250 and did...

He's going to have to make this a choice, not a referendum on his first term. democrats acknowledge that publicly. rick: the speaker in the interview asked about the president's opposition to the paul ryan budget plan. >> if the president doesn't like that budget where is his budget? his budget failed on the floor of the house, zero to 414. not one democrat or one republican voted for the president's budget. why? because he wasn't serious about dealing with america's problems. rick: that vote that the speaker was referring to was largely considered to be a political maneuver on part of republi...

At the top. not only nationally but in florida and south carolina after the allegations. >>dave: that is very interesting. a "wall street journal" poll asks who do you think is the likely nominee for the republicans and voters say romney overwhelmingly: 45-13 percent for herman cain. but the polls show him right there at the top. has he turned the page from the scandal? >> well, cot is right, it is mit romney and not mitt romney and right now not mitt romney is getting 75 percent of vote and i add that 25 percent want romney and 45 percent think he will be the nominee sew there is a quarter th...

That 1%. i'm generally in favor of the idea that the rich should pay somewhat more but to really deal with the deficit gap we are talking about, that alone just numerically is not going to be enough. >> joining us now from washington is ben stein. he is an economist and the author of the new book "what would ben stein do?" so let me ask you that very question, ben stein. you would actually raise taxes on the highest earners, right? >> oh, yes, by quite a lot and then i would raise taxes on the ones below them by a fair amount and the ones below them by a fair amount. i would have the governmen...

That 1%. i'm generally in favor of the idea that the rich should pay somewhat more but to really deal with the deficit gap we are talking about, that alone just numerically is not going to be enough. >> joining us now from washington is ben stein. he is an economist and the author of the new book "what would ben stein do?" so let me ask you that very question, ben stein. you would actually raise taxes on the highest earners, right? >> oh, yes, by quite a lot and then i would raise taxes on the ones below them by a fair amount and the ones below them by a fair amount. i would have the governmen...