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In. but through a number of things, and the administration said they were thinking about this, i'll give them some credit for it. if nothing happens this year everybody's taxes go up, not just the rich, because the bush tax cuts expire in their entirety, and there are cuts across the board. except the administration did exempt social security, medicare, and programs for poor people. now, there will still be cuts in the environment and transportation i don't want to see. but the military will be cut bad. so that now makes it clear to people, it's a zero sum game. when the issue was should we cu...

To give in and say no, no, don't cut the baby in half, i'll give it up. well, the right wing has been willing to cut the baby in half. the baby being government. they were willing to mass raitt it and we sometimes had to give in. but through a number of things, and the administration said they were thinking about this, i'll give them some credit for it. if nothing happens this year everybody's taxes go up, not just the rich, because the bush tax cuts expire in their entirety, and there are cuts across the board. except the administration did exempt social security, medicare, and programs for p...

Well, the right wing has been willing to cut the baby in half. the baby being government. they were willing to mass raitt it and we sometimes had to give in. but through a number of things, and the administration said they were thinking about this, i'll give them some credit for it. if nothing happens this year everybody's taxes go up, not just the rich, because the bush tax cuts expire in their entirety, and there are cuts across the board. except the administration did exempt social security, medicare, and programs for poor people. now, there will still be cuts in the environment and transpo...

Cht going to help small smart-up companies be more successful. these are the folks out there that hire a bunch of folks once they become successful, so we're changing that playing field again a little bit and i think it's going to really help and i think that the fact that we've got, not only senator toomey working on it together, but the minority leader, the president has endorsed this bill. i think it's a good bill. it came through the house almost unanimously. >> you can make that happen, some of these small things as you work with republicans, i have to ask you about the super committee. d...

Different ways if what we're trying to accomplish is broad based tax reform that will lead to greater economic activity, greater economic growth, job creation in this country and, therefore, more government revenue that would help us deal with this deficit issue. i think broad based tax reform ought to be part of our agenda up here. i hope that outside groups that have pledges in the past will recognize that. it's important that we do something on tax reform. >> i want to put up one final poll number for you to react to. it's approval rating on the oba. congressional republicans, a 20% approva...