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Message said yesterday he believes the bill to extend just middle class tax rates would pass the house right now. >> i think it if it got to the floor it would carry. >> i spent a lot of time counting votes and looking around. >> but kevin mccarthy, the guy who is actually in charge of counting the votes on the republican side, made it clear that the public message from house republicans is sill no deal on tax rates. >> the president wants the rates to go up, that doesn't solve a problem, another year, another ten years answering your same questions. >> today "the wall street journal" editoria...

It exactly backwards. he's adamant about raising taxes, and he's dead wrong. >> what do you think of mr. boehner's idea, cap deductions and get $800 billion in revenues. does that make any sense? >> it's a tax increase. it's a bad idea. >> what kind of question was that to ask him? conservative blogger and editor of redstate.com erick erickson, he wrote a piece entitled "why john boehner must not fold on tax rate increases." it's a shame that republicans are playing into mr. obama's hands negotiating in public among themselves prematurely giving up on the tax issue. this is why i think it's an...

Hands negotiating in public among themselves prematurely giving up on the tax issue. this is why i think it's an easy case to make if you're on the right. we had an election. if you respect the election, you must assume they were paying attention when barack obama, the president, as you like to say appropriately, the president over and over in every speech said we've got to raise the tax rates on the top bracket. and everybody heard it, and everybody who voted for him knew they were voting for that and that was the majority. that would help the conservatives say this time i'll go with the vote...