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Do you see that as posturing, we re doing our best, or do you think the republicans are serious and feeling pressure about making a deal? i don t think they feel that much pressure. i think they feel they feel a little bit of pressure but feel more pressure from their base and from the right, and that is especially true in the house among the house caucus. the whole reason for that plan b fiasco, of course, that boehner pulled before christmas, was that his more conservative members wouldn t agree to any tax increase at all, even on incomes above $1 million a year. the pressure they feel is from the right, and believe me, you look down the list of the republicans in the house of representatives and try to look and see what percentage of the vote barack obama got in their districts. which is a good barometer of how much kind of pressure they might feel to moderate. barack obama got 38%, 42% in most of their districts. ....
From going up for everyone i would. it takes a democratic senate, a democrat president to cooperate. it makes sense to save the maximum of taxpayers. that s not a tax increase, that s making perm what are temporary tax cuts for the overwhelming majority of americans. if there isn t a deal on fiscal cliff or if it s narrow, if it covers the bare minimum and there s a lot of issues still to be worked out, there s been a lot of disagreement about what that means in the short term, just say through january or february. do you think it would be catastrophic? do you think that there it s not it s been overstated? it s not catastrophic. but i think the failure to reach a larger deal will be something democrats look back and regret. once the revenue issue s taken care of and it will be taken care of quickly we re on to the real issues where we have leverage and they don t, that s spending and entitlement issues. there s a sequester itself, which we ought to avoid but they ....
With. are you going to get it done? if so, how? i think we will. look, that s my position all along. i just think it s the smart thing to do when you ve got areas that you agree, to get them taken care of out of the way. honestly we re in a stronger position because we ve been talking about what the democrats don t want to talk about, reducing spending and dealing with entitlement reform. instead, you know we fought over something that was going to happen anyway. under current law, taxes are going up for every american, that s not acceptable outcome. if we protect 9 %, 99%, to me we ought to do it quickly and move on to issues, number one, really matter and, number two, divide us. would you vote affirmatively if the dividing line was $250,000? i m not going to deal with hypotheticals. i don t have any problem in protecting 98% of the people i m privileged to represent. i don t see that as a major sticking point. and i don t see it as a tax increase. taxes are going up under curre ....