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Republicans at their silly games in the house of representatives, he will humiliate them for playing those games. he will take every opportunity as he did this morning to show voters that house republicans are standing in the way of economic progress in this country and need to be removed from office in the next election and replaced with a congress that has not signed its brain away to rover norquist's anti-tax pledge. >> anyone who assigns some pledge to protect every single tax loophole so long as they live, they should be called out. they should have to defend that unfairness. explain why ...

What they say reflexively is class warfare which sets democrats up to say, obviously, well, wait a minute, the top ceos in this country that have been raking in $10 million, $20 million each and are laying off american workers, the ratio of corporate profits to waging that has not been as high as it's been now since before the great depression. who is actually waging class warfare? it is people at the top in control of the biggest corporations on wall street. they have been doing it. that's what democrats -- not the president -- that's what many democrats are going to say because the republica...

Especially tax cuts in the president's jobs bill. so the president has now made it clear if he cannot beat the republicans at their silly games in the house of representatives, he will humiliate them for playing those games. he will take every opportunity as he did this morning to show voters that house republicans are standing in the way of economic progress in this country and need to be removed from office in the next election and replaced with a congress that has not signed its brain away to rover norquist's anti-tax pledge. >> anyone who assigns some pledge to protect every single tax loo...

Extraordinary wealth, that that kind of a pledge, tieing their hands, is constitutionally part of their responsibility. well, most americans say, no, i don't want a representative who is going to tie his hands and take a pledge to somebody i don't even know. i want somebody who's going to represent me and my values. and the president is using that and that kind of bind the republicans are in against them. >> quickly, professor, before you go, grade the president's rollout today and this particular circumstance with this bill. >> well, i give him an a-minus. the only reason not an "a," i'd like...

Say, reflexively, because they've all taken this pledge they're not going to raise taxes on the rich or anybody. what they say reflexively is class warfare which sets democrats up to say, obviously, well, wait a minute, the top ceos in this country that have been raking in $10 million, $20 million each and are laying off american workers, the ratio of corporate profits to waging that has not been as high as it's been now since before the great depression. who is actually waging class warfare? it is people at the top in control of the biggest corporations on wall street. they have been doing it...