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Elements of the norquist pledge is it doesn't allow them to even close tax loopholes because that would raise tax revenue. the president is able now to identify them as protecting every single one of those tax loopholes. corporate jets. whatever it is. in the code. they have to defend every one of those against the president in this. >> they have to not only defend every one of them but defend the principle to take a pledge to grover norquist who is not elected, somebody who has a very special particular interest in this case in protecting the rich from having more taxes that take away a littl...

Making $50,000 a year is paying more than that? paying a higher rate? they ought to have to answer for that. and if their pledge to keep that kind of unfairness in place, they should remember the last time i checked the only pledge that really matters is the pledge we take to uphold the constitution. we're already hearing the usual defenders of these kinds of loopholes saying this is just class warfare. i reject the idea that asking a hedge fund manager to pay the same tax rate as a plumber or teacher is class warfare. >> that is not the talk of a president who is trying to thread the needle o...

A joke on and about republicans. of course, republicans will not support the proposals in the president's jobs bill that they used to support in the past. because now that the president has made those proposals, obama proposals, republicans have to be against them. even for they used to be for them, especially the tax cuts in the president's jobs bill. so the president has now made it clear that 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 vot...

Back on the class warfare line today. i think they're seeing the same polls that everyone else sees. they know that the public is on the president's side on the taxation issues. there were other areas to go at, i think, in the specificity of what the president released today for the republicans to maybe try to maneuver, but it seems to me that they fell into the president's trap perfectly since they're so reflexive on taxation that any mention of a change of taxes sent them right into class warfare mode. >> i think it was a trap. the interesting thing, lawrence, is that you had these polls sho...

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