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$1500 if you make $75,000. $2,000 if you make $100,000. robert riesh is a professor of micks at the university of california berkeley. professors, a lot of pain across the board when we talk about what's happening in this country. a lot of pain for the middle class if the tax cuts expire. give me your general impression first of what the republicans are doing here and what do you think their end game is in this fight? >> thomas, this is another example of brickmanship. we've seen this again and again this past year. in fact, the past four years. republicans particularly the radical right tea p...

Ceiling, you get a zero for the year from the tea party. if you don't vote to raise the debt ceiling you score 100 and you're a hero. i wish our tearful house speaker would just show some compassion for american tax payers and our children that he and mr. layian have already surrendered to president obama. it's a cowardly act of treason against coming generations and we may be able to give boehner really something to cry about in 2012. >> joining me now labor secretary during the clinton administration robert riesh. thank you for joining me tonight. >> good evening, lawrence. >> i don't know i...

If you don't vote to raise the debt ceiling you score 100 and you're a hero. i wish our tearful house speaker would just show some compassion for american tax payers and our children that he and mr. layian have already surrendered to president obama. it's a cowardly act of treason against coming generations and we may be able to give boehner really something to cry about in 2012. >> joining me now labor secretary during the clinton administration robert riesh. thank you for joining me tonight. >> good evening, lawrence. >> i don't know if you had a monitor to see who actually appeared at the n...

The holidays they got an earful from their constituents about the paul ryan plan to get rid of medicare and turn it into a voucher program. they don't like that. nobody likes it. i think that boehner is backing away from that. >> big surprise, medicare is popular. i don't know why their polls didn't tell them that already. >> the odd thing, lawrence, is that one year ago republicans remember they were claiming that the democrats' health care bill was going to wreck medicare and destroy medicare. they were using medicare to clobber the democrats and to think that the americans have such a short...

These fellows talked about abortion. >> in washington, d.c., they say marriage will be defined however we feel like defining it. no, it won't. it should be defined as between a man and woman. >> they felt kind of small. >> moral tee applies across the board. >> newt is carrying a lot of personal baggage. >> i expect him to show up in sandals. >> good evening. more than three weeks, thousands gathered in madison, wisconsin, protesting scott walker's so-called budget repair bill. the movement has reached beyond wisconsin state lines and has created a movement that robert riesh now calls the peop...