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You don't have to change the tax table. so you don't have to start with drawing money from people's paychecks. i think there are ways of going over the cliff and make it more like i against lawrence o'donnell says a curb on the street. i think the payroll tax is really difficult issue. because a lot of -- and liberals are torn about it because on the one hand, i kind of like the idea of goosing the economy and letting people keep another year of their payroll tax cut, but we're worried about the long-term for social security. it's a tough, tough issue. >> all right. ruth conniff, e. jechlt dio...

But the republicans, i think, have signaled very clearly that they know that if they spend the rest of the year sounding like they're just fighting to save very rich people from modest tax increases, they know that's a political loser. >> all right. here's speaker boehner on the chances of cutting a deal. here it is. >> if you've looked closely at what the president had to say and look closely at what i have had to say, you know, there are no barriers here to sitting down and beginning to work through this process. >> ruth conniff, i really don't know what that means. do you? >> it makes me ne...

To show up for him. >> ruth conniff, the president's campaign has had a running theme for months on end, very consistent about being the advocate and the fighter for the middle class. there was quite a middle class fight in wisconsin over the last two years. are those workers there with the president? is this what's going to put the president over the top? >> i think there's no question that wisconsin progressivism is going to be a key ingredient in this election and that the president is speaking very directly to wisconsin progressives and when he says sometimes you're a little disappointed b...

About his support for t.a.r.p., the auto loan, and his request for stimulus money. next, ruth conniff and john nichols on paul ryan's problem with the truth. and out with the song hitting mitt romney for sticking his dog on the roof of a car. ♪ >> tonight, one of the founding members, jerry gasol debuts his new single live on "the ed show." ♪ [ male announcer ] this is anna, her long day teaching the perfect swing begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye.

This guy has begged, begged by people in his district to vote the other way. they were out today and he still keeps going free trade in washington, but fair trade when he goes out to the country. >> ruth, i found that interesting the other day when mitt romney said, well, he's on my campaign. in other words, clarifying, you know, you better pay attention to what i'm saying and not so much, you know,ryan. what did you make of that? >> i think it's kind of an interesting problem for mitt romney. here he's got paul ryan who's a very exciting candidate for vice president for the republican base an...