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You pushed through healthcare reform that's about to be overturned by the supreme court. that was the president's decision. >> everyone in america knows that if you were trying to run a small business as i have run a small business, you look at the rising costs of healthcare and that is a noose around the neck of small business. something had to be done. you also look at the hole that we were in, 750,000 jobs being lost a month. trying to climb out of ha hole. this is about trust fund babies and people who work for a living. >> laura: demagoguery is so lame. >> this is not demagoguery. 370,000...

And everybody plays by the same set of rules. >> laura: conservatives, myself included, do not see the president's buffet tax as a way to fix the economy. in fact, mitt romney's campaign says it would actually raise taxes on many small businesses and end up hurting job creation. joining me now from new york, with a different perspective, i can't believe that, david callahan, senior fellow at the democratic think tank and here in d.c. erica payne agenda project progressive advocacy group. let's start with you, erica, i'm reading your point of view on my sheet, you want to go further than the bu...

Today. >> he has got two challenges, laura, mitt romney, first of all he has got to make sure he stays focus on making his campaign about barack obama and his record. you mentioned those "the washington post" poll numbers on the economy, on unemployment. on gas prices on record deficits and record debt, if he keeps the focus on that as well as socialized medicine and obama care which remains highly unpopular, he will actually be able to surmount a lot of the obstacles that we just talked about here in terms of likability and so on. the other part of mitt romney's challenge is it's not enough t...

Paint himself -- paint a vision is that he has painted himself into a corner. the reality is the old expression the curse of the crump diamond is that it comes with mr. crump. the curse with mitt romney winning the republic position so far right wing keep him out of the mainstream of america. defined not economic growth but depoor pation of undocumented workers or defunding planned parenthood or hosts of other extremist point of view defending gas subsidies. no place in the mainstream. the "the washington post" poll today reflected that. >> laura: the "the washington post" poll had a lot of in...

They do now. it could be 18, could be 21. there should be laws to prevent kids from using these things just as there is hole alcohol. >> laura: alcohol has destroyed so many lives. >> prohibition was worse. >> laura: john, thank you very much. pinheads and patriots on deck. just who won that 656-million-dollar jacket? a winning ticket claimed in maryland. we will give you details in just over two minutes.