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Conference, the retreat up in baltimore, and the president said it is in time to raise taxes on anyone because the economy is too weak and it is only growing at 2.3 percent and now it is growing at 1.5 percent. >>guest: chris, the president has never argued that tax cuts for the wealthy is a stimulation to the economy. we have to make a choice. the choice is, what do we need to do to grow the economy in the short run and to bring down the deficits in the long running? $800 billion of tax cuts for the wealthy is not a choice we should make. especially you you neglecting tx cuts of romney on dro...

Studies. here is what i know going back to the policies of the last decade. huge unpaid for tax cuts skewed to the wealthy is not going to produce the kind of economy that we need. it is not going to help rebuild the middle class in this country. and it is not going to help us grow the kind of economy that we need for the long run. yes, we have a fundamental difference on this issue. >>chris: we will do a lightning round and you are not very good at it but i will give you another chance. quick questions and quick answers. senate majority leader, harry reid, took to the senate floor this week t...

The problem is, the policies of today are clearly not working. you see the dips back in growth and you see the stumbling along unemployment numbers, and it is hard for them to make the case this isn't attached to their own policies. the problem for mitt romney is he has not necessarily gone out and aggressively talked about what he would do and why it would make a change. you saw a difference this week, he came out and relaunched the economic plan and made it more precise. that is the bet they will make in the sweat states perhaps they can push back against the president's criticism on a negat...

Gay marriage was a wedge issue in 2004 of bush running against john kerry, and was on the ballot as a state referendum. the views are shifting and now a narrow majority favor same-sex marriage in the country but not in key swing states like north carolina and florida and ohio. >> yes. the views are shifting but necessarily in the states where this matters the most. and this is going to be an election about the economy. so this is going to play on the margins. the obama administration put this out and doubled down on the gay marriage issue to rev up keep elements of their base. it is a fine age...

Revenues have been 18 percent of g.d.p. federal spending has been roughly 20 percent of g.d.p. in the last three years it has gone from 20 percent of g.d.p. to 25 percent of g.d.p. and the policies of this administration, the obama administration, have waged a war on jobs and a war on small business. i listen to axelrod a few minutes ago talk about getting the economy going and why there weren't anymore jobs. without taking any blame for the fact that their policies killed thousands and thousands of jobs, whether it is obamacare, or dodd-frank or pushing cap and trade or the offshore drilling ...