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Of the u.s. and their families are involved in the military, the idea that the republicans would focus repeatedly in 2001, in 2003 with the bush tax cuts, mostly benefiting the top, then again during the debt ceiling crisis where we had the whole u.s. government held hostage for a deal that would continue to prioritize lower taxes for the best off in society, that s never been done before, and it s wrong, and i think one of the things that s always amazed me is the democrats don t frame the tax argument this way. we usually hear the debate about fairness coming from the democrats and we hear about class warfare and the other, you know, the other red herrings coming from the gop, but why don t democrats just stand up and say, we don t cut taxes for the wealthiest people in society when we re at war. as we have been for a decade. of course, all of those were enacted after september the 11th, 2001. professor peterson, mitt romney wants to be president even though he won t provide a scin ....
Once you get on the wrong track no, question. a bad number for the president. when you look at the policy questions, some lean romney s way. he is more trusted on the economy in the polls. some lean obama way on the populist tax argument resonate with majorities sometimes. a lot of confusion out there. bret: unemployment is, quickly, melissa, are we expecting the numbers in the months leading up november to tick up? up? we know no one has been re-elected with unemployment numbers like this. month after month we watch it sit at this level. you have a sense they re trying to bring it down. stay tuned for continued speculation for choices for vice president. [ male announcer ] it s a golden opportunity. ....
Obama s reelection. here is team romney s newest attempt to win ohio. in 2009, under the obama administration s bailout of general motors, ohio dealerships were forced to close. that is a curious way to advertise, considering that mitt romney wrote an editorial in the new york times in 2008 saying, let detroit go bankrupt. and in may romney said this my own view, by the way, is that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. and, frankly, that s finally what the president did. he finally took them through bankruptcy. that was the right course i argued for from the very beginning. so i ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry s come back. joining me now, howard fineman, huffington post editorial director and msnbc analyst and david cay johnston, pulitzer prize winning columnist for reuters. david, take us through this tax argument that s going on now between the two campaigns. well, the president is doing something that his ....
Right spot in the tax argument. and my bet here is that he s only going to get better as refining and simplifying that point. yeah, they keep pushing on what turned out to be an open door, lawrence. a few months ago, a lot of analysts, including this one, me, wondered if pushing the fairness argument on taxes was risky for president obama. but it turns out, in a time of a bleak economy, when everybody s looking for a fair shake, that this argument really works. and it s not just that rich people are going to get more, what the president is saying now is, middle class voters are going to get less. and on top of that, lawrence, he s now having secured that ground, he s now going to the deficit argument on this too, which is very shrewd of him. in a speech in akron today, it was all about this topic. he didn t talk about anything else but this. it s clearly working. and the problem that mitt romney has is, once again, he s being ....
Attempt to win ohio. in 2009, under the obama administration s bailout of general motors, ohio dealerships were forced to close. that is a curious way to advertise, considering that mitt romney wrote an editorial in the new york times in 2008 saying, let detroit go bankrupt. and in may, romney said this my only thought was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. and frankly, that s finally what the president did. he finally took them through bankruptcy. that was the right course. i argued for it from the very beginning. so i ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry s come back. joining me now, howard fineman, huffington post editorial director and msnbc analyst and david cay johnston, pulitzer prize winning columnist for reuters. david, take us through this tax argument that s going on now, between the two campaigns. well, the president is doing something that his predecessors did not, and that is, explaining ....