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The democrats make republicans look like the bad guy when president obama can't deliver his own party. >> bob: not clear boehner can deliver republicans on this. >> dana: but doesn't obama have a responseability to bring democrats? >> bob: he does. boehner does as well. boehner says $1 million. it will end up in between the figures. if you take in account what boehner said about cutting, what he said about cutting the tax loopholes and the savings on medicare and medicaid, the total package of the savings, $4.6 trillion. the president of the united states wasn't cut is $4 $4.6 trillion. >> and...

Didn't go down. spending went up. same thing happened in 1990. although george bush, or george herbert walker bush was promised $2 in phony spending cuts for every dollar of tax increase. taxes went up. spending actually increased, it wasn't cut. twice the democrats have said, let's raise taxes and cut spending. twice taxes were increased, spending was not reduced at all. so, the american people aren't falling for that again. we know that if you raise taxes, the politicians in washington simply spend it. and they can promise anything they want, but lucy and the football, charlie brown isn't go...

Same thing happened in 1990. although george bush, or george herbert walker bush was promised $2 in phony spending cuts for every dollar of tax increase. taxes went up. spending actually increased, it wasn't cut. twice the democrats have said, let's raise taxes and cut spending. twice taxes were increased, spending was not reduced at all. so, the american people aren't falling for that again. we know that if you raise taxes, the politicians in washington simply spend it. and they can promise anything they want, but lucy and the football, charlie brown isn't going to fall for this again. >> but...

Ego maniac, whatever you want to call him, if that's his goal. he's down there. he ought to run for president, because that would be his platform, no taxes under any situation, even if your country goes to hell. >> what do you say to that? >> well, look, the tax issue is a very important issue. it's odd some people have tried to personalize it. but, the american people have had their taxes raised in the past. in 1982 the democrats said, jeerks if you let us raise taxes, we'll cut spending $3 for every dollar of tax increase. taxes were raised, spending didn't go down. spending went up. same th...

Little bit, that would give the house democrats a win. we'll see if the republicans see any reason to do that at this point given the strong hand they're playing. >> he said he fear ad double-dip recession. no one likes to hear that. saying he fear this is if the tax deal wasn't cut. one ironic thing is there are a lot of progressives in the house, the ones arguing all along we need ad second stimulus package. in effect, some of these tax kre credits and tax breaks that the white house got in return amount to a second stimulus package. so whether or not if they don't do it will cause a double-...