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Country who want the government to support them. you know that. the entitlement class is growing in america. >> i don't think that's the majority by any means. and i think a lot of people who today find themselves dependent upon government getting unemployment check would like nothing better than to be getting a paycheck and being responsible for themselves and their own family. >> bill: here is how the president is going to position it he is going to say i'm going to cut your payroll taxes for working americans which he absolutely wants to do. bring that down a few percentage points. making u...

Fair enough. >> right. this is the reality. number one, you're absolutely right, the president got the upper hand on this, republicans played themselves out of position. they took the wrong end -- >> why? >> who knows why -- >> this is what i can't figure out. who's leading them up on the hill? >> i can't understand the lack of coordination between the house leadership with mccarthy whipping the numbers to be able to tell the senate that the numbers aren't there for the bill you're passing or the senate to tell the house -- that this is the deal we need to cut. >> could it be they're in a rut ...

Hill? >> i can't understand the lack of coordination between the house leadership with mccarthy whipping the numbers to be able to tell the senate that the numbers aren't there for the bill you're passing or the senate to tell the house -- that this is the deal we need to cut. >> could it be they're in a rut and they're used to voting against anything the president is for? >> that's too easy. i don't think it's that so much as it is -- >> bob, do you think that's it? i want to ask bob this. you're a political analyst as well as a progressive, bob. why would the republicans take this position o...

Right, the president got the upper hand on this, republicans played themselves out of position. they took the wrong end -- >> why? >> who knows why -- >> this is what i can't figure out. >> i can't understand the lack of coordination between the house leadership with mccarthy whipping the numbers to be able to tell the senate that the numbers aren't there for the bill you're passing or the senate to tell the house -- >> could it be they're in a rut and they're used to voting against anything the president is for? >> that's too easy. i don't think it's that so much as it is -- >> bob, do you th...

Cuts to pay for themselves. the gop abandoned this in this case and instead has decided to engage in a tit for tat over cuts with democrats." so since reagan, jack kemp has said, cut taxes for the rich, and they'll pay for themselves in more revenues because people will make more money out there. in this case, tax cuts for working stiffs, they weren't willing to say, these tax cuts will pay for themselves by -- >> or that they should be more offset by tax increases on the wealthiest few americans. that was not the original white house proposal, but senate democrats gave the president a great f...