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You. thank you. >> ezra klein is our resident wonk, and he has a wonk question for you. so i'm going to hand thing over to ezra. >> hey, good evening. >> governor daniel's speech was mostly about debt. and one of the points he made is that the debt has run up quite a bit under president obama. "the new york times" recently did an analysis, an apples to apples of debt under the two presidents from their policies, not the economic policies around them. the bush tax cuts versus the stimulus. they found that under push, the policies themselves amount to $5 trillion under bush and obama, $1.5 trill...

And that is that all tax bills must begin in the house of representatives, which is now controlled by republicans. so much of what the president was talking about tonight involves changes to the tax code. how does the president think he can get that kind of change initiated in the republican house of representatives? >> because i think it's what the vast majority of the american people want. they're calling for equity, they're calling for fairness. they're saying that, look, just as we saw tonight, warren buffett's secretary, who was sitting in the box, who pays a higher tax rate than he does,...

Old-time midwest bob taff conservatism, except for some of the bromides and idiomatic crap he threw in there to make people happy. there was a sear yoisness to this speech, and now i understand why people like mitch daniels. >> chris, i could not disagree with you more about the speech. >> why, what's wrong? >> i don't have time to go into that. i think mitch daniels was there to say, the world is on fire, be afraid, run to republicans. i mean, he's talking about america as a country that is, what was the -- america adrift, going over a niagara? i mean, this was a be afraid, be afraid, this gu...

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