of our work force. that is going to be their plan in september to raise taxes in the middle of a recession. >> chris: let me talk with you, congressman boehner. you say and senator mcconnell says the answer is to extend the bush tax cuts. let's take a look at the cost here. extending just the tax cuts for the wealthy would cost $678 billion over ten years. extending all the tax cuts would cost $2.9 trillion. that will explode the deficit and president obama says today that for all of the talk about you guys as deficit hogs if you buck him when it comes to some of the ideas he has to reduce the deficit he, quote, is going to call your bluff. >> chris, you have been in washington too long because that is all a bunch of washington talk. >> chris: i'm just asking a question, sir. >> you cannot raise taxes on the american people in the middle of a recession.