or the house of representatives and the president obama wants to extend the tax cuts only for the middle class and not for those making over $250 the but -- $250,000 but despite polling the democrats could have advantage they are running away from it and we have a growing number of democrats in congress who say they agree with president bush not president obama. >>neil: what is the political risk to go ahead and force that issue, democrats, on republicans, saying here it is, we are for extending all but the rich tax cuts. vote yes or no. they could come back and say, well, you know, you guys turned down a tax cut for the vast majority of americans in this country. >>guest: it would divide them. because a lot of the candidates running, democrat candidates running and the vulnerables in the house do not think we should raise taxes on anyone at the moment. and that's the problem,