should be eliminated for all americans, not just the richest 1 percent but this president is saying hey, everyone who makes over $1 million, you're going to lose these bush tax cuts and it's going to help this economy. we all know that the government has to start priming the punt through infrastructure pend -- priming the pump through infrastructure spending or this economy is going nowhere. if republicans get control of the white house, that's exactly what they'll do. megyn: chris, is it cynical for the president to go with liberal orthodoxy on these plans, does it mean he's done governing and in full mode campaigning or does it mean this is what he believes is genuinely good for the country? >> it almost doesn't matter whether he believes this is good for the country or not. it's been tried and has failed. the president is running on failed polices so they've got to resort to attacks. harry reid just put the democrat, leader of the democrat-controlled senate, just today pushed this phony jobs bill off for -- they're going to take another vacation for more than another week, when they come back, they're going to take up china currency issues.