evidence. >> why would the republicans allow the entire debate to be over taxes when obama is proposing on raising the rates on the 2% is i triviality it will reduce the deficit from 1.10 trillion to 1.02 trillion. 8 cents on the dollar. it's nothing. it's lunch money. it's a rounding error. yet that all the debate we are hearing. obama understands this. he's not trying to fix our fiscal issues and problems. he's trying to destroy the republicans by insisting that there is a split among the republicans on this issue which has held them together same way it destroyed president bush senior when he went back on the pledge he made. this is a political attack on republicans. there is no evidence that he has any interest in the real fiscal issue because he would have to