>> it's my sense the republicans were so unready to deal with the specifics of the president's proposal that they just fell back on the class warfare line today. i think they're seeing the same polls that everyone else sees. they know that the public is on the president's side on the taxation issues. there were other areas to go at, i think, in the specificity of what the president released today for the republicans to maybe try to maneuver, but it seems to me that they fell into the president's trap perfectly since they're so reflexive on taxation that any mention of a change of taxes sent them right into class warfare mode. >> i think it was a trap. the interesting thing, lawrence, is that you had these polls showing americans overwhelmingly -- these polls are very -- it's not just one poll. you have about 12, 15 different polls showing americans overwhelmingly of the opinion that the rich have to pay their fair share, they have to pay more taxes. if we're going to get out of the debt bubble problem we're in. what the republicans did was to