the election. you remember. we talked about this a lot. republicans are furious because they can t control this conversation. americans know where they stand on tax fairness and republicans are on the losing end. it s been a rough week. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question. who has the upper hand in the fiscal cliff negotiations at this point? text a for president obama, text b for the republicans to 622639. always go to our blog at ed.msn ed.msnbc.com and leave a comment. we encourage you to do that. we ll bring you the results later on in the show. i m joined tonight by sam stein, political reporter for the huffington post. don t you dare give me a hard time about the packers. let s get on to the important stuff. who is winning the conversation with the american people? what kind of week was it on the hill, sam? obviojectively you can say t president is winning this conversation at this junction.
for him to go in front of the american public and be disingenuous about he doesn t know what the specifics are is a flat-out lie. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, who is john boehner fooling? text a., for no one, b. for himself to 622639. always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we ll bring you the results later on in the show. joining me now, richard wolffe, not a card player, but msnbc political analyst and vice president, executive editor of msnbc.com. i thought it was an academy award performance by boehner today. pretty good, huh? he knows what the numbers are, don t you think? he knows what the numbers are and what the other side is holding here. he has to pretend like he fought for something. he has no leverage. tom cole isn t just a guy from oklahoma. he led the republican conference. that s the ideological core, those are the sort of torch holders for the whole movement. and so when tom cole says, we got to go with what we ve got
convincing. but we all know the truth. the obama team has put the budget in front of him. he knows what the cuts are. for him to go in front of the american public and be disingenuous about he doesn t know what the specifics are is a flat-out lie. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, who is john boehner fooling? text a., for no one, b. for himself to 622639. always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we ll bring you the results later on in the show. joining me now, richard wolffe, not a card player, but msnbc political analyst and vice president, executive editor of msnbc.com. i thought it was an academy award performance by boehner today. pretty good, huh? he knows what the numbers are, don t you think? he knows what the numbers are and what the other side is holding here. he has to pretend like he fought for something. he has no leverage. tom cole isn t just a guy from oklahoma. he led the republican conference. that s the ideological core, t
get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, who is john boehner fooling? text a., for no one, b. for himself to 622639. always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we ll bring you the results later on in the show. joining me now, richard wolffe, not a card player, but msnbc political analyst and vice president, executive editor of msnbc.com. i thought it was an academy award performance by boehner today. pretty good, huh? he knows what the numbers are, don t you think? he knows what the numbers are and what the other side is holding here. he has to pretend like he fought for something. he has no leverage. tom cole isn t just a guy from oklahoma. he led the republican conference. that s the ideological core, those are the sort of torch holders for the whole movement. and so when tom cole says, we got to go with what we ve got here, we have to take what we got, going to declare victory and move on, that s how it s going to play out. and tom cole didn t s
he ll turn his back on the folks on the other side of the aisle. and it will be more of the same. mitt romney has no plan for taxes. he can t be direct on that. he has no plan when it comes to repealing obama care and what he s going to replace it with. and what about immigration? which in these last few weeks hasn t gotten a whole lot of attention. he has no plan for america. and now he s going to be the guy who s going to reach across the aisle? get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question. who do you trust to work with the other side? text a for president obama, text b to mitt romney to 622639. always to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we ll bring you the results later on in the show. joining me tonight, karen finney, msnbc political analyst and former communications director of the dnc. karen, good to have you with us tonight. good to see you, ed. this is this is a rather interesting closing argument that mitt romney is making that he s going to b