immigration. on the topics of guns and immigration, look at what congressman jack kingston, smart guy from georgia, told the new york times about what backing he gets back home. there was a lot of washington talk about the gun bills possibilities but i never saw that reflected in the people at home. now there s all this buzz about the immigration reform. and that is not reflected, either. gene, all this these big polls reflect popular opinion including a lot of votes in the big cities and the suburbs. you get out into rural areas in this country, which is a lot of this country, conservative views on guns and immigration. that s true. but those numbers are not insignificant. if you ve got 86% who say they favor something it should include the rural areas. by nature, you re using the bully pulpit pretty wells right? because he s got public o pin whereon on his side, on these issues. now, maybe there s some level of trust of confidence reflected in that second group of figur
the president s speech. they only care about their decades-long, decades-old gun control agenda. ban every gun they can, tax every gun sold, and register every american gun owner. the president has taken the art of public deception and manipulation to a whole new level on this one. joining me now, washington post columnist and msnbc political analyst, e.j. dionne who is also on the nra s enemies list. e.j., first of all, congratulations of making the it s a my honor and distinct privilege to be on that list. a lot of us are kind of jealous. you re in distinguished company. frank rich, jimmy breslin. they concentrate on columnists. they still think that you wield all the power in public o pin where
taken the millionaires tax increase off the table. what s your reaction to that? it s more hostage taking by the republicans as congressman israel just said. who are the hostages? who actually suffers by the threat of the government shut down? the people who get social security, who get medicare, the people who get medicaid, the people who get unemployment insurance. the republicans are holdi inini hostage the old, the sick and the poor for the sake of who? the billionaires. d they know if the government shuts down, the billionaires laugh all the way to the bank. we re going to see this over and over again. yeah. did the democrats cave in your o pin pinion? is this a good, temporary deal in your opinion? there are some good things about it, there are some bad things about it. congressman waxman has said the keystone excel is something that will addict america to dirty fuel for the next generation. so that s not a good part of it at all. what message does this send to the middl