of messere, aux financial. we re talking about the middle class. who represents the middle class in this country. the democrats are trying to make the point with speeches by president obama in the last couple of weeks. democrats are the party of the middle class. republicans are the party of the rich. republicans obviously are struggling with that themselves. david, what s your sense of how republicans are thinksing themselves and who in this country represents the vast majority of people, the middle class. i don t think anybody is doing a very good job of it of the president gave a speech in kansas a week ago in which he tried to stake out this ground. he gave a very good assessment of problems facing middle class americans. his descriptions were really weak. the president s main idea seems to be to have higher taxes on those who earn a lot and to use that money to expand public employment and hope more public employment will create a broader government sector middle cla
diane swonk, old friend, chief of messere, aux financial. we re talking about the middle class. who represents the middle class in this country. the democrats are trying to make the point with speeches by president obama in the last couple of weeks. democrats are the party of the middle class. republicans are the party of the rich. republicans obviously are struggling with that themselves. david, what s your sense of how republicans are thinksing themselves and who in this country represents the vast majority of people, the middle class. i don t think anybody is doing a very good job of it of the president gave a speech in kansas a week ago in which he tried to stake out this ground. he gave a very good assessment of problems facing middle class americans. his descriptions were really weak. the president s main idea seems to be to have higher taxes on those who earn a lot and to use that money to expand public employment and hope more public employment will create a broad
tonight in their final debate together before the iowa caucuses in just three weeks. political analysts expect much of the attention will be on the g.o.p. front-runners, newt gingrich and mitt romney. susan mcginnis has more. reporter: final preparations are underway for tonight s debate in iowa. but the fireworks have already begun. he s a wealthy man. a very wealthy man. if you have a half a million dollar purchase from tiffany s, you re not a middle class american. mitt romney bashed newt gingrich calling him zany and questioning his dedication to the republican party. newt gingrich has been an unreliable leader in the conservative movement. gingrich was quick to fire back. i have a 90% american voting record for 20 years. i m the only person in the lifetime to help balance the budget for four straight years. romney wasn t the only one on the attack. for nearly three minutes, protestors drowned out gingrich during a speech in iowa calling him arrogant tow
the mountains all the way to the bay and eastern shore. few isolated spots eastern shore where there s not as much cloud cover. but elsewhere, quite a bit of cloudiness across virginia, maryland, and west virginia coming in from the west/northwest. there s a warm front triggering some rain way out in western west virginia into ohio, indiana, michigan, and parts of kentucky. that s going to be staying generally way to our west. however, far western maryland may get a few sprinkles over the morning hours. sunrise at 7:18. they ll have quite a bit of cloudiness. maybe a few peeks of sun in and out. we re seeing the moon showing through from time to time. moons high in the western sky. by midafternoon, ought to be making it in the upper 40s. low and mid-50s. a milder day on the way. overnight tonight, turning cool again. a look at your evening planner in ten minutes. here s a look at the wednesday commute. danella, how are things looking now. over in germantown, a pedestrian st
to be meeting with in terms of the labor leaders. richard trumka of the afl-cio, eliseo medina, lloyd blankfein, and arnie sorenson, among others. so those are just a few of the folks with whom he will be meeting this afternoon. of course, time is of the essence, thomas. the president believes he has about a year, year and a half, to really make movements on some of these other policy issues, like gun control, like immigration reform. as you know, he was in minnesota yet, pressing for new gun safety measures. so i think this is a tactic you re going to see this white house continue with over the next several weeks. when you say time is of the essence, because of 2014, the midterms coming up. and when we talk about time, we know we have just a week to go until the state of the union address. but we re also learning that the president is going to deliver the remarks this afternoon in response to the problem that s looming about the sequester. a short-term fix to that. can we expect to