ask everyone to pay their fair share. president obama presented an economic plan this week whose proposals for taxing the rich did not sit well with republicans. class warfare, chris, may make for good politics, but it makes for rotten economics. when you pick one area of the economy and say we re going to tax those people because most people are not those people, that s class warfare. the president said the other day that tax hikes he s proposing aren t class warfare. he said they re math. we can do math too. this is not class warfare, it s math. house speaker john boehner put the debate into helpful narcotics terms. giving the federal government more money would be like giving a cocaine addict, all right, more cocaine. while jon stewart made a plea for tiniest victims of class warfare, bald rich guys. will you be an angel for a helpless multimillionaire? thousands more like him live in fear that the top marginal tax
hep hasn t said it yet. what s going on? come on. say it, mike. happy friday. there he is. okay. now we can get going. you watched the debate last night. tell us what you thought. well, very tough night for rick perry. we have a headline up that says texas toast? the perry mobile went from zero to front runner in just a week and we re starting to see the stress fractures of that in the debate last night. we saw perry take a very clumsy shot at immigration hard-liners in his party. he didn t have good answers for mitt romney, looked a little stumbling. our guys james holman mike harden wrote a story about this. they conceded the point that he s had rough outings in these debates.