fooling the american people. certainly not the folks who said you could keep your doctor and your health plan to the american people repeatedly. no, no, no. they are virtuous. republicans, they are insidious. so i asked my friend if he could at least acknowledge all the millions of americans who have lost their coverage or are paying more for their coverage and the millions of uninsured americans themselves who want no part of this coverage, the folks for whom we upended our entire system who now don t want to be part of this. what does he make of that? now, it s at this point in the conversation when i swear we re both reliving that scene in the wizard of oz, when i m pointing out that the grade wizard is a dude behind a curtain pulling a prank and my friend, my friend, a lovely human being, cannot even time the wizard has just been pulling his chain. i paid for dinner. i always do. it s ridiculous.
study shows that. we think that s a bad approach, and what the president ought to do is work with us on policies that will make it less expensive to hire workers so we can get people who have been unemployed for a long period of time back to work. senator, we ve chatted about this before, but i thought this was part of a liberal trap for conservatives, because you come across i know you quite well, you re not this way republicans come across as being heartless, and how could they be against hiking the minimum wage, but republicans are not very good at making the argument that this will hurt jobs, in a recovery like this, this will hardly compel bosses to hire people. in fact, it will do just the opposite. how is it that republicans have that have botched that argument? well, i don t know i wouldn t accept the premise that the argument s been botched. i think the argument is very clear. when you present it to the american people the counterargument, and that is that every em
bill or the 3.8% investment surtax to pay for all of this or the addition aal .9% tax to fun this. his tax deductions are not being paid down. his government-funded care, it looks pretty much locked in. so he can feel free to debate a health care law for him has pretty much been free, and just as free to take a president at his word, so when the president bashes republicans for spending millions of dollars on ads to bad mouth the health care law, who can blame my friend for forgetting the white house spent millions more featuring ads that had everyone from lebron james to lady gaga to promote it. lady gaga! well, he hears what he wants to hear. down to a president who says republicans bash, but have no alternative of their own, when in fact they have four very goodallturnatives, but harry reid won t get one of them the time of day. republicans are heartless. never that democrats are clueless. republicans are the ones who are