where is there a liberal i can yell at for this? then there are the democrats who are up for re-election this year who have given the choice to defend their own record and stand up for the democratic party and what democrats have accomplished have instead decided to run as republicans. sort of. or at least to campaign on how much they voted with john boehner. oh, you think i m kidding. i m the most independent member of congress. i try to bring people together to make good things happen for our country. i m bobby bright. i approve this ad. did you catch that at the end? democratic congressmen showing you a picture of himself next to a picture of john boehner bragging in giant yellow letters about how often he votes with the republican leader. 80% of the time! that s democratic congressman bobby bright s campaign message. vote for me. i m basically a republican. here is another ad by a democratic congressman trying to hold on to his seat this year. when president obama and nancy p
where is there a liberal i can yell at for this? then there are the democrats who are up for re-election this year who have given the choice to defend their own record and stand up for the democratic party and what democrats have accomplished have instead decided to run as republicans. sort of. or at least to campaign on how much they voted with john boehner. oh, you think i m kidding. i m the most independent member of congress. i try to bring people together to make good things happen for our country. i m bobby bright. i approve this ad. did you catch that at the end? democratic congressmen showing you a picture of himself next to a picture of john boehner bragging in giant yellow letters about how often he votes with the republican leader. 80% of the time! that s democratic congressman bobby bright s campaign message. vote for me. i m basically a republican. here is another ad by a democratic congressman trying to hold on to his seat this year. when president obama and nancy p
will join us later this hour and talk exactly about that and explain what taxing the rich really means. and you may be surprised about how that all works out. and just to go on a point you were making yesterday, ryan, i think the biggest story about all these tax cuts is the pressure that president obama and his administration is going to feel from other democrats, not republicans. it s there. from democrats because now you have four senators who want to increase the tax cuts for the wealthy, for everyone and at least a dozen house democrats. so, you know, will that continue to grow as they move forward and want to be re-elected in november? that s what i think will be the biggest. for example, senator ben nelson says i think we should extend the bush tax cuts. senator michael bennett of colorado, same thing. joe lieberman, evan bahn, ken conrad, among the house members, bobby bright of alabama, jim heinz of connecticut. jerry connolly of virginia. gary peters of ohio so the
and worked for the speaker of the house. anything associated with government in washington right now is unpopular. highly unpopular. that s because people are unhappy with the way the government has been working or not working. it s because we have been having a hard time getting out of the worst economic disaster that we have had since the great depression. it s going to take time. the numbers are headed in the right direction. the democrats are going to have a positive message. i think it s going to be a very close election. i don t think the democrats are going to lose control of the house, but it is going to be close. and nancy pelosi, you know, stands for a lot of what s been happening. but she will linebacker regarded as a very effective speaker when compared to others in history. and we ll just have to see what the election holds. julie: ron, i want to know what you think of democrats. how far they should go when it comes to distancing themselves from pelosi. congressman bobby
said that we don t put back this money into the millionaires hands. we ve had the greatest increase in disparity of the wealthiest americans and everybody else. that s true. that s certainly true. yeah. we don t need to exacerbate that. here s your democratic colleagues and what they re saying. virginia s jerry connelly said in my view, this is no time to do anything that could be jarring to a fragile economy. bobby bright said i ve heard from a vast majority of my constituents, they don t believe in tax increases on anybody else at this point in time. and evan bayh said the economy is very weak right now. raising taxes will lower consumer demand at a time when we want people putting more money in. there you have it. let me ask you this. here s the problem it seems to me. you folks are the pros. i m watching this.