issue, evading responsibility, failing to fix this crisis. the people i work for want to see us do something. see us lead. people are ready to be talked to as adults and not pandered to like children. you will see ryan rule that out. the house republican budget plan, a long way to go before becoming law. this is more about the debate for the 2012 election. mayor romney will definitely add to his delegate lead with a win in the appropriaprimary tod. he s hoping build momentum to the april 3rd primaries. an informal adviser charlie black here with me now. you saw the illinois ballot. down to three, four states that do it this way? that s right. this is completely archaic and ridiculous, is it not? it may be. there s a number of states individuals run for delegate and
no wonder republicans want to talk about birth control. did you see the good news on the economy today? here it is in the washington post website, u.s. adds 227,000 jobs. new york times home page, u.s. extends run of wall street journal, job gains build momentum. cnn, right up top, new jobs report more hiring but jobless rate unchanged. msnbc, employers create more than 200,000 jobs for third straight month. today s job report headlines every where showing the economy added more than 200,000 jobs last month for the third month in a row. front page headline news all over the internet today, except for the fox news home page. it s not even a sidebar story today. jobs report? what jobs report? we have a huge story about the titanic. and hey, bill maher, what a jerk, right? who new jobs numbers.
earlier told. here is what he had to say. it will be a tremendous boost. it would be. technically it s not an all in to it because the delegates we re going to get delegates one way or the other, but a win gives awe lot of psychological boost and helps build momentum. what s really interesting about the maine caucus is there are a few thousand people that participate. there are over 200,000. well over 200,000. about 275,000 registered republican here s if the state. but only about 5500 showed up to caucus in 2008. so the numbers are small. it could have a big impact because the next nominating contest is more than two weeks away in arizona and michigan. eric: romney, paul, gingrich, santorum, we ll see who pull it is off. we ll get back to you thanks. arthel: in political fireworks, cpac conference coming to a close today in washington and conservatives from across the country choosing mitt romney as the winner of this year s cpac straw poll.
probably ought to extend those bush tax rates, the lower rates which will january to expire on january 31st. is there agitating for that. could this build momentum and see the rates remain. let s hope the mini revolt turns into a major revolt? i think that would be one of the most important things that president obama could do to help stimulate the economy is simply announce look, we re not going to raise capital gains taxes, not going to raise dividend taxes and most importantly, apropos to what you were talking about, remember the income tax increases on the quote, unquote, rich. two-thirds of the people paying the rate increases in 2011 are exactly the small businesses that barack obama says he wants to help. politically, politically, do you think there s a cans the white house will turn on this if the economy remains weak enough there s little job growth the rest of this year? i really do. i think that almost no one
started to say, now what, we probably ought to extend those bush tax rates, the lower rates which will january to expire on january 31st. is there agitating for that. could this build momentum and see the rates remain. let s hope the mini revolt turns into a major revolt? i think that would be one of the most important things that president obama could do to help stimulate the economy is simply announce look, we re not going to raise capital gains taxes, not going to raise dividend taxes and most importantly, apropos to what you were talking about, remember the income tax increases on the quote, unquote, rich. two-thirds of the people paying the rate increases in 2011 are exactly the small businesses that barack obama says he wants to help. politically, politically, do you think there s a cans the white house will turn on this if the economy remains weak enough there s little job growth the rest of this year? i really do. i think that almost no one