along with others of his colleagues say they voted for the bush agenda. now they say they didn t mean it or did something else but that agent la resulted in a loss of millions of jobs. the only thing that went up was the deficit and now the issue is how do you deal with the long-term deficit. what we said is you take a balanced approach and make some cuts. the president has recommended more. you have to ask the folks on top for more, too, because if you ask nothing of them, you hit everyone else really hard. again, great if you re mitt romney, you re going to get another tax break. but it re more of the same. trickle-down economics. you can dress it however you want but it s bush trickle-down
an msnbc contributor. jared, good to see you as always. great to see you and great to listen to you. tell me if i have it wrong. you re a smart guy. you know how to read this stuff. you know the obama administration s policies well. are and the bush administration s, for that matter. are there major differences between the bush agenda and philosophy and what mitt romney s proposed here? no, if anything, governor romney doubles down. you said one thing that s different is repealing dodd-frank. that s deregulation, right, that s the hair of the dog that bit you, and the amnesia that s setting in vis-a-vis financial plarkts, by the way, actually, all that stuff that he was partially responsible, it didn t work, so even some people in the banking sector, greenspan recognizes it, so this
contributor. jared, good to see you as always. great to see you and great to listen to you. tell me if i have it wrong. you re a smart guy. you know how to read this stuff. you ve read all of the plans many times. you know the obama administration s policies well. are and the bush administration s, for that matter. are there major differences between the bush agenda and philosophy and what mitt romney s proposed here? no, if anything, governor romney doubles down. on many of the measures you mentioned. it was interesting, you said one thing that s different is rep l repealing dodd-frank. that s deregulation, right, that s the hair of the dog that bit you, and the amnesia that s setting in vis-a-vis financial markets, by the way, actually, i was struck by sandy weill saying all that stuff that he was partially responsible for, it didn t work, so even some people in the banking sector, greenspan recognized it, so this
has done a dignified job of staying out of the public eye and not taking part in this. if republicans were honest, they would say we are following the bush agenda. we think that was great. we liked deregulation and corporations doing what they want and the bush tax cuts. they should be asking him to go out and campaign for it. i don t think he s got any calls to refuse because he s not getting the call. but let s give him credit where it is due. he has dignified presidents and ex-presidents by staying above and out of the fray at this moment. but if republicans were honest they would say we love the guy, we want to carry on where he left off. governor rendell, the fact is that the president made it clear that this is the bush policies. today he made the case, while we don t want to go back to bush policies. watch this and give me your reaction. we spent almost a decade doing what they prescribed. and how did it turn out?
counselor who says he helped countless ex-scientologists. i ll ask hollywood heavyweight rob reiner if the obama campaign s in trouble. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight. the battle for the heart and soul of this country s middle class. judging by the amount of talk today about tax, both sides believe this will be the big issue that decides the election. president obama earlier. in many ways, the fate of the tax cut for the wealthiest americans will be decided by the outcome of the next election. my opponent will fight to keep them in place. i will fight to end them. but that argument shouldn t threaten you. it shouldn t threaten the 98% of americans who just want to know their taxes won t go up next year. more on our big story. romney supporter tim pawlenty. welcome back, governor. captain morgan, it s good to be back with you. i like that phrase, thank you. let s turn to your own captain or the guy who wants to be captain, mitt rom