this in a positive way. and say i disagree with my republican colleagues. we found a compromise. i don t like everything in dale. i don t like the payroll tax should have again to employers not just the employees so we could grow jobs. we should have found a way to fun the unemployment. bottom line he had an opportunity to be a leader. he didn t lead. now he has set up the class warfare argument that continues in 2012 and they will lose that argument in the end. sean: why is this president so immature and angry? i don t think he s immature and i think he has shown some courage. i agree with norm that it is important for the president to use rhetoric that business people together and to say he get with his republican colleagues who wanted to exempt people i would have been in favor i think norm
and say i disagree with my republican colleagues. we found a compromise. i don t like everything in dale. i don t like the payroll tax should have again to employers not just the employees so we could grow jobs. we should have found a way to fun the unemployment. bottom line he had an opportunity to be a leader. he didn t lead. now he has set up the class warfare argument that continues in 2012 and they will lose that argument in the end. sean: why is this president so immature and angry? i don t think he s immature and i think he has shown some courage. i agree with norm that it is important for the president to use rhetoric that business people together and to say he get with his republican colleagues who wanted to exempt people i would have beenn favor i think norm is right.
does he think it is a problem for the budget and deficit? i think it is a political position. i think he thinks the class warfare argument is a winning argument for him. he s obviously not concerned about the deficit, look at the way he s spending money. greta: did you think election night was the end of bad news for president obama? wrong. you didn t hear what happened today. governor huckabee is here. is rush limbaugh the reason the republicans did not win the united states senate? that s what someone says. we ll let rush explain. [ upbeat instrumental ]
cut. i have to confess watching a democrat like nancy scold her fellow democrats for punting on the issue pichts s a dumb and dumber. they had an opportunity to advance their old class warfare argument. let s punish the job creators who make $250,000 a year or more and let s show we care for the middle class and they punted. this is what it looks like when you are a political party that s desperate. this is a party that knows they are going to get their clocks cleaned november 2. they are trying to avoid anything that could rock that could roil the waters. for us republicans, it s the gift that just keeps on giving because they can t get it right. megyn: it appears they didn t want to take the vote. there were democrats in the senate who weren t ready to sign
218 to basically extend the tax cuts? how could you stop it from passing before it gets to the floor? i don t think it will get to the floor. hold on a second. you asked a very good question and it would be a difficult question if not for the fact that the speaker controls the flow of legislation to the floor. what will get to the floor now with john boehner s support is a tax cut for everybody that makes $250,000 and under and what won t get to the floor is what john boehner would like. it might get to the floor in the senate and the republicans will have to defend tax cuts. i agree. but steve back to todd. i m not going to make a fight for it but you re already laughing. it seems that boehner has got himself in a position, okay, i ll vote for it if it s the only thing that we ve got. give me one other option. let me have an up and down on everybody getting a tax cut. your thoughts, todd? he certainly has not waved a white flag and i m only laughing because the class warfare a