go ahead, i m sorry. that s absolutely right. there s two things. there s the way the money s made and there s the amount of it. and it s true that a lot of upper middle class people get most of their income from wages and salary and so forth, not from interest on investments, and that s one of the things the president s going on. let s ask the question, will it work and will it work politically? will he ever get it passed? no, it s not going to get passed. but the key thing for him is, this is music to the ears of most democrats. the republicans can pound the table and say, this is class warfares, horrors. bill clinton says anytime the democrats talk about taxes, the republicans scream class warfare, which is correct. so what the president essentially is doing is saying, okay, call it what you want, i m going to advocate this policy. the democratic base, and i talk to a lot of them today, absolutely love what the president said in the rose garden today. let me try to figure
$60,000. when they hear that you have $400,000 left over, it s not exactly a sympathetic position. again, class warfares never created a job. that s people that will not get jobs. this is not about attacking people who make certain incomes. you know, in this country, most people feel that being successful in their businesses is a vir r chew, not a vice. and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down. well, congressman, good of you to come in. are you open to hearing what the president has to say? absolutely. thank you so much. we do appreciate it. back to ezra klein and i think that s an important conversation because we are getting a preview now of what the president can expect. is noif this tax plan or deficit reduction plan likely to get through? what are we looking at here in terms of washington politics? not much is likely to get through. the congressman is right.
and salary and so forth, not from interest on investments, and that s one of the things the president s going on. let s ask the question, will it work and will it work politically? will he ever get it passed? no, it s not going to get passed. but the key thing for him is, this is music to the ears of most democrats. the republicans can pound the table and say, this is class warfares, horrors. bill clinton says anytime the democrats talk about taxes, the republicans scream class warfare, which is correct. so what the president essentially is doing is saying, okay, call it what you want, i m going to advocate this policy. the democratic base, and i talk to a lot of them today, absolutely love what the president said in the rose garden today. let me try to figure out what he s going to do to get re-elected. what i like to do is figure out politics. it seems to me when you have a 9.1% unemployment rate running into next year with no sign of relief, he s got to talk jobs. he s got t
they re blaming you, the labor unions and you re starting to see this play out. class warfares, but the republicans are saying why are we talking about raising taxes in this economy, it s so bad out there. the worst time to raise the taxes e we had a poll earlier this week, how do americans feel about raising the debt ceiling and that narrative is plague out. we don t want to raise the debt ceiling, we want to cut spending. and when you ask them about raising taxes. dave: and many want marco rubio to be the vice-president accounted in 2012 and the presidential field getting more crowded on saturday. he think we re up to ten running for republican nomination. ainsley: i ve lost count. dave: someone you may not have heard of on the national scene, but thaddeus mccotter, a michigan congressman getting in this thing and you can call him an underdog at the very