is this talk about hillary clinton bumping biden from the 2012 ticket just backroom buzz for hill and bill when obama is gone? is it a boomlet without a bong bang? hi, welcome to the show. i m chris matthews. with me today, john heilemann, erin burnett, kelly o donnell and howard fineman. democrats say they will take up the bush tax cuts right after labet. but that gay marriage ruling this week could be a wild card. will it distract? we don t take more from the private sec and grow government with it and that s exactly what obama has in mind. it s idiotic t othink about increasing taxes at a time like this. chris: for his part president ob a ishitting the familiar democratic line, that republicans cater to the rich. they want to extend the bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. i don t understand. how do you get up here and talk about how you care so deeply about the deficit and yet you want to perpetuate a tax cut that cost $700 billion. chris: is the preside