yes. my first choice would be as you know, we talked about this before. i would go the constitutional option like bill clinton suggest and say this thing is unconstitutional. ork bama seems to have ruled that out. if he s not going to, he has to reframe the debate. i think the most powerful way to do that is to expose the hoax at the heart of what the republican debt limit argument is. they make it sound like the debt limits, the only way to stop socialist obama from drowning us in debt when obama should say what we should do is raise the debt limit by the amount needed to accommodate the debt that every republican voted for in paul ryan s budget plan last year. this is something people don t understand. the press doesn t widely appreciate this. the ryan budget that all the republicans voted for adds about $6 trillion in debt. ryan may say that s better than the 7 or $8 trillion in obama s
small business owners will be harmed. who are they referring to that are opposed to this surcharge? reporter: from the beginning the idea of taxes was in the republican conference, raising them in any capacity is a nonstarter. you see how hard it was during the last debt limit argument. how much difficulty the super committee had. but luke, i understand this is a nonstarter. but the president appealing to the most recent polls is saying, that two-thirds of the population agree. two-thirds of millionaires agree with an increase. who are they appealing to? reporter: there is an appeal, two fears. is it grover norquist? reporter: the number one fear is that if you raise taxes, would ended up happening to bush 41 in the early 1990s, read my lips no, new tafls. he reversed himself and he lost. that haunts the members of the republican party like nothing else. the other reason is that there is an honest belief among many
this is what i ve never been able to understand, why boehner didn t go with cuts, balanced budget amendment, send it over there and make barack obama veto it and be responsible if they are going to shut the government down rather than the house. exactly. i think they ve gone about this debt reduction in the wrong way. i don t think you can do serious debt reduction on an economy as large as the united states over a course of just a few weeks or approaching a we agree. deadline or something like that. what the parties need to do is get together and come up with a serious plan, a long-range plan that includes what is going to happen to the american people who have been left out of this argument. that would have been nice, bob. i was down in ohio and going door to door with working america, which is the community affiliate of the aflcio. no one spontaneously raised the debt limit argument or anything else. they were talking about jobs.
get together and come up with a serious plan, a long-range plan that includes what is going to happen to the american people left out. that would have been nice, bob. in ohio and going door-to-door with america, the affiliate of the ci oh, knocking on doors, no one raised the deficits or debt limit argument or anything else. they are all talking about jobs. we need a package that would address the employment crisis and the long-term budget crisis we are facing. that would be hard work. speaking about what s going on overseas, of course the news corp. can we do this now? british prime minister david cameron is joining calls for murdock to withdrawal his take over bid for british sky. a scandal that s targeted as