$700 billion, though. even though the white house likes to say, hey, we have a deficit problem, we dn t want to spend this on tax cuts, the are saying that they will spend that revenue on something else, it s not like they re putting it away in the bank and not going to spend it. doesn t that deficit argument fall flat kanyway? i think we ought to lead with spending restraint. people understand that. then if we get the into this debate senate, will it go to reduce the deficit or not? a lot of the people i talked to who would be affected by this, look, i m patriotic, i want to help the country. if my taxes go up and goes to more spending i don t agree with, that s a different equation for them. you re not running and you re not on the ballot this year, brad ellsworth is and a lot of democrats struggen in these red leaning states. give some advice. what do you do now? you know the cards you have been dealt. what do you do between now and
stimulus, but the president and forced them to build a health care bill entirely on the left. well, and it s kind of actually a romneycare bill, the kind of bill romney and ted kennedy negotiated in massachusetts that romney has run away from. what was great about the president s speech today is he got his voice back. he laid down real dividing lines. do you want a tax cut for the wealthy, or do you want a tax cut for the middle class? do you want to invest in america, help build our roads, help build our railroads, or do you want to continue to let corporations have tax loopholes for shipping jobs overseas? those kind of dividing lines are very similar, by the way, to what harry truman did in 1948, and they give democrats some hope they can come back. here he is on that point saying the republicans going after them on the deficit argument, using it against them, and, again, casting john boehner, the man with the tan, as the enemy of the middle class and a friend of the rich.
worked in the sense it kept the stimulus too small, made it impossible to have a second stimulus, but the president and forced them to build a health care bill entirely on the left. right. well, and it s kind of actually a romney care bill, it s kind of the bill that romney and ted kennedy negotiated in massachusetts that romney s run away from. what was great about the president s speech today is he got his voice back. he laid down real dividing lines. do you want a tax cut for the wealthy, or do you want a tax cut for the middle class? do you want to invest in america, help build our roads, help build our railroads, or do you want to continue to let corporations have tax loopholes for shipping jobs overseas? those kind of dividing lines are very similar, by the way, to what harry truman did in 1948, and they give democrats some hope they can come back. here he is on that point saying the republicans going after them on the deficit argument, using it against them, and, again
what is drehouse s opponent, the man who used to be in the district, got to say about this? right. steve shavot has a very clear answer on this, which is no, no, no, no. no tax increases. take a listen. he s going to talk about keeping the tax cuts for the middle class, but getting rid of the tax cuts for the wealthy. what do you think about that? they re using the typical liberal class warfare. that s what this is all about. they re trying to pit groups of people against each other. and that s just the wrong way to do it. what we ought to do is reduce the level of taxation on all americans. and also those that are creating jobs. can we afford that? can we afford that, though, given the deficit the country faces? we can t afford not to do it. so this, of course, ali, leads into the deficit argument, right? and the deficit argument the democrats are going to say, well, excuse me, how can you be for extending tax cuts, which
minority whip jon kyl just called unemployment insurance a necessary evil. so let s get this straight. kyl has no problem exploding the deficit if it s in the form of a tax cut for the wealthy americans in this country, but when it comes to helping out-of-work americans in a tough economy, the worst in decades, then all of a sudden he gets worried about increasing the deficit. this deficit argument that they are making is totally phony. this just proves all along what i ve been saying in this argument, that the republicans are out of touch, out of touch with reality. they are heartless when it comes to not the unemployed but american workers. i say the conservative movement in this country has put a lot of these people out of work with their steroided attitude when it comes to outsourcing of jobs. these are americans who had a job, and i wish i had a dime for every e-mail i ve gotten from americans who are not working right now because their job went