bainer and mitch mcconnell, about the last two to three percent where on average we d be giving them $100,000 for people making a million dollars or more. the two to three percent mentioned by the president are people making more than $250,000 per year. that s why i m introducing legislation today that ensures that no one in this country will pay higher income taxes next year than they are right now. reporter: republicans and a growing number of moderate democrats would like to see the bush tax cuts due to expire at the end of this year extended for at least another year for everybody, arguing the recovery is too fragile to increase taxes on anybody. independent senator joe lieberman of connecticut makers this argument. i want them to have the confidence that we re not going to raise their taxes so they go out and spend all of that money and what happens when they spend? jobs are created. that s what we need. reporter: fox news has obtained a draft of a letter from some rank
defend what they have done with the economy over the last 18 months. on the senate side you have to get through the senate anyway, five moderate democrats already on the board saying we want all the tax cuts extended. and be tough to get to 60, wouldn t it, in the senate. maybe, but why give it up in the house. it s tough to give the 40 plus house democrats to vote, charles reasonably laid out, to vote for a tax increase on the wealthive. i think it s a mistake tactically for boehner to show his hand. we re not voting for any tax increase, only the middle class raets where they are, is to vote implicitly for a tax hike on the wealthy, as soon as you give us a majority we will come in and retroactively repeal this and hold taxes where they are. i would be tougher on it, it s a tactical issue and political issue, at the end of the day, the democrats are in disarray as well as, all the more reasons for the republicans to
remember, if you asked voters what do you think about democrats in congress, way down there, but republicans in congress are even lower. bret: quickly to new hampshire and the setup there. there, sarah palin endorsed ayotte, who s quite conservative, attacked from the right, i think unjustly so. i think she ll win, and i think that castle may pull it out in delaware,s been governor and elected state wide. i think he s more popular than a republican who has no roots in the state and delaware republicans can even if you re very conservative delaware republican you can honestly say to yourself, you know what we prefer to have 51 u.s. senators and a good chance that mike castle to be one of those and a small chance that christine o donnell can be. bret: in the polls it continues to pick up. in the past the insurgent candidates if he or she is close on election day, has won. i don t know in delaware, i
their leadership speaker nancy pelosi, and majority leader steny hoyer to extend the tax cuts for all brackets. the lawmakers are looking for more members to sign the letter and are expected to present it to their leadership tomorrow. bret. bret: mike emanuel live on the north lawn. thanks. the tax battle has put a new focus on the man who could soon be second in line to the presidency. correspondent james rosen reports on the sniping between the current president and the man who would be the top dog in the house. for the second week in a row, president obama zeroed in on the house g.o.p. leader painting him as unsympathetic to tonight s, teachers and state and municipal workers facing layoff. john boehner who wants to be the next speaker of the house, if the republicans take over, he specifically said well, these are just government jobs and they re not worth saving. now, it s just not smart from an economic perspective for us to allow a whole bunch of those jobs that are right he
gingrich said much the same thing on fox news sunday, that republicans have got to pass any tax cut as long as there s no tax hike attached to it to fund it, that anything that would allow the white house to get behind the tax cut has to be passed by republicans who want to be in the posture of saying, we support tax cuts for the american middle class, but what the white house has done is put republicans in a posture, now, i think the president and the democrats are going to be able to say we delivered for middle class voters, and we protected you against tax cuts for the very rich. that s not i mean, to me this is smart mre politics by the white house, a last gasp effort because they ve got nothing else going at the moment as we approach november. it seems to me the first time the republicans are on the defensive and the white house can go out and say boehner versus mcconnell, you know, forget the conservative democrats that you mentioned, by the way. bret: right. they re not in