sorry. welcome back. come on. he loves what the president said yesterday. the president was making a really good point. howard loved it. i do. howard dean is with us. talk about the speech yesterday. how great you think the president was. i think it was a very good speech and i ll tell you why. everybody knows the republicans are in the tank for the corporations and all that stuff. that s what they believe. they do. i m not trying to be partisan here. i love you. you know i love you joe, look at the polls. the republican congress is at 12% of the polls. there is a reason for that. okay. so the president so everybody knows that. what they really need, what they really want is strong leadership. right. and somebody who believes in them. so what does the president do? he lays out a plan which taxes people who make a zlillion dollars a year which everybody thinks is important. yeah. whatever. $250,000 for the people who are losing their jobs right now is, yo
focus is getting the president re-elected next year, bringing his numbers up with independents, is this a good political move? no. i agree with mark penn and the paper today. i think it s a bad move for independents. if i am a democratic strategist though i think most will like it because they went to the college of class warfare. that s how they ve run a lot of campaigns in the past. this is a very comfortable point of view for them. it s close to the gore playbook. so it s like a security blanket but i think it s a strategic matter, he is risking losing the middle where the republicans are very challenged where he has an opportunity. so i think this actually when we look back is a, going to be a point of failure in his campaign not a point of success but we have to wait and see. do you agree, mike sf. i am inclined to agree with almost anything that mike murphy says at any point in time, always. by the way, mike murphy, did you know we shared one of your tweets last week abou
murphy i tweeted a lot of jokes. i loved it. you remember the tweet? get the tweet ready, guys. we need to show it again. off of what mike murphy said. yeah? i want to know and i ve been mystified for several months by this in terms of class warfare, common sense, politics, whatever. right. who are the job creators? i mean, who are they? the republicans keep talking about we can t tax the job creators. right. who are these people? where are they? mostly they re small business owners. over 60% of new jobs come from small businesses. they re all over the country. they re not the big global corporations. they re moms and pops and small businesses who hire the first ten people. then as they grow they add the 11th and the 12th and they double in size. those are the ones who have been clobbered by obama care, are being clobbered by the regulatory policies and who obama wants to tax higher. and back to joe s question about, is it good politics? i think mike murphy is 100%
good morning, guys. let s pick up on the conversation we re having about class warfare. that s the accusation from republicans reacting to president obama s speech. last night at a fundraiser in new york, surrounded by a bunch of rich people he took on the idea of class warfare. what did he say? the president is doubling down on it. he is saying you want to accuse me of class warfare? bring it on. he says that if millionaires and billionaires want to be out defending themselves, that he s willing to have that fight. from what we see in the president s remarks last night are the fact that he s eager to go out and talk about this. what we re going to see over the coming weeks is the president in state after state, day after day, going out and saying, i m trying to fight for these job measures, these tax measures, these tax cutting measures. they re trying to stop me. that could be pretty good political strategy, right? just keep hammering it, throwing things out there that indepe
an employee shouldn t have to go on the government exchanges. which is what the president promised wasn t going to happen. it is going to happen. it s a very good thing for the economy. mike murphy, i ve also talked to, and let s go ahead and move to obama care while we re at it, i ve also heard people that run the largest corporations in america say, you know what? carry for five or six years but at some point just going to turn it over to the government. which i guess is what the democrats wanted all along. you re not really turning it over to the government. that s not fair. if i had my way, we would have. the insurance companies, i don t think it s so great. the fact is the government is subsidizing care for the insurance companies which is exactly what the republicans did when they started part d of medicare. this is a bipartisan approach. large companies love the idea of offloading health care costs on the taxpayer. they love any corporate health care including obama ca