to grover norquist. have you heard about this? i have. i was curious, though, what howard dean thought about this deal. democrats are upset, governor, that the president may be making a deal with john boehner that doesn t have the type of tax increases that they want. does it sail by the president or should he take the deal? we don t know what the deal is, joe. it s hard to opine about something that nobody knows what s in it. harry reid has a pretty good idea and so do democratic leaders in the house that there aren t increases in taxes along the lines that they wanted. the bush tax increases don t come into effect. well, again, joe, i mean, what does go into effect? look, the principle here is you got to have increase in revenues and also budget cuts. and that spreads the pain from people who make a million dollars all the way to people who are barely getting by which is what that s the core
perhaps some of the worst legislation in the history of this country. the senate is scheduled to stay in session this weekend to work on a deficit bill. the house, however, will not be in session. yesterday harry reid slammed house republicans for their decision to take the weekend off. we ll move on now, though, to grover norquist. have you heard about this? i have. i was curious, though, what howard dean thought about this deal. democrats are upset, governor, that the president may be making a deal with john boehner that doesn t have the type of tax increases that they want. does it sail by the president or should he take the deal? we don t know what the deal is, joe. it s hard to opine about something that nobody knows what s in it. harry reid has a pretty good idea and so do democratic leaders in the house that there aren t increases in taxes along the lines that they wanted. the bush tax increases don t come into effect.