congressman, good to you have back with us tonight. thanks for having me, ed. you bet. what do you think of mr. boehner s opening of the door about tax cuts? that he would actually vote with democrats on this. well, i think these are just words. i learned a long time ago, not to pay a whole lot of attention to what people say. watch what they do. and that is the real test here. i think that what we ve heard from mr. boehner for a long, long time now is that they ve got a plan for america. i call it the three rs, they want to repeat, they want to reject, and they want to repeal. they want to repeal those laws that we ve already put into place to close these loopholes so we can create jobs here in america. they want to reject president obama s middle-class tax cuts. and they want to repeat the blowing up of deficit which is what we re to do if entries or extend president bush s tax cuts. $700 billion deficit increase.
that s also the view of boehner s number two, eric cantor in the house. the republicans are really back interested a corner here. they have six weeks to get ready for the midterms, threatening to throw the middle class under the bus under defense of tax cuts for the rich. does it make sense? the democrats are looking to expose the republicans true loyalties with this new dnc commercial hitting boehner. do you think republicans have no plan for the economy? it s not true. john boehner opposes funding for government jobs, jobs for teaches, for cops, for firefighters. boehner has a different plan. tax cuts for businesses. those that shift jobs and profits overseas, saving multinational corporations $10 billion. so did china, india and mexico, boehner has a message, you re welcome. the democratic national committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. joining me now is south carolina congressman, jim clyburn, the house majority whip.
rather than adopting the president s tax cut, which will be for 98% of the american people, 97% of small businesses, and that s the way to go. because moody s report has reported about bloomberg this morning. it just told us what happened the last time we did this. told us that we failed to learn the lessons of our history, we re bound to repeat them. and we seem as if mr. boehner has not learned anything from what happened to our economy when we adopted the bush plan. yeah. the economy went into the ditch. the deficit blew wide open. people lost job, 8 million jobs were lost. we are trying to do something to create jobs in this country, put people back to work so they can buy homes, buy automobiles, and help turn the economy which is what we want to do.
welcome back to the the ed show. the battleground story tonight, well the tan man, mr. bane sergetting it from all sides after his ash parent flip-flop on tax cuts. after beating the drum about not letting tax cuts for the wealthiest americans expire, boehner went on the sunday shows and said that, well, he would be willing to compromise. yeah, right. at the only option they have is to vote for some of those tax reductions, i ll vote for them. but i d been making the point now for months that we need to extend all the current rates for all americans. uh-oh, boehner s out of family. boehner s possible compromise on tax cuts, isn t sitting very well with republicans. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says every republican senator will oppose any plan that didn t extend the tax cuts for the top 2%, the rich.
that s not what the american people want. yeah. and so i think we not going to let mr. boehner hide behind his words. we re going to sign on his actions. okay. well, the president was in cleveland just last week. made a strong pitch for tax cuts for middle the middle class. absolutely. and i kind of sense that maybe the republicans went home and got an earful on this vacation, this work vacation, did some polling and found out that they re on the wrong side of the issue. maybe they have to give a little bit. is this a soft underbelly for them, what do you think? that s exactly right. in fact, i went to cleveland the day after the president was there. went over to canton, ohio, youngstown, cincinnati, and i can tell you that the president s proposals are resonating throughout ohio, and i really believe that mr. boehner, being a representative from ohio, got an earful and that s why we heard what he said on sunday. but, still, he s not given up on extending this tax cut to th