afternoon for most of us. yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far with temperatures reaching 21.2 in the highlands of scotland. where were the so toasty? that was down to the mountains themselves. most of us had brisk winds, but winds were blocked by the mountains to the sun s energy was concentrated, allowing temperatures to search. most of us, the wind meant that temperatures were not quite so high. more of the same over the next few days with this area of high pressure going nowhere very far for the next few days. although most of us will keep the sunshine this afternoon, there are a few exceptions. cloudier in the south east of england for a time. an odd showers possible. also some cloud across the eastern coast of scotland and north east england. around the coast, temperatures around 10 11, not feeling that warm. the highest temperature be further west. again, in the highlands looking at temperatures climbing into the low 20s. some of you might turn out to be qu
diane swonk, old friend, chief of messere, aux financial. we re talking about the middle class. who represents the middle class in this country. the democrats are trying to make the point with speeches by president obama in the last couple of weeks. democrats are the party of the middle class. republicans are the party of the rich. republicans obviously are struggling with that themselves. david, what s your sense of how republicans are thinksing themselves and who in this country represents the vast majority of people, the middle class. i don t think anybody is doing a very good job of it of the president gave a speech in kansas a week ago in which he tried to stake out this ground. he gave a very good assessment of problems facing middle class americans. his descriptions were really weak. the president s main idea seems to be to have higher taxes on those who earn a lot and to use that money to expand public employment and hope more public employment will create a broad