astonishingly negative attacks on romney. you mentioned 50,000 of them in june. a surrender on economic issues as a whole, on the macro economic. bret: jeff, the white house saying this is necessary. but there is a split on this number. even within the democratic party. $250 ,000. today, the democratic senator chuck schumer says he stands with the president. previously, senator schumer said this about the threshold. there are a lot of people who make above $250,000 who aren t rich. property is more expensive, taxes high, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. bret: 2011, he said this , in the eyes of mitt s hard to ask more of households making more than $250,000 or $300,000 a year. in large part of the country that income does not get you a big home or a lot of vacations or anything else that is associated with wealth. it also would effect too many
or pass opinion wisdom or fairness. in dissent read by justice kennedy believed to be the swing vote and here he sided with the dissent in a joint dissent. to say that the individual mandate merely imposes a tax is not to interpret the statute but rewrite it. he says the judicial tax writing is particularly troubling. let s bring in the expanded panel tonight. judge andrew napolitano, fox news senior judicial analyst. jeff zelney for new york times. a.b. stoddard of the hill. and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. okay, judge, your thoughts. this is the driving a camel through the eye of a needle. circuitous route for which the majority took the law to justify it. in the very phrase in which the majority calls it a tax, it refers to it as a penalty. the constitution start on the
this takes the ample of recent polls 45.7 to 44.9. that is where we are. the panel, charles lane, opinion writer for post. jeff zelney national political correspondent for new york times. syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. chuck, the line the president used about this is all baked in the cake. the republicans ordered a steak dinner an walked away on the bill. does it sell? i m confuseed whether they ate the steak before they left or not. you wasn t entirely clear. i don t think it sells so much anymore. actually, there is plenty of truth to what he said. the real truth is the recession what blew a hole in the federal budget. i think after three years in office, people are looking for more of an explanation how we get out of this than how we got into it. that seems i think to be what a lot of people including a lot of democrats are concerned about in terms of the campaign message. the lack of something positiv
jackson and other people before him and ahead of the union, compared scott walker to 9/11. which caught me by surprise. i was taken aback by that. people in the audience applauded and thought it was appropriate thing to say. that underscore what is jeff is saying. the state is unbelievably divided. growing up here, as i did, you know, you pull up to noncontrolled intersection with no stop sign and you sit there for ten minutes because people in wisconsin are so courteous. you go first, no, you go first. today, people don t want to talk to the neighbors about the politics necessarily. you see people who have had a year s long relationship severed because of the recall. bret: this which is a challenge for mayor barrett trying to tap in the emotion and the anger about walker reform. saying i m going to be moderate and bring the state
hours and hours of energy. bret: welcome back to madison. mickies darely bar. we ll bring in the panel. travelling wisconsin, looking at the recall election tuesday. joining me, chris stirewalt, fox news politics digital. jeff zelney, new york times. national political correspondent. steve hayes, stand stand. jeff weeklystandard. jeff, start with you. you travelled around. your sense for how it s shaping up for tuesday? my sense is more people are engaged in this, than you can imagine.