the sheer greediness that s taking place among a congress that has such an abysmal approval rating? well, while it s true that washington is very close to maryland, it s on our border, i feel 100 miles away, quite frankly, martin, doing the work that the people of maryland elected me to do. i think every democratic governor is focused on the things that we can do to create jobs, to expand opportunity, and to make the tough choices now that move our country forward. this republican congress breaks down more than the old car that i owned in high school. it seems like every two months, they re threatening shutdown. and it s really a shame. because over the the country has so much resilience and the country really deserves better than the gridlocked sort of business as usual that we ve been seeing all year from the republican congress. not one job bill have they taken out. you ve been quite vocal in your support of the president, and his bringing the war in iraq
welcome back to politics nation. the fight for fairness is on and the top democrat on the other side of capitol hill, james clyburn, assistant democratic leader is here to talk about the fight. congressman, we saw you get bombarded with republican talking points on fox news earlier today. yes. but i had to ask you, what do you make of the gops priorities in the fight overtax cuts for the working class? well, thank you so much for having me, reverend. i had a little fun with them today because i wanted them to know that there should be some substance to their slow begans. fair and balanced. let s have a tax plan that is fair. let s have a program going forward that is, in fact, balanced. as you know, we have been trying now to do the presidential s job
resolve the issue, a future help. saying it is time to push through the president s job bill because that would guard against the european virus spreading anymore. but as you saw on fox news sundayest with republican leader cymosaing they are not going to go for an extension of the payroll tax cart the jobs bill is still stalled. i wanted to tell you i bumped into so many on thanksgiving weekend saying tell ed henry what a great addition she to fox and i said, of course, what about me? they love you. guest: that is good to hear but i am sure it comes back to the affable neil neil cavuto. neil: that is fine.
potentially have their income tax rates reduced a little bit by the elimination of those or reduction in the value of those so-called loopholes as they apply to anybody who itemizes their tax. just make one more point. nothing new came out of this from the democratic side it was the same thing. raise taxes, pass the president s job bill, no entitlement reform. on the republican side you had the one true brkthrough and that was this new concept of tax reform, which could generate revenue, from the upper brackets, fo deficit reduction. lower the upper brackets, do far less than democrats wanted on new net tax increases, and extend the bush tax cus. and by the way, house republicans were probably not going to vote for that anyway. david, yes. in fact i think this bill, the toomey proposal would even pass the united states senate. which iscontrolled, as you know, by the democrats. hear what we were saying. there would be a net new amount of revenue, $250 billion of which would go tow
inspire magazine. that is the al qaeda magazine, an online magazine, which tells interested people how to do these kind of things. we are told by the source that the man had acquired all material and was even going so far as to drill holes in a pipe bomb. he was going to use homemade ingredients in order to detonate this device and the device, had he put it together correctly, would, in fact, have worked. we re being told that he planned to target service men, men service men and women returning from iraq. he also intended on targeting police stations or post offices, and again, this is a pipe bomb and had it gone off, it could have killed close to a dozen people, especially if he attached things like nails. he was following instructions from this al qaeda-based magazine on this website. we are told that there was an informant who was monitoring this person, who was involved. this is the man who has been on the nypd radar for about two years, don, and they decided to go i