i don t know, felt like campaign mode to me, certainly. i remember the last time i heard that tone. the bottom line is here, tax credits for hiring, tax credits for giving raises, more money to hire back teachers, get more people employed, and we can and will pay for this. they ll find the money. and part of the way to do that is to tax the rich more and not tax the middle class by refusing to extend job unemployment insurance. the president making a forceful case for something we heard about when he was on the campaign trail for months and even years and that is the fierce urgency of now. though he didn t use the phrase. the sentiment is certainly back. pass this and pass it now. the american people, the american economy need it now and if you have a better idea, i haven t heard it. john bussy is with us to talk a little bit about right now,
viewers. the intelligence community has not confirmed yet that there are these car bombs out there or anything like that. but what they do have is a specific credible threat that such an operation could be undertaken, specifically by al-qaeda. that s where this intelligence is coming in from and that it would be tied not just to 9-11 anniversary, but potentially some sort of receipt tricks for killing retribution for killing osama bin laden. this is obviously very serious. shep: ed henry, john bussy, your thoughts? bin laden s papers in his home when they captured them after they killed bin laden was speculating, discussions about should there be, how would we do it on the anniversary of september 11? it s important to remember that even with the core of al-qaeda having been killed or kind of spread out as a result of bombing campaigns and effective use of troops in pakistan afghanistan, but there are a lot of franchise operations.
would probably cause congress to go back and deliberate on these things more carefully. they ve always seem to be more best and effective when doing nothing, in this case if they had done nothing they could have saved us more than 2 trillion dollars by letting the bush tax cuts expire. i m not saying that that is going something that i would advocate. just letting the tax rate get back to the clinton era, where we re in an enormous boom in this country and letting us go back there would knock off 2 trillion dollars and the won t car that after the president promised to do that, it s mind-boggling. i think that that kind of comes up in the next phase, but you have to remember back at the end of last year, that was on the table there wasn t the political will to let that happen. shepard: no political will to let anything happen. john, good to see you. john busse from the wall street journal. we re two days from political disaster, at least potential political disaster, politics i
the newest details in the debt deal. the head of the liberal group progressive change committee says seeing a democratic president take taxing the rich off the table, and instead, push a deal that will lead to social security, medicare and medicaid cuts is like entering the bizarre parallel universe. john bussy is with us the assistant managing he had terry of the wall street journal, owned by the parent company this have network. mitch mcconnell can say whatever he wants to say for purpose of politics and keeping people calm. this is divided as we ve seen the republicans, i don t know, that i can remember. and we called what division can produce when boehner had to stop deliberation on his original bill, because he couldn t rally enough. this is the speaker of the house. couldn t rally the forces necessary to get it passed. is he in trouble? i don t know. if we re looking at this now, i think that what jerry was talking about earlier, about the bad things that could happen, real
think that republicans are broadly united. the number of democrats especially under the liberal base that helped to elect president obama are blasting the newest details in the debt deal. the head of the liberal group progressive change committee says seeing a democratic president take taxing the rich off the table, and instead, push a deal that will lead to social security, medicare and medicaid cuts is like entering the bizarre parallel universe. john bussy is with us the assistant managing he had terry of the wall street journal, owned by the parent company this have network. mitch mcconnell can say whatever he wants to say for purpose of politics and keeping people calm. this is divided as we ve seen the republicans, i don t know, that i can remember. and we called what division can produce when boehner had to stop deliberation on his original bill, because he couldn t rally enough. this is the speaker of the house. couldn t rally the forces necessary to get it passed. is he