i even said this to the press. did you ever think you d see a presidential race where you re choosing between one guy who has millions of bucks in the cayman islands and a swiss bank account and another guy who s invested in america? megyn: joining me now, marc three seven who s a former speech writer for president george w. bush and julie ro begin sky, former adviser to new jersey senator frank i lautenberg and frank lautenberg and a fox news contributor. this is not the first time we ve seen joe biden deliver the message that the other guy, you know, romney, they just don t get you, or the republicans, they don t get the real working class, middle class americans. they don t understand them. this is all in the context of arguing for a tax hike on wealthier americans, marc, and he talked about that wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor folks, they re just as deem as middle class folks, but no one asks them to do anything and that they need to understand better the concept of
among us right now have not been made to pay their fair share because what the republicans are doing is essentially holding their tax breaks hostage megyn: that doesn t explain no one asks them to do anything. i still don t understand. what does that mean, marc? no one asks the rich to do anything? they haven t contributed, they haven t been asked to megyn: he s saying nobody would do the job you do, including me, he says. you know, i m not brave enough, basically. you tell me, marc, but he could be referring to no one asks the wealthy to go out and fight fires that s not what he s saying. [laughter] megyn: i don t understand julie s explanation for the differences no one asks them they re not being asked to pay their fair share is what he s getting at could i get in here, julie? i don t understand julie s explanation either, to be perfectly honest with you. obama s speech, he said to small business owners you people think you re so smart, and you work so hard, the co
what he actually said. but the reality is barack obama has the tax cut increases he has proposed according to ernst & young are going to hit 2.1 million business openers and they re going to kill 710,000 american jobs. this is a man who has presided over the weakest, longest period of sustained high unemployment since the great depression, and he wants toraise taxes on job creators. are you know what i can i megyn: quickly, julie. can i just get in on this? look, barack obama was not there in 2008 when the economy collapsed, george bush was. oh, stop talking about george bush. i m not talking excuse me, you re blaming barack obama for something that is not his fault. he s the president. he s the president today. he was not handed a cadillac economy like bush was. he was handed a dump economy, tu guys don t want to acknowledge despite your job creation rhetoric, there has been no jobs created megyn: we ve got to make that the last word.
capital would make him a better steward of the economy. so i think when you spend $100 million on ads, on class warfare ads and it doesn t move the needle at all, 63% of americans disagree with you, maybe it s a sign you don t understand america. megyn: julie, is this class warfare? i don t think it s class warfare, it s reality. washington is holding middle class tax breaks hostage, basically, because the top 1% isn t getting what they consider to be their fair share. i haven t seen job creation in the ten years since george bush passed his tax cuts, so i don t know where this whole theme is coming from. i will say, look, just yesterday they voted to repeal college breaks for middle class families, tax breaks for colleges, they voted to really drastically lower the earned income tax credit for families, something even ronald reagan thought was a great motivator. so i would say the republican party has moved so far to the right and is so beholden to the koch brothers and others to fu
them that they have lost touch with reality megyn: what do you make, i m going to toss it back to marc, julie, what do you make of the comment that thewell think are just as patriotic, the difference here is no one asked them to do anything? well, i think what he s saying, and sometimes joe biden is not the most eloquent guy, but i think what he was say anything that speech is that, essentially, what we saw yesterday is that the republicans had no problem, and mitt romney supports this, voting to trick the middle class of their tax breaks in order to make the very wealthiest among us megyn: how is he saying, how do can you green that? because i read the entire speech. megyn: no one asked the rich folks to do anything? the same way i gleaned that what barack obama didn t say about small businesses, if you take something out of context, then you can take any phrase and glean what you want. but if you listen to the entire speech, if you read the entire speech as i did, what he w