rich. and they do. and jay carney is now saying republicans, oh, they re only going to be happy if they can give rich people tax cuts. now they ve morphed raising taxes to tax cuts for the rich. he s playing out of a 1995 playbook and, yes, they won the election using a class warfare argument and god bless them. they re not going to win reelection. because he s not running again. when s he going to realize that? just a matter of and by the way, jon, i m sorry, he s not running for reelection again, the 225 or 35 republicans are running for reelection. and i would tell every one, if he doesn t come to you with a deal, do not vote to raise taxes a cent. don t do it. don t do it. you ll get beaten and washington will spend that money and they won t cut again and the deficit will be $18 trillion a couple of years from now. okay. now go ahead. why the conversation to some extent isn t about phrases like
and fight. ask phil griffin. we re always we ll get on the phone and we ll yell and kick and scream. but we ll always have the end goal in mind. and i always end up going, what s going to make phil look good? right. what s going to make before jeff now steve burke feel good, like they got the best of me. right. and i m going to give them that, but i m going to take what i ve always wanted all along. and it s money. give them what they want. but it s it s a deal. you figure out what they can give up, they figure out what you can give up and you do the deal and everybody walks away. every deal i ve ever done, everybody walks away feeling like they won. and you know who made a life out of that? was the labor negotiator ronald reagan. yeah. brian cashman s on the phone for you, joe. he s listened to that. he wants to talk to you about how to get rid of alex
that s what i m asking about. yes, and looking at entitlements, that s where we get the long-term certainty for our middle class families that are dependent upon these programs as well as for our economy. and the republicans want want that kind of a deal. that is what president reagan and tip o neill did back in the 80s. and this is our moment, our chance, and my colleagues are right there with me. we believe that we can t just keep having this debate. we might avoid this fiscal cliff, but there s going to be another one right after that. congresswoman, if let s say you get what you need, what republicans need, what conservatives like i would need if i were in your position right now, which is significant reform on medicare. which are significant cuts in defense, significant cuts in discretionary spending. some loopholes closed. if part of the deal was meeting the president halfway, say 37%
you can tell us what s going on in washington. what s going on in washington? bad dynamics. really? those of us optimistic there d be a deal. the white house has blasted boehner s offer as much as the republicans blasted the president s. people like to say, oh, they re going to posture, but behind the scenes they re working it out. they re not. i hear chuck todd reported yesterday behind the scenes a top aide to barack obama, willie geist. and this i don t i m not really good at reading the tea leaves. maybe this is good, maybe this is bad. but a top obama aide yesterday told chuck todd that if the republicans if these republicans were in power when abraham lincoln were there, there would still be slavery. does that help the process move along? or does it hurt? i don t really know reading between the lines. i know one direction, i know boy bands. reading between the lines, that s probably a bad omen. we do have four weeks, though. that s bad. absolutely. we ha
to the podium and he said we re putting revenue on the table. closing the loopholes so that the wealthiest americans would be paying more. okay. so fixing it for the long-term is something i think that everybody wants on both sides of the aisle. i think there is a good amount of concern about our fiscal health as a country. having said that, let me ask about your colleagues in congress. is there something that they can be given that uniformly will have them come to the table for compromise? because the problem is not getting into a room and cutting a deal with boehner. it s boehner bringing it back to you all. and then you all not going there. what is it? and maybe you can t be that specific, but what would it be? and is it possible that there s something that would lead this situation to a compromise? well, the republicans believe that it s not just about the revenue side, but that we must be looking at the spending, the out of control spending, the