independent voters he lost are with him on raising taxes on the wealthy. the majority of americans don t believe the rich pay their fair share. doesn t romney s tax return speak to obama s talk on reform? there s a contrast between what president obama and mitt romney are asking of themselves. president obama when he ran for office, his tax return in 06, which was two years before he had become president, his tax rate was 24, 25%. it was almost double what mitt romney s was, barack obama is saying, i pay almost double what mitt romney does, and i think to close the deficit i should pay more. mitt romney is saying, i pay half of what president obama pays and i should pay less. if romney had the same tax return but thought he should
their going to do it better. i have a lot of respect for senator feingold. he s a great guy. been a leader on reform. we re democrats. happens all the time. our view is that republicans are going to have a lot of outside money that s being poured in by karl rove, the coke brothers. when you ve got a guy like romney, he s going to have a lot of money in this race. he may have as much as president obama. there s also dollars funded by rove, the koch brothers. the stakes are too high. there s a republican president in place. impact on the american people could be disastrous. president obama is considering signing an executive
money. president obama has said we need to strengthen our education system if we want to out-innovate and out-educate the global competition. and today he heads to florida to team up with former florida governor jeb bush to focus on reform. so let s bring in now, again, i should say, christine romans, the anchor of your bottom line and she joins me now. so what are the president s plan to fix the education system? well, they re focusing on miami central, a high school that is one of those low-performing schools they ve managed to help try to turn around. through federal grants of $800,000 in this case, managing to try to get this from one of those 1,800 worst of the worst schools in this country to something that s going to be more than just a dropout factory. how do they turn it around at miami central. that will be the focus of this meeting between jeb bush, arne duncan, and the president. they did a couple of things. first, they replaced the principal. nearly half of the staff i
welcome back. house gop moves to privatize medicare. of course. the conservatives are after health care reform now, but as you can see, medicare is up next. reform has already been repealed by house republicans and is moving closer to a vote in the senate. but senate democrats are fighting back. hold i holding hearings on how health reform is helping people from bankruptcy and quite possibly saving their lives. mere s what one witness said about reform. i could never drop off of an insurance plan, because if i did, it would have been almost impossible for me to get back on a plan. paying for my own health care would pretty much bankrupt me. the passage of the affordable
to benefit people when they take away the coverage for pre-existing conditions where you can still get coverage even though you still have a pre-existing position of a child. the law is on the people s side. now they want to take it away? i say put them on the defensive. will there be a vote in the senate on reform? well, mitch mcconnell says he s going to bring it up one way or another. i assume at some he s going to have a vote on it. but i want to see the debate. i want to take them on on this one. esays you re afraid of a vote. i m not afraid of a vote. i would welcome a vote on whether republicans want to take away the protection that people have right now that an insurance company can t cancel their policy if they get sick.