the republicans in the house, big, big losers. the leadership, it is hard to imagine, mark halperin, how the republican leadership in the house of representatives could have mismanaged this process any worse than they did. you forgot big winner, joe biden, or as i call him, joe biden 16. richard said last segment or two segments ago, if the republicans had had a different strategy two weeks ago, they might have had a better chance. last night they had no chance. they lost in part because of the pr fight. leading up to this, they have an even bigger pr loss coming out of this. no doubt about it. tom, the republicans raised taxes for the first time in 20 years on a bill that doesn t cut a dime in spending and a bill that adds $4 trillion to the national debt, a bill that i think might not scare the markets but scare the people that you ve been talking to for years in middle america about this massive debt.
much less popular and the question is, is this a good fight for republicans against the president? this pr fight that they re engaging in or are they playing into obama s hands? we saw with the payroll tax fight at the end of the december, the republican congress didn t do too well and largely, i m not so sure this is a smart fight for them to engage in. dorothy, should they surrender? no, this is different from the payroll fight. yes, it looks piddling, but the point of view, the vision of what this means that the president has taken this on unnecessarily, but deliberately in the name of the campaign is another established snow, this is the most political president to use the offices of the government to his end. and the hypocrisy by harry reid here is off the charts. i mean, he pioneered this strategy to block bush, a lot of the people advisors said you should do what president
much less popular and the question is, is this a good fight for republicans against the president? this pr fight that they re engaging in or are they playing into obama s hands? we saw with the payroll tax fight at the end of the december, the republican congress didn t do too well and largely, i m not so sure this is a smart fight for them to engage in. dorothy, should they surrender? no, this is different from the payroll fight. yes, it looks piddling, but the point of view, the vision of what this means that the president has taken this on unnecessarily, but deliberately in the name of the campaign is another established snow, this is the most political president to use the offices of the government to his end. and the hypocrisy by harry reid here is off the charts. i mean, he pioneered this strategy to block bush, a lot of the people advisors said you should do what president
much less popular and the question is, is this a good fight for republicans against the president? this pr fight that they re engaging in or are they playing into obama s hands? we saw with the payroll tax fight at the end of the december, the republican congress didn t do too well and largely, i m not so sure this is a smart fight for them to engage in. dorothy, should they surrender? no, this is different from the payroll fight. yes, it looks piddling, but the point of view, the vision of what this means that the president has taken this on unnecessarily, but deliberately in the name of the campaign is another established snow, this is the most political president to use the offices of the government to his end. and the hypocrisy by harry reid here is off the charts. i mean, he pioneered this strategy to block bush, a lot of the people advisors said you should do what president
much less popular and the question is, is this a good fight for republicans against the president? this pr fight that they re engaging in or are they playing into obama s hands? we saw with the payroll tax fight at the end of the december, the republican congress didn t do too well and largely, i m not so sure this is a smart fight for them to engage in. dorothy, should they surrender? no, this is different from the payroll fight. yes, it looks piddling, but the point of view, the vision of what this means that the president has taken this on unnecessarily, but deliberately in the name of the campaign is another established snow, this is the most political president to use the offices of the government to his end. and the hypocrisy by harry reid here is off the charts. i mean, he pioneered this strategy to block bush, a lot of the people advisors said you should do what president