welcome back to the ed show. president obama has put house speaker john boehner and republicans in a box on fiscal cliff negotiations. and the evidence is mounting. president obama stayed on offense today, visiting the santana family in northern virginia whose taxes will go up more than $4,000 in 2013 if middle class tax cuts aren t extended. i m encouraged to see that there s been some discussion on the part of republicans acknowledging the need for additional revenue. as i ve indicated, the only way to get the kind of revenue for a balanced deficit reduction plan is to make sure that we re also modestly increasing rates for people who can afford it. folks like me. just to be clear, i m not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2%.
welcome back to the ed show. president obama has put house speaker john boehner and republicans in a box on fiscal cliff negotiations. and the evidence is mounting. president obama stayed on offense today, visiting the santana family in northern virginia whose taxes will go up more than $4,000 in 2013 if middle class tax cuts aren t extended. i m encouraged to see that there s been some discussion on the part of republicans acknowledging the need for additional revenue. as i ve indicated, the only way to get the kind of revenue for a balanced deficit reduction plan is to make sure that we re also modestly increasing rates for people who can afford it. folks like me. just to be clear, i m not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2%.
that s what america believes in. i see, instead, a prosperity that comes through freedom. the president is back on the trail as well. and he is a lot more fired up than he was last night. ed henry is live for us in denver. ed, he seemed to immediately go on offense today. that s right. trace. immediately going on the attack, in fact, and that sort of undermines the argument from some of the president s top advisors that he did just fine in this debate. he seemed to realize he has got some work to do and immediately rolled up the sleeves, started hitting mitt romney and got some comfort by the way in these big rallies. one in denver he got 12,000 people here. in madison, wisconsin, 30,000 people. huge crowd. better reception than he he did last night. did he a little do-over. why he did not counter punch last night against mitt romney today he went on the attack. take a listen. i know it couldn t have been mitt romney. because the real mitt romney has been running around the
economic populism within a religious tradition. i say this as somebody whose voice is hoarse because i have given dozens of speeches in the last few months. it is easy to go out and talk to people who agree with you. i was in greensboro, north carolina, just last night. all right. we had 9,000 people out. mostly they agreed with me and tonight, we re going to be in manassas and thousands out and they agree with me. that s not hard to do. but it is harder, but not less important, for us to try and communicate with those who do not agree with us on every issue. [ applause ] that is what bernie sanders looked like on offense today. many clinton backers are worried she seems something more like stuck income neutral campaign aides is calling iowa backers
what is what bernie sanders looked like on offense today. many clinton backers are worried that she seems something more like stuck in neutral. campaign aides calling iowa backers, reassuring them that they have a long-term strategy, according to a buzz feed news report. she debuted her own snl style impression of donald trump on the trail today. i have to admit, donald trump is entertaining. i have to tell you. i really do. i really do find it entertaining. and, you know, i kind of wish i had that same sort of mentality like, oh, listen, i don t need to tell you anything. when i get there peace will be breaking out everywhere. prosperity will be raining down upon you. we will have the new age. well, i would like to do that. but i don t think that s how a great democracy makes its decisions about who is going to lead us. joining us now is columnist