for their political benefit. it s tough. when you have voices that do this they are treated as sell outs for going over to the democratic side and selling out the movement. you have stories like lisa murkowski who was going along with there is no war on women and she went home to alaska and talked to her constituents and heard from women. she came back sounding a different tune. the more that happens, the more it s possible they start to get this message. sometimes it just takes they wander into these traps and it takes gettingรง this blow back r it to register. the comparable thing may be the pal roll tax where republicans started to pick a fight over how to pay for the payroll extension and realized it wasn t a good idea. that may be where this ends up now. it will be interesting to see. on the violence against women s act thing. on this what thai are using to pay for the student loan thing.
cutting spending and preventing any new tax hikes. so is this something that has to pass congress, or can the white house do it unilaterally? no, it would have to pass through congress, which means it would have to pass through the republican house and as you saw the statement from the speaker s office, they re not too reseptemberive. why? they think any increase on the pal roll tax from $7,000 to $15,000 to over a course of time add ore $100 billion in tacks on employers, small businesses, they say. the best chance this has of passing is if there are enough red state governments who say, look, we desperately need the help that this compromise gives us, we would desperately need to go on with it. then maybe the speaker and the republican leadership in the house would feel some pressure. right now they re unified saying this is a no go in the house of representatives. nbc s luke russert.