inoculate himself and the republican party from the criticism that they are against tax cuts for the middle class. the democrats were inaccurately painting him as someone who is trying to keep the middle class down and he came out and wed look, what else am i suppose to do, i d rather extend them for everybody and he s making the larger point that if democrats said they wanted to inject money into the economy over and over, but the surest way to take money out of the economy is through tax cuts and he s saying let the high wage earners keep those tax cuts because if they do, bill, they will hire and create the jobs for the middle class. the middle class are the ones who need the jobs the most. bill: that s been his argument from the beginning. that s right. bill: what do you think? bill, first he was the party of no, the leader of the party of no, now he s the party of maybe. i mean, the fact is there are many democrats in both of house and senate who said they want to extend all t
that s good policy, that s what we re going to see, but the interesting thing is boehner is is he no or maybe. what we ve seen from the republican leadership in the house for two years is they re the party of no. bill: kelly, did you hear a maybe? even austan goolsbee said this is a qualifier, if my only choice is, dot dot dot. right. right. that s maybe. it s a maybe. but the bottom line is that many democrats in the house and senate have been saying we need to provide continue to provide economic uncertainty and extend these for two years, but i think that s what you re going to see happen. but one other point, leader boehner is the potential new leader of the house, should that house flip. republicans have made a great deal of saying we re going to retake the house. if they do, who s in charge and what are the ideas? we haven t seen a lot of ideas. bill: that fits perfectly into our next topic here. you wonder if that commentmation him look more moderate or bipartisan at a time
the democrats say they re the party of no. let s take a look at the most recent cnn opinion political poll about where tt ng stand. when it comes to the economy, which party can do a better job with the economy? republicans garnered 46%, democrats 43%. on taxes, 46% say republicans as opposed to 43% with the democrats. on the deficit, 46% of republicans, 40% saying democrats could do a better job. with democrats controlling the white house, unemployment remaining high, so much not good right now, mark. do republicans benefit by not being the party in power, not being the party you can blame? if the republicans can take back the house of representatives, take back the senate, b it s not going to be
the republican party needs to sound like they re trying to work with the administrati. there s a lot of argument that they ve offered no solutions. republicans would argue otherwise. republicans are going to win in november, they can t be the party of no. they have to be the party of solutions. house republicans will roll out what they call the contract with america or something similar to that within the next couple weeks. mark preston is part of the best politic tevision. i really like the way you do eg this segment. nice job. thank you, sir. we re keeping a close eye on the tropics as hurricane igor gains strength. it s small, but it s very strong. it s now a category fouray stor. is it on the way to t he u.s.? plus, unsettling news from
susan, politics aside, efforts by the democrats to turn the economy around has cost trillions. don t republicans have a point? well, they have a shot, but i m not sure they have a point yet. and i think justin is right. i d love to see the republicans get way overconfident because that s when you grab from the jaws of victory. i think the republicans have not succeeded in coming up with what newt gingrich came up with in 94, which was an affirmative plan to take to the american people and without an affirmative plan, you re the party of no. julie: justin, john boehner has come out and come up with some ideas on how the republicans could perhaps turn this thing around if they win the election in november. one would be taxes. let s talk about going back to bush s tax cuts. that s his advice and he goes on a step further by saying that small businesses should get a tax break as well.