i hear from people who say that the democratic candidate is running from it even if they voted for it. i think the price you pay is all of the misinformation. you know, lie of the year. this is all a takeover of health care. but that permeates if it is not responded to. here is what we learned from 2010. the more people know about this, these patient protections, the more popular the patient protections are. we learned that from 2010. we are articulating tonight 2012. and i have said to all of our candidates, if you think the strategy to winning an election is to defend or to run away from this, that strategy in 2010 didn t work. the strategy is we should be running on it because as people know more about it, becomes more popular and today s washington post poll is proof of that. thank you, congressman steve israel. republicans and democrats spent hours today debating the merits of the president s health care law. here was speaker of the house john boehner and minority leader n
important they are and to growing i would say you are the exception. i think that you are the exception to the rule. because i just don t hear it. for a living i take phone calls from all across the country. i hear from people who say that the democratic candidate is running from it even if they voted for it. think think the price you pay is all of the misinformation. you know, lie of the year. this is all a takeover of health care. but that permeate it is it is not responded to. here is what we learned. the more people know about this, these patient protections, the more popular the patient protections are. we learned that from 2010. we are a thelating tonight 2012. and i have said to all of our candidates, if you think the strategy to winning an election is to defend or to run away from this, that strategy in 2010 didn t work. the strategy is we should be running on it because as people know more about it, becomes more popular and today s washington post poll is proof of th
and increased their prescription drug prices. i would not like to explain why i have put insurance company profits ahead of the middle class. they started the majority by voting to end medicare. they re going to end the majority by repealing patient protections to help insurance company profits. on the tax issue, should every democrat get on the same page and support the president and go home and campaign on what he talked about yesterday? i think every democrat needs to coalesce to continue to middle class tax cuts. that s what the president said. i wish we could find the right balance and compromise with the republicans. if we said it s a million, they would say no, if we said a billion, they would say no. they re saying no to everything. we need to create jobs, protect the middle class and move on. good to have you with us. a lot more coming up in the next half hour of the ed show. stay with us. your right to vote, it s one thing you never want to miss out on.
even if it undermines the middle class. they ll keep doing it for as lock as they have the majority in the house of representatives. they ll do it every day if they have to until they protect the insurance company profits even if they re taking away important patient protections from the middle class. house democrats want a vote on comprehensive legislation to create jobs to strengthen the middle class. house republicans want to move backwards and vote 31 times to repeal an important patient protections that help the middle class. that s the difference between us. and that s why there s this buyer s remorse that puts the house in play. new jersey governor chris christie calls it extortion. here it is. obamacare on midcade to the states is extortion. it said you expand your program to where we tell you. if you don t, we re taking the rest of your money away. that s extortion. what s your response to that. extortion is taking
budget that took medicare away from senior citizens and will end the majority by voting endlessly to repeal patient protections for the middle class. that s what they do here and what they care about. all the republicans lined up, you had five great ranks. why five? look, you know, we have a diverse caucus and we have members of congress in our caucus and who represent conservative districts and progressive districts. i don t think we should be held accountable for five democrats that voted differently. i think the republican majority should be held accountable important the fact that every single one of them voted in lock step with the big insurance companies to protect those insurance company profits and instead tell middle class constituents that all of the protections if they have now have been taken away. if you are a woman with breast cancer, today the republicans voted to take away the protection from the insurance companies saying it is a pre-existing condition. i want to