states should have the right to define marriage in a traditional way does not make me a bigot. with two more days of cpac to go, there will be plenty of other memorable moments, i m sure. let s turn to howard fineman prelim analyst and editorial director of the huffington post media group. nice to have you with us tonight. hi, ed. issues to rest. that s what my little note here is. can the republican party put some of these issues to rest like gay marriage and immigration? will they make any forward progress at cpac? your thoughts? well, i don t think they want to put them to rest. i think in a way the the mentality of cpac is also reflected in congress in the mentality of representative paul ryan s budget. he s putting forth the same
things. but they have to respect me too. just because i believe that states should have the right to define marriage in a traditional way does not make me a bigot. with two more days of cpac to go, there will be plenty of other memorable moments, i m sure. let s turn to howard fineman prelim analyst and editorial director of the huffington post media group. nice to have you with us tonight. hi, ed. issues to rest. that s what my little note here is. can the republican party put some of these issues to rest like gay marriage and immigration? will they make any forward progress at cpac? your thoughts? well, i don t think they want to put them to rest. i think in a way the the mentality of cpac is also reflected in congress in the mentality of representative paul ryan s budget. he s putting forth the same thing that lost in the election, the cpac people are basically saying for the most part, for
they? well, they re not willing to talk about it other than loose generalized, terms. you need to get down to the nitty-gritty. they don t do that. but there s many out there that the taxpayers are giving away to very wealthy corporations and individuals not necessarily toward the growing of the economy. there are things that can be done to rein in those loopholes and we need to do it. whether that gives us the money we need to lower the corporate tax rate as we ve closed those loopholes, that s a discussion that needs to be taking place. tim, what do you think? well, we had a budget mark-up last night. we were in until about 11:30 in the evening marking up the paul ryan budget. there was an amendment that said we need to protect the mortgage tax deduction for middle class people. and every republican voted against that democratic amendment. so that shows you where the priorities are. they re not even willing to sit down and say, hey, we re going to protect this mortgage tax dedu
talk about it other than loose generalized, terms. you need to get down to the nitty-gritty. they don t do that. but there s many out there that the taxpayers are giving away to very wealthy corporations and individuals not necessarily toward the growing of the economy. there are things that can be done to rein in those loopholes and we need to do it. whether that gives us the money we need to lower the corporate tax rate as we ve closed those loopholes, that s a discussion that needs to be taking place. tim, what do you think? well, we had a budget mark-up last night. we were in until about 11:30 in the evening marking up the paul ryan budget. there was an amendment that said we need to protect the mortgage tax deduction for middle class people. and every republican voted against that democratic amendment. so that shows you where the priorities are. they re not even willing to sit down and say, hey, we re going
generalized, terms. you need to get down to the nitty-gritty. they don t do that. but there s many out there that the taxpayers are giving away to very wealthy corporations and individuals not necessarily toward the growing of the economy. there are things that can be done to rein in those loopholes and we need to do it. whether that gives us the money we need to lower the corporate tax rate as we ve closed those loopholes, that s a discussion that needs to be taking place. tim, what do you think? well, we had a budget mark-up last night. we were in until about 11:30 in the evening marking up the paul ryan budget. there was an amendment that said we need to protect the mortgage tax deduction for middle class people. and every republican voted against that democratic amendment. so that shows you where the priorities are. they re not even willing to sit down and say, hey, we re going to protect this mortgage tax deduction that so many middle class families take advantage of.