extension of the payroll tax holiday so make sure that people would not have their taxes race raised when they art there trying to make this through the month. we would like to have seen it done in a way that we could reduce spending while at the same time affording the tax relief. chris: but you didn t. well, $100 million. every time we tried to advance that harry reid in the senate and the president they just want to play politics with it. chris: why did you agree? at the end of the day i don t think it is a good idea to allow taxes to go up on working people. a payroll tax says we will increase taxes on everybody that has a job. i don t think that is what we need to do. chris: looking forward just before new year s a white house spokesman said this about the president s relationship with congress in 2012. take a look. in terms of the of essential must to items the payroll tax cut extension is the last one. comemancongressman, are you doe legislating for 2012?
republicans gave up on all their objections and passed the payroll tax cut extension. i see what both karl and what both of these men are saying is that essentially depending on the poll that you look at you see a lot of different things. look at the fox news battleground poll you see obama doing better just from a couple of weeks ago, previously swing state polls were showing obama losing because he wasn t doing well with independents. a lot of that is because of what is going on in the primary which is right now you have santorum at the front which is somebody who really alienates a lot of independents and even romney was really being hurt by the fight with gingrich being so negative scaring off independents. right now they are in a great position and if they can keep this message going on with this fight over contraception and the other issues around women i think the obama campaign sees this as a positive for them. chris: karl, the president submitted a budget this week that
republicans gave up on all their objections and passed the payroll tax cut extension. i see what both karl and what both of these men are saying is that essentially depending on the poll that you look at you see a lot of different things. look at the fox news battleground poll you see obama doing better just from a couple of weeks ago, previously swing state polls were showing obama losing because he wasn t doing well with independents. a lot of that is because of what is going on in the primary which is right now you have santorum at the front which is somebody who really alienates a lot of independents and even romney was really being hurt by the fight with gingrich being so negative scaring off independents. right now they are in a great position and if they can keep this message going on with this fight over contraception and the other issues around women i think the obama campaign sees this as a positive for them. chris: karl, the president submitted a budget this week that
extension of the payroll tax holiday so make sure that people would not have their taxes race raised when they art there trying to make this through the month. we would like to have seen it done in a way that we could reduce spending while at the same time affording the tax relief. chris: but you didn t. well, $100 million. every time we tried to advance that harry reid in the senate and the president they just want to play politics with it. chris: why did you agree? at the end of the day i don t think it is a good idea to allow taxes to go up on working people. a payroll tax says we will increase taxes on everybody that has a job. i don t think that is what we need to do. chris: looking forward just before new year s a white house spokesman said this about the president s relationship with congress in 2012. take a look. in terms of the of essential must to items the payroll tax cut extension is the last one. comemancongressman, are you doe legislating for 2012?
bad, mine good. there mother mine don t have to be paid for, bush tax cuts do and i m going to complain until the end of time. that s what he wants and frankly due to his own rhetorical skill. pretty good at getting away with it and in addition to the media bias plays a part as well, but he does tend to have it both ways on a lot of issues and i think he ll continue on. and the republicans are in a tough spot there. if they opposed payroll tax cut extension, they re hammered as the party against the middle class. and if you have to off set it or won t and democrats wouldn t go for it with fairly easy thing like freezing frl pay, i think a good solution and democrats wouldn t go for it, but the president is hunky-dory with that being unpaid for. we ll see this, the tension of the bush tax cuts the end of the year, the president in 2010 pushing for the extension is going along with it, even