$250,000 or less and also to extend unemployment insurance and to help lay the groundwork for deficit reduction in the future. right now the expectations have been lowered a great deal in terms of what is actually possible and you heard the president say that he is still optimistic that something can get done before the january 1st deadline and of course, there s a lot of pressure for these lawmakers to get something done because if they don t the economy could go back into a recession eventa you willy. kristen well wiker with the president in hawaii. joining me now from his home district in vermont is peter welsh who is on the phone with us right now. congressman, it doesn t make sense and we were just talking with kristen welker in hawaii. does it make sense that the president is on vacation when we re days away from the fiscal cliff? some voters might be look at that. it s a perception issue and as a practical matter you can do your work wherever you are especially if you re t
diversification between barack obama who is talking about what he is doing like the auto industry bailout, etc. what is mitt romney doing? gloom and doom. that s a perception issue and something people in working class states in ohio and pennsylvania see, feel, understand, and they can feel the pain and we all remember what bill clinton did to connect with people. there is a difference between the two. it s a different vision. i want to go to mitt romney and the health care switch. he is being confronted about the penalty versus the tax issue. take a listen. the supreme court is the final word? they said it was a tax. it s a tax. that s what they say it is. to keep this all in context, romney advised to chuck todd of where it s a mandate or a penalty. what we put in place in massachusetts was a penalty and disagrees with the court, but on tuesday he said on cnn, our
he sort of trotted out that line of citizens united. and as much as i agree that the decision is terrible if & if the mandate is struck down, that s a terrible discussion. there is political peril there, but it s perceived to be, you know, nonideological or ought to be nonideological. it s easier to run against congress or wisconsin s scott walker than the supreme court. it s not just a health care decision. people will see this in the context of bush versus gore, in the context of citizens united. probably going to get a decision on the immigration case that cuts 5-4 in this direction and there is a long-term perception issue, what this court is going to be, retrograde, stick it to the democrats institution. and maybe whatever the immediate reaction is to this decision, i think the long-term legitimacy as kenji said, is at stake. we talk about the institution of the presidency, the
leave. politically, the white house has handled it as good as you can. it s a perception issue. those who defend government in this case are being forced to defend government, the democrats. more so, the party of the federal government than the republicans. they can t afford another sort of scandal that just makes it public shake their head and reinforce cynicism about government in washington. finally, allegations of sexual harassment inside the nrk nk democratic party produced an embarrassing stand off. they host the democratic national convention. david parker is refusing to step down after new reports show he failed for months to address allegations of sexual harassment lodged against the democratic party former director by a junior staffer. it s a mess to the state party. on tuesday, the state governor dodged questions by reporters
it was a stark contrast between the rain and the cold and the discussion and president obama laying golf on holiday vacation in hawaii. and romney did not miss a chance to paint the contrast. she in hawaii, we are in the cold and rain and wind because we care about america and he just finished his 90th round of golf. that is because he has already been elected but romney says, we have 25 million americans out there, out of work, or have stopped looking for work, or underemployed, and home values have come down and when you hear that, gosh, the president is playing golf but many people don t have that luxury or can barely put food on the table. and there is a perception issue that congress has because we have been talking here on fox & friends the last few weeks, about the approval rating between 9 percent and 11 percent and a new poll out this morning,