in that effort. i m not accustomed to seeing political leaders, particularly the president, put on the same pedestal independents with rs and ds. that told me something. it told me that he thinks and probably accurately so that s what s going on with this negotiation is going to play very well with independents. what do you think? absolutely. that was a very political piece. it was his homage to what s happened over the last couple of weeks that has given him really the kind of lepg up in this debate. in the last 24 hours or so, you ve seen sort of a chipping away at that among democrat leadership who are concerned about exactly what is the president negotiating. i think republicans still have some high ground to stand on as well but for the republican s insistence that we focus on spending and focus on those programs that need to be cut. we would be spending much more
about exactly what is the president negotiating. i think republicans still have some high ground to stand on as well but for the republican s insistence that we focus on spending and focus on those programs that need to be cut. we would be spending much more as opposed to talking about how much we re cutting. so both sides will have a little bit to crow about. the question is, what the president is doing is trying to give himself a better position to crow a little louder than republicans. michael steele, thank you for your time. coming up, rupert murdoch s son james has been less than truthful when he testified tuesday before a parliamentary commission in britain. the justice department in this country is investigating whether the murdoch empire broke the law. you re watching hardball only on msnbc.
billion from china, charge it to our grandkids and put it on their credit card to pay off then give that money to millionaires and billionaires, most importantly we continue basically bush economic policy, tax cuts for the rich trickle down. it doesn t work for us. there are good things. i would never dispute that. i appreciate the president negotiating for those, but the tax cuts and the estate tax that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy and ultimately our kids have to pay for. what we re going to see a year from now, two years from now is republicans saying, oh, we got these huge obama deficits, that s what they re going to call them, which have gotten a lot bigger because of the tax cuts. they re going to say, we have these huge obama deficits. we have to start cutting head-start, stop shrinking earned income tax credit, cut more education money, go after social security and medicare. that s what they re going to do. that s why, ed, i have on my website, sherrodbrown.com,
our grandkids and put it on their credit card to pay off then give that money to millionaires and billionaires, most importantly we continue basically bush economic policy, tax cuts for the rich trickle down. it doesn t work for us. there are good things. i would never dispute that. i appreciate the president negotiating for those, but the tax cuts and the estate tax that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy and ultimately our kids have to pay for. what we re going to see a year from now, two years from now is republicans saying, oh, we got these huge obama deficits, that s what they re going to call them, which have gotten a lot bigger because of the tax cuts. they re going to say, we have these huge obama deficits. we have to start cutting head-start, stop shrinking earned income tax credit, cut more education money, go after social security and medicare. that s what they re going to do. that s why, ed, i have on my website, sherrodbrown.com, people can sign a letter that