planning on going home without dealing with the issues in which case they will have raised taxes. i ll look forward to republicans going forward after raising taxes on not just the rich, but everybody. jim, you ll have to have a vote. i think the argument from the senator is correct. they are going to do a tax vote today. we are going to do a make it work in america vote on the house today. i hope john will vote for that. you re not going to vote on that today in the house, not on the tax issues. no. in the senate. in the house we ll vote on make it in america stuff, creating jobs. you re not talking about the tax cut bill. you re talking about produce goods in america bill, american made bill, not this tax bill. i m telling you we re going to do some things before we go home that i think you should be voting for. john, let me ask you this
and republican national committee chairman michael steal who yesterday kicked off his fire pelosi bus tour in virginia told republicans to rally behind o donnell. i don t know if she can win until we try. how can you claim defeat before you attempt victory. this makes no sense. it makes no sense. so stop it. stop it. okay. a lot of negativity there. meanwhile o donnell and sarah palin are fighting back against those questioning her chances, specifically former bush adviser karl rove. i am perplexed about what s going on with karl rove. all he has to do is go to my website and he sees all those accusations that he s continuing to put out are not true. i am very perplexed and n wonder does he want a democrat in that seat? i have nothing against karl rove personally.
those are jobs. well, we want safe drilling in the gulf. we think generally the record has been pretty good. this is an interesting point for today because republicans and democrats agree on this. all along the gulf coast we believe we can have safe oil and gas, domestic drilling. in the same waters, we fish, we swim, we recreate. we have hotels and motels. now, this accident was terrible. it was horrible. it never should have happened. it may be human error. we don t know. the fact is we ve got to get america back to work ef every where m. the gulf coast we have to start drilling again, both in shallow water. this accident happened in deep water. i m holding a hearing today. we hope to get bipartisan support. maybe we can do a jog on this today. speaking of getting america back to work, obviously a big debate going on right now about tax cuts. we ve had the r&d tax cuts and other tax cuts, we ve all said sounds like a great idea and we wish would have been done a year and a half a
whooped when she won, you said. shelly did, too. yet there will be some time in a year or two if democrats maintain control of the senate by one vote that a supreme court nomination is going to come up. and instead of having orrin hatch, chairman of the judiciary committee, you ll have a senator from vermont, leahy. will you be whooping at that point that mike castle is not there to cast a vote with republicans? no. because frankly i think that s one of the big issues and we ll have a real battle on that. is it less likely that republicans will control that debate now? this is a better shot if we take mike castle. they re not the ones that decide anymore. the people out in delaware, all those good folks came out and said, look, you re not going to tell us who our nominee is going to be. i understand that. there are problems. we like this gal.
the beltway, outside of new york city is people don t wake up in the morning saying, hey, i want to get my tax cuts, keep my tax cuts in vogue, but i also want the rich to be hosed going forward. they don t care. take care of me. that s what they re doing up there in that building. they do, they just want to get out of town having put this behind them. all right. let s get to a little news. one of of your favorite candidates, establishment candidates. talking about christine mcdonald. o donnell. same thing. starting the pledge their support for christine o donnell s general election campaign after initially turning their back ps on the tea party candidate. following her upset win in the delaware senate primary tuesday, senate republicans said she would not be getting help from them. but yesterday national republican senatorial committee chairman john cornyn said in a written statement that o donnell would have the nrsc support. that s conviction, as well as the maximum, $42,0