it s almost on the verge of political negligence recklessness. there is no question bad numbers. millions of republicans didn t vote. millions of republicans didn t d. not turn out to vote. bad numbers were floating around. not just the romney campaign but the folks let s not kid ourselves. we lost this election because more people distrusted production than distrusted barack obama. we have got to fix that because barack obama in the next for four years is going to work very hard to consolidate his gains and to put them beyond the reach of one election. is he going to try to create gains that will take a generation to reverse. sure. but 2010, for instance, republicans grew the movement. appealed to people across the board. gender gap. was there not a significant. midterm election. but nevertheless, there was a transformative election. we had winds we have two latino governors.
it s almost on the verge of political negligence recklessness. there is no question bad numbers. millions of republicans didn t vote. millions of republicans didn t d. not turn out to vote. bad numbers were floating around. not just the romney campaign but the folks let s not kid ourselves. we lost this election because more people distrusted production than distrusted barack obama. we have got to fix that because barack obama in the next for four years is going to work very hard to consolidate his gains and to put them beyond the reach of one election. is he going to try to create gains that will take a generation to reverse. sure. but 2010, for instance, republicans grew the movement. appealed to people across the board. gender gap. was there not a significant. midterm election. but nevertheless, there was a transformative election. we had winds we have two latino governors. we have more female governors
cerned about is making sure that there is a bar set, not to give the relief to those making over $200,000. it s absurd situation. there are a lot of small businesses in the country with 5-10 employees, which earn more than $250,000. file on a schedule-c. we have to pay higher taxes. with this tax increase, they will face the marginal rate of 50% and add in the local tax and the rest, they re not going to invest and create jobs if he does this to them. the vote today, nobody expected it to pass. but we hope to get something before it s said and done. do you expect extension of the bush era tax cuts? we will, but is it going to be set at 2 million? or whether they compromise on the time length? two years and revisit the issue. this will be extension. the question is whether it s all of it and be a lot more than below $250,000.
contributor. nice to see you. what happened today if the vote was predicted to have failed. why did it take place? was it a pre-requisite to a compromise? it was a foregone conclusion, they were not going to get the 60 votes they needed to overcome a filibuster. this was democrats going on the record what they want to do. two options, one. $250,000, and one would be a bigger compromise from senator schumer, basically raising that to a million dollars and the republicans wouldn t go for that either. so, now, what i m hearing is that essentially there will be some kind of compromise probably met this week and some, probably permanent extension of two to three years, and then, the following week hopefully vote on it. and iowa democratic senator tom harkin said last week, i think we want to lay it out there. that s what this was for. so now what?
what kirsten is proposing may happen or something else. only the house can say they reject the house cuts for middle class tax cuts and we re in day eight of the christmas holiday shopping season and we re going to have headlines on tomorrow s paper and sunday papers saying the middle class tax cut failed and this is abdication of leadership and can control both houses of congress and if they don t get the issue resolved when they showed up earlier this fall, americans at a time when retailers are looking for a strong shopping season and we have unemployment going up yesterday, to 9.8%, this tax cut issue debated is not good for the economy and not good for job creation. and a handful of democrats disagreed with their party today on this vote. and they have it right? no, in my opinion they don t have it right and i think they re afraid of ramifications from voters and