former gop standard bearer is now detached and in sec collusi seclusion. there s no aide to make his peanut butter and honey sandwiches. romney has told friends he has little interest in helping the republican party rebuild and rebrand itself. for more let s bring in goalldi taylor and karen finney. romney was plan a for winning the fiscal cliff. do they not have a viable plan b ? we have had this counteroffer today but it doesn t seem to go anywhere. i saw a couple reports about how ann romney specifically is taking this loss. you know, no candidate ever plans to lose. you know, we don t plan to pack up and go home. we plan to head to congress. you plan to head to the city council. we plan to head to the white house. so they really did not have a plan b. as for the gop, well, neither
republicans don t back down, the public will see this same mechanism again they want to put their political maneuvering ahead of a common sense middle class approach for the whole country. i think this time will be worse for them than last time and i think the markets can see what s going on. okay. two final points i m sorry, we just don t have enough time but thank you both. next, republicans really did think mitt and paul were going to win, didn t they? might explain why they have no plan b. stay with us. hungry for the best? it s eb. want to give your family the very best in taste, freshness, and nutrition? it s eb. eggland s best. better taste. better nutrition. better eggs. it s eb.
brad because he obviously agreed to lose his hair. john boehner said he was glaber gasted by by the president s offer. what s your response to mr. boehner s offer? i m a little flabbergasted by it. i m really flabbergasted by the introductory sentence in the letter that talks about a status quo election. look, the president is not someone who has run around and tried to have a victory lap, but let s be clear. these issues were debated in the election. the president won overwhelmingly. i mean, this was a big electoral college victory obviously. you know, when it s all said and done, he will probably win the popular vote by 5 million votes. the american people gave judgment on john boehner s plan or so-called plan. they rejected it, and they favored the president s plan. i don t think john boehner should have been surprised at the president s offer, that it was similar to if not identical to what he campaigned on. that s what the american people
three years now on cutting the deficit, on cutting government spending. it s unbelievable to me that when you come down to the 11th hour in the negotiations right now, this party cannot identify any significant cuts of any significant scale in either entitlement spending or discretion yaer spending. it shows you this is a party that can talk the talk but can t walk the walk. to julian s point, last week boehner tossed out the idea of maybe going back to paul ryan s budget. today he tosses out erskine bowles recommendation, aside from the fact he s a plagiarist, doesn t that indicate it s not a constructive and detailed plan. the onus is on the republicans to come up with a response. they failed to do that. what they came to a was erskine bowles plan which is funny for a lot of reasons. we don t have the time to get into it. we don t. it s not their plan. it doesn t deal with the specifics. we will have a moment of clarity, and if during that moment of claire clity the
did they. they didn t expect that this president was going to come out with as strong of a proposal as he did. they thought first term obama was going to show up again, and clearly that wasn t true. you know, the plan that they presented today just isn t serious. it isn t serious if we say you re not going to raise the rates on the top wage earners. it s not serious if it says you re going to make significant cuts and try to tie entitlements to this so-called fiscal cliff which isn t a cliff at all. just like mitt romney wasn t a serious candidate, this is not a serious plan. karen, the president s plan includes talk not just of taxes, but also extended unemployment insurance. there doesn t seem to be any thought in the gop plan. did the gop just literally wake up today and think, right, i know, let s get erskine bowles recommendation to the super committee and throw it out there. i think it s worse than that. you think it s worse? i do. because just in the same way we learn