come on. this is just so absurd, this whole notion he s written off 47% of the country. the fact it s what he said. the new gallup poll that came out today said that president obama has 47%, mitt romney has 47%. i know very well actually what governor romney said, martin, and the fact of the matter is he said there s no way these 47% of these people are going to vote for him. ron is cherry picking now. what he actually said is he characterized those people. he gave them certain conditions and he described them as entitled, dependent. yes. and victims. all of that is what s proved offensive. he made a value judgment about those people, ron. that s the problem. he made a value judgment about how much people pay, and he also doubled down on that by saying, you know, that s why to those people, those people, the idea of my plan for lowering their tax rates is not so interesting. i mean, that totally disrespects the work that the people
idea here about government working for people and getting this country back to work, and you have another idea and i waited a while exemplified by mitt romney in a private moment of candor where he sounded even more cold than you, although i think you both sound cold, where the attitude is screw these people, we don t care about them politically. they re moochers, they re takers. that s the attitude. i think it sounds cold. i m glad to see that it s being rejected by the public because sometimes this tough talk works. it doesn t seem to be working right now. i m afraid we have to call it a day, but ari, i want to you let your parents know that they brought you up exceptionally well because you have been polite and waited for your opportunity. so thank you so much. karen finney, ron christie, ari, thank you all. next, more on the worst week ever for team romney. stay with us. the first step to a stronger medicare is to repeal obama care because it represents the worst of bot
0 ever known how do you know it s been a bad week for the republican presidential nominee? that s when willard mitt romney wants to change the subject to his tax returns. yes, you heard me right. that s how bad things have become for mr. romney. the meeting went something like this. someone on the campaign suggested bringing out a whiteboard on an airplane tarmac. that got shot down. they ve already done the veep rollout. too late, i guess, to do that again. a foreign trip? i don t think that s such a good idea. the entire foreign front has proved a complete and utter disaster. but then came the eureka moment. one hour ago, 3:00 p.m. on a friday afternoon to be exact, the campaign decided it would finally release the romneys full 2011 tax returns. mitt and ann paid $1.95 million in taxes on his 2011 investment income of $13.7 million. an effective rate of just over weekend about the fact that seniors are not buying the snake oil that they are trying to sell to them. i have never s
how do you know it s been a bad week for the republican presidential nominee? that s when willard mitt romney wants to change the subject to his tax returns. yes, you heard me right. that s how bad things have become for mr. romney. the meeting went something like this. someone on the campaign suggested bringing out a whiteboard on an airplane tarmac. that got shot down. they ve already done the veep rollout. too late, i guess, to do that again. a foreign trip? i don t think that s such a good idea. the entire foreign front has proved a complete and utter disaster. but then came the eureka moment. one hour ago, 3:00 p.m. on a friday afternoon to be exact, the campaign decided it would finally release the romneys full 2011 tax returns. mitt and ann paid $1.95 million in taxes on his 2011 investment income of $13.7 million. an effective rate of just over 14%. the release showing just how fraught the romney campaign must be with seven days to go before early voting begins in
start in service because i worked with folks who had been laid off from the steel plants when jobs started getting shipped overseas and over the last ten years we ve seen that happen more and more. too many families struggling with costs that keep rising. even when paychecks don t. so, people are having to use their credit cards, they home equity loans just to try to make the mortgage or pay tuition or put gas in the car or food on the table. and that debt is why this house of cards collapsed in the great recession. millions of innocent millions losing their jobs and their homes. folks losing their life savings. we are fighting to recover from that. and it s a long, tough journey. but our friends at the republican convention, they ve talked a lot about what they thought was wrong with america. they didn t tell you what was right. they didn t tell you what they d do to make it right. they want your vote but they don t want to show you their plan. and that s because they know t