joining us now is ron meier, spokesperson for american majority action and jared bernstein a senior fellow and an msnbc contributor. welcome to you both. jared, this plan b, it s not only an affront to what the president has been trying to do in terms of a balanced approach. it s also a colossal waste of time, isn t it? absolutely. i mean, i have been writing about this in terms of theatrics at a time when really nobody ought to be going to the theater. the fiscal cliff is way too close for this type of game playing and i just noted today that the gdp report for the third quarter got a little bit of a bump. it was marked up to 3.1%. we re actually making some progress on this economic recovery, but if we go over and stay over the cliff because of all this screwing around, forget about it. you re going to have that recovery go south very quickly. john boehner on monday looked like a guy who is willing to make a balanced compromise or at least consider one in the
0 starting to look likely we go past january 1st on this. happy christmas, mike. thanks so much. now we turn to congressman charles rangel, a democrat of new york. sir, i put to you the question we started with, the clock is ticking to the new year. here comes the fiscal cliff. so what on earth is the speaker, mr. boehner and his boys, what on earth are they doing wasting time on these gyrations as harry reid referred to them? the best i can make out is that he doesn t have the votes to do what he would want to do, and that he s using these legislative procedures in order to test the moderates as opposed to those that prevent him from making any type of decent agreement with the president of the united states, and i d like to add, and the american people. he has, unfortunately, in his party a group that he s dependent on if he wants to remain speaker that refuse, that refuse to the believe that obama has won the election. they hated had i am from the beginning and the election di
our teams have the information you want when you need it. it s another reason more investors are saying. [ all ] i m with scottrade. speaker john boehner is waging a war on of two fronts over the fiscal cliff. on one side it s him versus the president. on the other it s speaker boehner versus his own party. one of the leaders of this fight is american majority action and we re delighted to say that the group alexander spokesman joins us now, ron meier. good afternoon. thanks for having me on. great to have you ron. you ve endorsed three different candidates, i believe, for speaker, jim jordan, jeb hensarling, and tom price. mr. price says in a statement he s not running, but can you tell our audience why are you so sick and tired of speaker boehner? well, there s really two big reasons and they happened in the
we d like to announce we have reached an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff. get in a room and make the changes that are needed. it sounds like the president of the united states and mr. boehner met face-to-face. i m not happy. go ahead and give the president the 2% increase. will i accept a tax increase as a part of a deal to actually solve our problems? yes. you know what the republicans do have is they have debt ceiling coming up. joots a slap in the face of all the young people who are out there thinking about being republicans. no way around. rotten eggs. this is impossible. i think maybe the republicans have an upper hand. if anybody out there who is, quote, rich doesn t think their taxings go up, the drinks are on me. beer, and i hope it tastes as good as you all look. it s a brand new week, and with the fiscal cliff just 22 days away, the president is on the move heading to michigan to rally autoworkers support for higher taxes on the w