pryor is really hitting cotton on his record. as you mentioned particularly 5 out of the 9 ads pryor has run have hit cotton on medicare. cotton voted for the ryan budget. and basically what the pryor campaign is saying is cotton wants to voucher rise medicare and will have cuts for seniors, cuts to preventive care and there s other issues where cotton has taken some votes that pryor is going to hit him on. voting against the farm bill, against the violence against women act, voting against disaster relief aid. so a generic republican has a lot of advantages, but i think part of what we re seeing is pryor has a strategy to paint cotton as extreme and that may be starting to work. seems to be gaining traction. if you drill down to some of those polls, the partisan one and the other one, it seems
during holy week? well, look, they have voted on the ryan budget. the ryan budget is nothing but an attack on the poor. and it is ruthless as it gets. they don t care what week it is. they don t care how holy things are. that s who they are. stick around. i m josh lipton with your cnbc market wrap. the dow dropped 16, the s&p up 2, the nasdaq added noon. a sign the labor market may be recovering, the number of americans filing claims for unemployment benefits rose less than expected, remaining near a seven-year low. congressional budget office says president obama s 2015 budget plan would increase tax revenue by nearly $1.4 trillion over 10 years and average rate for a 30-year mortgage fell to 4.27%
you talk about minimum wage, you have most republicans now in congress, not only oppose to raising it, they believe we should abolish the concept of the minimum wage. that s what the koch brothers talked about 34 years ago. social security, medicare. look at the ryan budget. what you are seeing is, as a result of the koch brothers, and others, a republican party moving from what used to be a right center party, a moderate conservative party, to a right wing extremist party. that is probably the most important development in recent politics. the degree to what the republican party has moved to the right, and has no stomach for moderates in their party anymore. yet there is some irony that the one area there seems to be converted between left and liberal right. bernie sanders, thank you for being here. thank you. next, cebull usebelius for ? all stations come over to mission a for a final go.
state. in new hampshire it may go over a little better more democratic audience, more independent audience. louisiana and arkansas has more republicans, they will not buy it. one of the things to the democrats pushing back on his they will attack republicans on medicare. they are saying supporting cutting medicaid. supported the ryan budget which went to cut medicare benefits to seniors, with that threaten their retirement? we will not hear democrats saying obamacare. you will hear them talk about medicare and what republicans have tried to do in the past on that. jon: the 7 million number the president said was essential where that was the baseline number he wanted to get to by the end of march, he got to that number, and kathleen sebelius
meaning it s a constituent. one of the people maybe that didn t vote for him, but he s now elected to serve. the bigger problem here is the fact that this individual says take a walk in my shoes, come work with me for 24 hours and his response is he mowed lawns when he was 12 and has been working all of his life so he can enjoy the fruits of his labor. the fact of the matter is, rev, this minimum wage now has not been on par with inflation, has never been ingested, and if it was, it would be $10.76 and not this $10.10 increase folks are seeking. maybe people would be able to enjoy parts of the fruit of their labor. he s so out of touch and so desiring to support his tea party friends and the people that would benefit from these billions in tax cuts that he just voted for with the ryan budget that he doesn t know what he s talking about. you know, patricia, oklahoma republican governor, the oklahoma republican governor, actually signed a bill this week