showdown. vegetables, baloney, satan, we ve heard it all. let s take a look back. dealing with the white house is like dealing with a bowl of jell-o. we might as well do it now. pull off the band-aid. eat our peas. several trains have left the station. it s a decision about which train we ll be riding when we get to the next station. you have been quoted as calling this agreement a sugar coated satan sandwich. was that indeed your quote? is that the how you feel about this deal? it s a very accurate quote. what i m saying is if you lift the bun, what you see is antithetical to everything the great religions of the world teach. until we see the details, we re going to be extremely noncommitted, but on the surface it looks like a satan sandwich. our plan b would protect american taxpayers who make $1 million or less. plan b ? i would call it plan befuddled. it s really hard to imagine why they even came up with it. if congress allowed this meat cleaver approach to take
are you up for some balance? some fairness? why is the revenue discussion closed now? well, the president got his tax hikes. obama got his tax hikes? speaker boehner, what about the american people? 76% say they want to replace this cut, cut, cut mess with a mix of tax hikes and spend cuts. speaker boehner, i can t hear you? but can you hear me now? joining me now is joan walsh and ezera cline. thank you both for coming on the show. joan, let me start with you. why not a balanced approach? because they re beholden to the wealthy, reverend al. and that s their line and they re sticking to it. so they re serving us the sugar-coated, satan sandwich. they re expecting it to really damage the president.
this is an unusual interview. all right. let s do it again. live free or die, victory or death, bring it. this year, washington suffered an actual earthquake. feel that? and some political tremors too. there were debt ceilings. pull off the band-aid, eat our peas. super committees. if you spend more than you earn, you lose your butt. and congressional deals from hell. but on the surface, looks like a satan sandwich. a long war brought to its end. the war in iraq will soon be brought to history. and a bright political career brought to its end by a tweet heard around the world. that s not a picture of you? i can t say with certitude. there were profiles and political courage like the montana state representative who fought to protect the right to drive drunk in big sky country. either you hitchhike or you drive. i promise you they re not going to hitchhike. the illinois state senator
spend more than you earn, you lose your butt. and congressional deals from hell. on the surface, it looks like a satan sandwich. a long war was brought to its end. the war in iraq will soon belong to history. and a bright political career brought to an end by a tweet heard around the world. that s not a picture of you. i can t say with certitude. there were profiles in political courage, like the montana state erepresentative wo fought to protect the right to drive drunk in big sky country. you hitchhike or you drive. i promise you that they re not going to hitchhike. the illinois state senator who invoked wu-tang clan during a budget fight. kareem, get the money, dollar, dollar, bill ya. thank you. and the subtle ad warning against the forces of darkness that want to kill our grandmas. oprah and regis were not pushed off the cliff as far as we know. the icons stepped off the stage and the nation was forced for
hoping that that actually plays true. on the other hand, just do know in today s media environment where things happen so quickly in this 24/7 cable culture, it is worth noting if we re still going to be talking about this two or three months from now. if we are, that s a big victory for democrats. if we re talking about something else, republicans would like to pick other fights. well, i have a feeling we ll be talking about this, mark, because it is only a two-month extension and being on capitol hill every day tells me that the same fight will surely boil over again. mark murray, deputy political director nbc news, thank you for joining us. have a very merry christmas. we re lucky here to have maryland congressman chris van hon, thank you for being in the studio. good to be with you, luke. was this the first win for departments in 2011? speaker boehner said during the democrat limit he got 98% of what you wanted. representative cleaver called that deal a satan sandwich. you gu