democrats who want to make the buffett tax happen this year. but is that just election year rhetoric? i think it is. i think it s going to be hard to find the votes for this in congress. you re not going to see a single republican crossing the line to pass this. i don t think anything will happen until people have to take action and that s not going to happen until after the election happens. again, despite the fact some democrats say this is the right plan, in the past, they haven t passed such tax increases. so, what do you think, if the president gets re-elected, does the environment in which to accomplish things, does it become better even if the house and senate don t change hands? i think analysts would say you might have to have a scenario in which the bush tax cuts e pyre, in which congress doesn t get to together, so they re forced to do something unless they want to let the
i i sure you. i m sure, but that s kind of different. i m just observing. we ll get to the meat of what we re talking about. alex, what is the sense on the ouce or is it hard to tell? i think that romney has really benefitted over the last week from an enormous paid media offensive on the air waves here. you see advertising on all sides of this race, but the romney ads are just overwhelming the gingrich ads at this point. newt needed those two debates as an opportunity to level out the playing field and i think the general consensus among republicans here, he didn t have the kind of electrifying moment he did in south carolina. he s still drawing crowds, putting in strong performances, but there isn t that sense of a run away train as in south carolina. you write that romney s surrogate john mccain says stop the debates because he s tired of the mud wrestling. if romney becomes the nominee,
doing so and were it not for m him, would the gingrich campaign be over? i think without question and this shows the folly of that ruling from a couple of years ago that allows basically one person, one family, to funnel unlimited amounts into this election. now, as alex was just pointing out, florida has a bunch of norm media markets, so the same amount doesn t go as far. one guy or one family putting $10 million into the race had a lot to do with skewing the race in south carolina and i think republicans are now coming to realize this ruling bringing unlimited cash into politics can hurt them as well. i m going to ask this to both of you. are the republicans making it easy for the president s advisers to start plucking talking points for a general election? i think that the obama campaign should be putting newt gingrich and others on its payroll. okay, there s that.
those are the things we want to communicate. unfortunately, the rhetoric surrounding immigration reform had has laid over that dialogue, has made that communication more difficult. in that respect, i agree with the congressman. we have to move forward as a country. we have these big issues we have to tackle together. and it would be nice if danny were setting the policy for the republican party. unfortunately, he s not. well, there you are. i ll let the two of you end on a note of agreement. thank you. be sure to watch tuesday for live coverage of the florida primary. we ll have live reports from the sunshine state day and night. let s go to the three biggest money headlines. half empty, half full for good fli flier practice and restaurant reboyens. good morning. good morning, alex. so, these new economic growth number, they are in and the glass is, is it half full or
country. send me a law that gives them the chance to earn their citizenship. i will sign it right away. danny, doesn t this give president obama a leg up on the gop in the general election? well, president obama did very well with the hispanic vote back in 2008 and the congressman is right. generally, they are more conservative than liberal. unfortunately, my party has not done a great job in communicating with that demographic of the population. i think immigration situation has led to a really rankerous negative party that we need to get bas because from a values perspective, even policy perspective, hispanics have a home with a republican party. the dream act is one of those things we ought to be able to find common ground on. both newt gingrich and mitt romney the military aspect, they would sign into law right away. i think in general, we know the