during a recession. roll the tape. when it comes to taxes, this issue of revenues, is there any way this deal gets done without the republicans compromising, somewhat, on taxes? i think the republicans look stupid and mean. i m sorry. what mean? this is stupid this is a no-brainer in terms of a deal this is a no-brainer. and they look mean and difficult and they going to lose this. at this point, [ talking over each other ] raising income tax. cut a deal on things that make sense. sean: stupid and mean. nbc news, i m brian williams. she should be careful about using terps like no-brainer and stupid when she is terms like no-brainer and stupid when she is doing this kind of analysis. if he just knew a little bit, she would know every time the democrats make a deal with
sean: one softball after another. it really is. in journalism 101 if you are going to ask a question of someone like the president, you take respectfully, you take the opposition s best argument and play devil s advocate and pose it. that s how it should be done. sam donaldson could do it well with ronald reagan and bill clinton. instead, what you ve got is barack obama choosing these people who he knows are his allies in that room, to do his talking points for him. who does he choose to ask an objective question? the huffington post. he is setting them up for softballs. and they are calling it a press conference. it is making a mockery of this thing called journalism. sean: watch the one coming up tomorrow. the republicans they are stupid and mean for not going along with raising taxes
sean: he compared himself. let s talk about what is going on right now this is serious. and you just heard from karl rove the republicans right now are trying to get on the offense . because that kind of attitude, which is to say, we delight in saying no, no, no. is not working with the voters who say, we got a real problem. time for big boys to come in the room and get this thing straightened out. sean: raising taxes during a recession, another obama quote. raising taxes in a recession is foolish that was president obama. right now the gallup poll comes out today, generic republican beats him by eight points on every metric measure on the economy he is either in the low 30s or high 30s. that s it. you are playing games again. you know that there s not one republican who is running right now, who head-to-head beats president obama. so you are going about some
like a good credit history. former fannie mae chairman called on their friends and congress friends in congress, frank, dodd, waters and meeks served as their champions in congress. when others raised eyebrows they responded forcefully. let me let you in on a surprise, some people don t want new business. they don t like the success that you have accomplished by putting people with decent roofs over their heads. some people don t like that. i don t see anything in your report. mr. chairman, we do not have a crisis at freddie mac in particular at fannie mae under the outstanding leadership of mr. raines. this is about the political lynching of franklin raines. sean: democratic economists serving serving in the clinton and obama administrations did the same.
doing this is what conservatives like myself and others, warn would happen if we followed his economic model. now that it has failed and he spent the money. now we find ourselves in this situation. do you think anybody out there would vote for a politician today, juan, that s gonna spend money like this, raise taxes like this, like this president has? is that what america voted for with hope and change? sean, my hat s off to you. i think off to many of the republicans who right now are intransigent in their point of view. the whole discussion has shifted to shrinking the size of the deficiency. that is on everybody s mind. the president has said, it is time to shrink the deficit. we must do something about it. when you hear from moody s this week they are going to downgrade america s numbers. that s shocking news for the whole country. i don t care if you are a republican, democrat, that s bad news. if you say, what are people