pro-abortion democrats. neil: in other words you might bring in bart stupak and the other midwestern largely catholic democratic representatives, but you lose tens of more pro-life. yeah. exactly. she had offered them last night a vote in this deeming rule on con current resolution, which means, resolution that has to be passed by the house and senate. neil: wouldn t the pro-life group hate that? the pro-abortion group would hate that. they would vote against the rule and the rule couldn t pass. neil: in other words, you have to be very careful if you re speaker pelosi the deals you make one with group backfire and have you lose another group. right. neil: does she get through it and find the mechanics or the means to get it through? i just think she does. i don t know. it s really up to the american people. if the american people will support the ten pro-life democrats and show them the support to give them the strength to hold firm, then she will lose. neil: all rig
having some impact, but the guys are all sequestered and they re likely to go native, to go with the leaders and the captors. it s the stockholm syndrome of washington. it happens. it happens in state s capitol and the face s capitol. a little over a week ago i created a website called callcongressnow.com. i was part of a group and i called 60 conservative leader around the country in a conference call and said let s try to talk to the constituents of the movement, if you will, across america, and just at least ask them to make their views known. callcongressnow.com is a listing of every member of house and senate with the telephone in d.c. the district office, and the website. you can call their district, call the washington office. e-mail them by way of their website. obviously, a lot of people have done just that. that is a good thing. it s democracy in action. when people say it won t do any good. yes, it will. when people know their voices are being ignored, i think
you might remember, stupak is the man who was raising serious concerns about the abortion language in this bill. he was saying that it was not strict enough, and, you know, they re trying to make sure that the house leadership at least can get stupak and maybe about six or eight others who are of a similar mind, pro-life mind on this, to get their support. the problem with that is that whatever concessions you make to that group, then you tick off the pro-choice group and back and forth we go. interestingly enough, we re learning right now that stupak s 11:00 a.m. press conference scheduled, like i say, 20, 25 minutes from now, is now off for the time being. our rich edson is following this. rich, what is going on? reporter: we re hearing the latest that the stupak language, that congressman stupak wanted to include in this, he wanted tighter abortion funding restrictions and it appears congress is
if it goes through. neil: the president pointed to the same gust of historical figures looking down that we should be doing the, the country doing big things. what do you say? s look, one thing we see from the last year of the president and administration and leadership in the house and senate is they don t have much concern for the will of the people. they are pushing it past the will of the people and without the will of the people. how they claim it s the legacy of our founders is beyond me. neil: do you get any grief, jon i know i asked you this before. you know something neil: for supporting a group that hollywood doesn t flip over? neil, you know, neil, it s an interesting thing because
a full 1% increase in the so-called medicare payroll tax, that would bring ostensibly for the group the top rate not to 39.6, but more like 44.3%. what they make of this, stuart varney, da dagen mcdowell. startling numbers. startling for a number of reason. one, this tax, they can call it a medicare tax. guess what, it s not going to make medicare solvent. it s going to pay for these new entitlements. number one. but number two, this wasn t even in the original senate bill. not in the original house bill. this is a new add-on from the white house. we have to worry about not just the top income tax rate, but what about capital gains that create money to invest in private businesses in this country. that is going to go up by 60%, the top cap gains tax