him in the domestic policy discussion was the letters to his office. yeah. on the stimulus front. brutal. he blamed it on his staff. that s going it be replayed on a lot of clips tomorrow. that was a tough, clean staff. he blamed it on his staff. tonight he said we did it because constituents made us. they will not the domestic policy and the tax end of it they will not say what loopholes. they won t do it. no. we re going to close these loopholes. martha raddatz pushed hard on that, the mortgage deduction in particular. the recovery act, it s important to remember, paul ryan voted for a stimulus bill that was $700 billion. okay? the republican house caucus voted for their own version of the stimulus bill. he talked about borrowing money from china as a ridiculous thing to do and the $830 billion price tag was through the moon astronom astronomic. they voted for one that was essentially roughly the same size.
because he would not admit that the sanctions are doing what they re doing right now. vice president biden clearly pointed out, this is the biggest not exact words, but the biggest stranglehold that they ve been able to put on the iranians and with all of the country ever. around the world and the effect it s having on their economy. he didn t counter that. i mean, he would not admit that. he was totally in denial, what we re doing as a world community with the iranians as if it s not happening. he looked really bad, i think on the domestic front he looked bad when he started quoting he had done these bipartisan things with democrats that have turned around and disagreed with him at the end of these things. he quoted people who turned around and said, no, i don t agree with this conclusion. i think that s going to come back and haunt him. biden kept interjecting there. i think the toughest shot that the vice president got on him in the domestic policy discussion was the