bill: okay. i don t know why you are so afraid to go to the report. bill: i don t want to try this here. but i think you are diminishing with all due respect. look, we have had a long relationship here. we sure have. bill: i like you. but i think you are diminishing the seriousness of this situation. just my opinion. i could be wrong. violating house rules is a serious violation. bill: okay. and those of us who are senior have a higher obligation to make certain that the younger members realize that those rules there are to protect the members and to protect the house. bill: absolutely. you guys are the leaders of the country. i have got to get one question in on this tax compromise deal. look, congressman, i just don t have the time. we re bumping up against a break. i understand. i welcome the opportunity to come back when do you have time. bill: absolutely. we have you back very, very soon. are you going to vote for this tax compromise? today we sent back t
bill: okay. i don t know why you are so afraid to go to the report. bill: i don t want to try this here. but i think you are diminishing with all due respect. look, we have had a long relationship here. we sure have. bill: i like you. but i think you are diminishing the seriousness of this situation. just my opinion. i could be wrong. violating house rules is a serious violation. bill: okay. and those of us who are senior have a higher obligation to make certain that the younger members realize that those rules there are to protect the members and to protect the house. bill: absolutely. you guys are the leaders of the country. i have got to get one question in on this tax compromise deal. look, congressman, i just don t have the time. we re bumping up against a break. i understand. i welcome the opportunity to come back when do you have time. bill: absolutely. we have you back very, very soon. are you going to vote for this tax compromise? today we sent back t
bill: okay. i don t know why you are so afraid to go to the report. bill: i don t want to try this here. but i think you are diminishing with all due respect. look, we have had a long relationship here. we sure have. bill: i like you. but i think you are diminishing the seriousness of this situation. just my opinion. i could be wrong. violating house rules is a serious violation. bill: okay. and those of us who are senior have a higher obligation to make certain that the younger members realize that those rules there are to protect the members and to protect the house. bill: absolutely. you guys are the leaders of the country. i have got to get one question in on this tax compromise deal. look, congressman, i just don t have the time. we re bumping up against a break. i understand. i welcome the opportunity to come back when do you have time. bill: absolutely. we have you back very, very soon. are you going to vote for this tax compromise? today we sent back t
yes the polls matter, but we re two years from the president needing to worry that intently about the numbers here. but strategically, it puts him in the middle. when you have democrats out there beating him up, the more they beat him up, the better it is, because they re sending a signal, not just the democrats, but the white house that they have, in fact, gone to the central ground where hopefully those independent voters, at least from the white house s view, those independents will come home. support has dropped from 82% last month to 76% now following the tax compromise deal. do you read that as liberal supportle faing off or some possible sectors. yeah, well, gallup looked at this and found obama is below support for liberal democrats for the first time in his presidency, below 80%. and they looked at how support has fallen among democrats more broadly. he s fallen more among liberal democrats than he has among conservative democrats.
learning curve? no, not learning curve but getting used to the fact it s a different world now. that s like saying he doesn t know how to read in the eighth grade but he ll learn it by the ninth. should have done it before the point about this, though, is that i believe that obama is laying the basis for a huge issue against him as well which is that he s just not up to this job. he got reversed in the courts on his health care bill, he lost the election. he s nine million jobs that have vanished since he became president. i think there s a real sense emerging that this guy just isn t up to it. and i think when he caves in on stuff like this, he looks even worse. when you look, though,dick, at the latest pugh research poll, it shows 60% of the country likes the idea of the president obama, g.o.p. tax compromise deal. that s something in his favor. yeah, and the exact same time that you find that, you find