not what we hear in the screening. it s not what fox or wall street journal tells us the center is. it s not what demint just said the center is. people don t want the showdowns. people want a moderate approach. that s actually a very broad center. the weird thing is, neither the white house nor the opposition is giving us the center. in the months leading um to the tax decision, the country was consistent. i was shocked, actually, to go back and read this. they wanted the taxes for the middle class to be continued as they were, but the tax cuts for the rich to be ended. and there was a large majority for that. in the end, it was both the white house and the republicans that went against the public and said we keep the tax cuts for the rich. this was not because the back was to the wall. this was a game at the top, not the broad center of the country. it s very odd. and back to what jim demint said, joe, in terms of the debt
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tax decision is? come on. they already know what it is. they re not going to reveal that today. that s my point. auto ooun, if you re a g.o.p. leader, what s the incentive in actually doing something during the lame duck session of congress? because when you look at the republicans, their agenda is focusing on government funding the government, reducing the spending and preventing the tax hike and then the president s agenda is the temporary tax cut for the middle class, and the senate ratification of the start treaty. that s probably not going to happen in the very short period of time. the focus on both parties is getting the economy back on its feet for long term growth and maybe setting the fundamentals in a positive direction and one of those things would be paying taxpayers back for the amount of money we laid out for the stimulus package and, of course, the bailout especially when it comes to the car companies. last week, we got some encouraging news as g.m. said, we ll have
nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete i know you can only stay with us for a brief time. so i will start with you. you were literally out of breath this morning as the decision was issued. run down the highlights for us. i want to know which of you thought this would be upheld as a tax decision. this is actually two decisions here, the first one looks at the central claim by opponents of the health care law who said congress can t do this because congress has the power to regulate commerce, but somebody who doesn t have insurance isn t engaged in commerce, and therefore is beyond the reach of this law, the supreme court actually agreeded with that by a vote of 5-4 with chief justice roberts joining the conservatives. but they didn t stop there, they then looked at the fallback argument that the government had, which said the congress can do this under its taxing authority and that s where the supreme court found the majority