the eyes of john boehner and for those outside groups to rip him up after he put forward two budgets that had a lot of controversial things, a lot of democrats could take folly with, attacking the gop. boehner thought was absurd. number three they see from our nbc news, wall street journal polling, health care as a huge liability for democrats still. the public and president obama while the issue is out there. gop, in fighting, three years another thing boehner wanted to move away from. david, it is worth keeping in mind this was as much as it was a, a sort of small ball budget. it was still in some ways a heavy lift for democrats. and extension of unemployment. long term unemployment benefits was not in this. that, that upset a lot of house progressives and house democrats. nancy pelosi once again got democrats to, effectively pass in the house. i was wondering what you think
and work hard on this deal in the eyes of john boehner and for those outside groups to rip him up after he put forward two budgets that had a lot of controversial things, a lot of democrats could take folly with, attacking the gop. boehner thought was absurd. number three they see from our nbc news, wall street journal polling, health care as a huge liability for democrats still. the public and president obama while the issue is out there. gop, in fighting, three years fr another thing boehner wanted to move away from. david, it is worth keeping in mind this was as much as it was a, a sort of small ball budget. it was still in some ways a heavy lift for democrats. and extension of unemployment. long term unemployment benefits was not in this. that, that upset a lot of house progressives and house democrats. nancy pelosi once again got democrats to, effect toively pa
would you expect, to say, okay, this is a move to the middle. you can see how he responds to john boehner, said this week, signaled that he s willing to accept maybe the government will collect some more revenue, but let s not raise tax rate. let s get rid of deduction and benefits of simplicity there and thinking about trying to get economic growth. i think if the president responds by saying let s do a bipartisan reform instead of demanding trillions in new tax revenue, then i think that would be a good thing. paul: one of the thing boehner, my sources are saying, they would like to do is to get the president extend the bush tax rates for another year to avoid an immediate blow to the economy and time to negotiate a larger tax reform and entitlement deal. if the president insists, said, look, i litigated taxes in the election, tax rates are going up right away and automatically are and i m going to insist on that, then do you think we re back to the barricades? that s a sign th
would you expect, to say, okay, this is a move to the middle. you can see how he responds to john boehner, said this week, signaled that he s willing to accept maybe the government will collect some more revenue, but let s not raise tax rate. let s get rid of deduction and benefits of simplicity there and thinking about trying to get economic growth. i think if the president responds by saying let s do a bipartisan reform instead of demanding trillions in new tax revenue, then i think that would be a good thing. paul: one of the thing boehner, my sources are saying, they would like to do is to get the president extend the bush tax rates for another year to avoid an immediate blow to the economy and time to negotiate a larger tax reform and entitlement deal. if the president insists, said, look, i litigated taxes in the election, tax rates are going up right away and automatically are and i m going to insist on that, then do you think we re back to the barricades? that s a sign th
would you expect, to say, okay, this is a move to the middle. you can see how he responds to john boehner, said this week, signaled that he s willing to accept maybe the government will collect some more revenue, but let s not raise tax rate. let s get rid of deduction and benefits of simplicity there and thinking about trying to get economic growth. i think if the president responds by saying let s do a bipartisan reform instead of demanding trillions in new tax revenue, then i think that would be a good thing. paul: one of the thing boehner, my sources are saying, they would like to do is to get the president extend the bush tax rates for another year to avoid an immediate blow to the economy and time to negotiate a larger tax reform and entitlement deal. if the president insists, said, look, i litigated taxes in the election, tax rates are going up right away and automatically are and i m going to insist on that, then do you think we re back to the barricades? that s a sign th