the leverage is with president obama. this gets into complicated budget anounts. right now, the deal president obama offered john boehner is a $1.2 trillion tax increase. after january 1st, the deal is approximately a $3.8 trillion tax cut. it is easier to sell the tax cut the deal is the same. but that makes it easier if he chooses to go this route to offer a $3.5 trillion tax cut which would be a larger tax increase. so this does snap into a difficult place for republicans. where it becomes a big, big tax cut. from the start we have been
30, 50, maybe even 60 defectors. boehner pulled the entire thing from the floor, went ahead of the conference, said a prayer about serenity, and pulled the entire thing from the floor and sent everybody home. what was the basic objection. the congressman just said it wasn t a perception they would be participating in a raising of taxes. it really comes down to politics, michael. you have been in politics for decades. you know how it works. a lot of them said i can t go home and sell a tax rate increase, even if it s just a tax rate increase for millionaires. i risk a primary if i sign onto that kind of legislation. that s my confusion. the congressman just said it wasn t a tax increase. david corn, is it really that the speaker loses credibility with his own folks when he negotiates in good faith with this president of the united states? and i continue to say it this way because of the antipathy that so many of them have exhibited toward the president. you know, the clown show
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he has a lot of people he needs to win over. i find it humorous that barack obama is accusing romney of being a bs-er. this is the guy who said that ronnie wanted to bankrupt the industry. this is the guy that said that individual mandate wasn t a tax, but then the supreme court said it was. this is the guy who blamed benghazi on the youtube video when he knew it wasn t, so it s a little bit rich to be using the term bs-er when it comes to mitt romney. but it gets to a deeper problem. in 2008, he said he don t have a record to run on, you paint your opponent is someone to run from. that s basically what he s doing in this campaign. he had a choice going into these debates. if you look at the fox news poll, they recently found about a quarter of the american people who are headed in the wrong direction. many think that policies need to change. many obama supporters don t want another four years like the last four years. he could lay out the agenda and
that whole tax calculator, same sort of deceit we heard with obamacare when we were told it wasn t a tax increase. they argued in front of the supreme court it is. this is pure deceit. it is analysis that was developed by a former clinton administration employee and it sends completely erroneous message. whereas what democrats don t understand, romney has to convey, when you lower taxes revenue actually increases. that is what happened under the last three presidents that significantly decreased taxes particularly reagan. you see a boom in federal revenue because more people are more prosperous and therefore the tax base expands. you ve got to find a clear way to articulate to the, that to the american people and say if you want to continue to record high food stamps, record high unemployment, record high deficits, then let s continue to threaten the income producers in this country with higher taxes. let s continue to stymie businesses and let s rip the american people apart,