have been pretty together on this. nelson is saying you need to pay for the unemployment insurance using unspent stimulus funds, which the analogy i ve used on your show before is bailing water from one part of the boat into another. what nelson would do is take stimulus and turn it into relief. the point that you can t argue is that if you care about the deficit, as nelson says he does and other republicans say they do, that, a, you don t need to pay for tax cuts, or b, they will reduce the deficit once you pass them into law. those things simply aren t true. ezra klein taking time off from his top chef viewing to join us this evening. thank you, ezra. thank you. the condescension and the arrogance of the tea party knows know limit. the naacp condemns racism in the group. yet the tea party express outgoing chairman says the naacp makes more money off of race than any slave trader ever. president benjamin jealous from the naacp joins us.
and it would have passed if not for the vacancy in senator byrd s seat. so generally speaking, democrats have been pretty together on this. nelson is saying you need to pay for the unemployment insurance using unspent stimulus funds, which the analogy i ve used on your show before is sort of bailing water from one part of the boat into another. what nelson would do is take stimulus and make it into relief. there s an argument for doing that if you think the economy doesn t need more stimulus. you can make the point. the point that you can t argue is that if you care about the deficit, as nelson says he does and other republicans say they do, that, a, you don t need to pay for tax cuts, or b, they will reduce the deficit once you pass them into law. those things simply aren t true. ezra klein of the washington post, newsweek, and msnbc taking time out from his to have shep viewing to join us this evening. thank you, ezra. thank you. the condescension and the arrogance of the