with no initiative, and be the ones who would take the blame. instead it looks as if there s every indication now that the house republicans are going to get together on this, they ll squeak by, get the required majority and pass the boehner plan. that will put the spotlight on the democrats in the senate. then they re now on the defensive, if that happens. the republicans will seize the initiative. the blame is now shifting entirely on to the democrats. they are trying to scare the republicans away with a letter saying, dead on arrival. well, it s not going to be dead on arrival. what reid will have to do is to add a curly cue or two, some kind of amendment, something on it so he can at least say it s an amalgam, it s a compromise between the reid plan and the boehner plan, which would allow the democrats you were talking about, the ones who will be up for re-election next year, and the president, who has issued what i think is a phony veto
with no initiative, and be the ones who would take the blame. instead it looks as if there s every indication now that the house republicans are going to get together on this, they ll squeak by, get the required majority and pass the boehner plan. that will put the spotlight on the democrats in the senate. then they re now on the defensive, if that happens. the republicans will seize the initiative. the blame is now shifting entirely on to the democrats. they are trying to scare the republicans away with a letter saying, dead on arrival. well, it s not going to be dead on arrival. what reid will have to do is to add a curly cue or two, some kind of amendment, something on it so he can at least say it s an amalgam, it s a compromise between the reid plan and the boehner plan, which would allow the democrats you were talking about, the ones who will be up for re-election next year, and the president, who has issued what i think is a phony veto
with no initiative, and be the ones who would take the blame. instead it looks as if there s every indication now that the house republicans are going to get together on this, they ll squeak by, get the required majority and pass the boehner plan. that will put the spotlight on the democrats in the senate. then they re now on the defensive, if that happens. the republicans will seize the initiative. the blame is now shifting entirely on to the democrats. they are trying to scare the republicans away with a letter saying, dead on arrival. well, it s not going to be dead on arrival. what reid will have to do is to add a curly cue or two, some kind of amendment, something on it so he can at least say it s an amalgam, it s a compromise between the reid plan and the boehner plan, which would allow the democrats you were talking about, the ones who will be up for re-election next year, and the president, who has issued what i think is a phony veto
balance, balance, balance, he spoke about it many times in terms of getting some revenue increases from the wealthy. leslie, just respond to that first, then we re going to go to lars. well, no question that senator reid and the president disagree on that. i have to say i m with the president on this. i know life isn t fair and the president loves to use that word fair. it isn t fair to ask the middle and lower income to continue to give a temporary tax credit, the authors made this a temporary deal for ten years, it s gone beyond the decade. it did not statement late the economy. they did not hire people with the money and it s time to let that expire as the authors originally desired. oh, my goodness. listen this is what is crazy. the president has never advanced a plan, that is number one. number two, transparent? he s so transparent he s practically opaque. he s done so much behind closed doors. finally, as far as fair if the top 10% pays 65% of the bill that is not fair enough
that s more money for the military than all the rest of the countries put together. so you would think in this debate that we have that the pentagon could chip in a few bucks, cut some spending. reporter: the plan offered by reid includes over $2.5 trillion in cuts over the next decade, raising the debt limit by 2.4 trillion. also no tax hikes. martha: all right. here with me now, republican senator mike lee from utah. good to talk to you again. thank you. good to be with you, martha. martha: the wanier proposal the boehner proposal, can it pass both houses of congress, do you think? in speaking with some of my republican friends from the house of representatives this morning, they were saying as of late last night they did not think there were enough republican votes in the house of representatives to get to 218, the magic number you need to pass something in the house. that could, of course, change,