talking point and he pushed back on it. >> the proposal i make today would extend these tax cuts for 97% of all small business owners in america. >> let's remember here, it's not just republicans who prevented the president from trying to decouple the tax cuts for the wealthy from the cuts for the middle class. it's not clear democrats agree with each other about where the cut-off should be. >> the problem is in my state there are a lot of people who make above 250 who aren't rich. >> well, okay. schumer was arguing for years actually to move the threshold up to a million. yesterday in a statement he said he's in total solidarity with the president. guess what. some senate democrats nervous about losing their seat weren't so e few sieve. senator bill nelson of florida said, quote, nelson's favored position is to permanently extend the bush era tax cuts for those making under $1 million. and for bob kerry running for