they re saying pass the senate bill that extend tax rates for 9% of the americans. let the top two tax pace expire and this will go a long way to for a balanced approach and solve the problem. if you pass the senate bill. $800 billion in revenue. that is $80 billion a year. to put in context the president ran a deficit of $1.1 trillion. $80 billion of tax revenue, reduced that from 1.1 trillion to 1.02 trillion. that is the problem. spending is the issue. there is reticence among democrats to do big, hard reforms that will be necessary to really drop the numbers down by the trillions. that we re not making any progress. jon: seems to me and maybe you disagree with this the president is winning the pr
evidence. why would the republicans allow the entire debate to be over taxes when obama is proposing on raising the rates on the 2% is i triviality it will reduce the deficit from 1.10 trillion to 1.02 trillion. 8 cents on the dollar. it s nothing. it s lunch money. it s a rounding error. yet that all the debate we are hearing. obama understands this. he s not trying to fix our fiscal issues and problems. he s trying to destroy the republicans by insisting that there is a split among the republicans on this issue which has held them together same way it destroyed president bush senior when he went back on the pledge he made. this is a political attack on republicans. there is no evidence that he has any interest in the real fiscal issue because he would have to
why are republicans allowing the entire debate to be about taxes? and about the war among republicans over holding the line on the norquist pledge or not. when what obama is proposing on raising the rates on the 2% is a triviality. it will reduce the deficit from $11.01 trillion to $1. $1.02 trillion. eight cents on the dollar. nothing. lunch money. it s rounding error. yet that is all the debate we are hearing. obama understands this. he is trying to, he is not trying to fix our fiscal issues and problems. he s trying to destroy the republicans. by insisting that there is a split among republicans on this issue, which has held them together. the same way it destroyed president bush senior when he went back on the pledge he made. this is a political attack on republicans. there is no evidence right now that he has any interest from
$1.1 trillion to $1 $1.02 trillion. it s 7 cents on the dollar. for obama it s symbolism, punitive to say we ll stick it to the rich. if you listen to the statement he talked about the revenue and stayed away from rates. bret: said the central question in the election debated over and over again and the white house says he will veto anything that extends the bush era tax cut for top 2% of wage earners. but he also says i m not wedded to every detail. all i want is to raise revenu revenue. they had to cables and one was aggressive and the other was resilltory. they asked what to do and they said ignore the aggressive one. they answered conciliatory one. so i say aggress the conciliatory suggestion