it has that in it. so where are we? well, i ll tell you what, ed. if i was speaker boehner, if i were a republican congressman or senator and my phone lines were bouncing off the hooks, because people were saying stop protecting billionaires, i would get a bit nervous. i am already working with a number of senior groups, veterans groups who are very clear on this issue. there s a petition out there. we have one on my website. there are other petitions. millions of people have got to get involved in this fight. we have the people on our side. they have got to stand up and fight back and take on the big money interests who want to do deficit reduction in an extremely unfair way. would you characterize this period of politics between the end of this election and the first of the year as intense as it s going to get?
well, i ll tell you what, ed. if i was speaker boehner, if i were a republican congressman or senator and my phone lines were bouncing off the hooks, because people were saying stop protecting billionaires, i would get a bit nervous. i am already working with a number of senior groups, veterans groups who are very clear on this issue. there s a petition out there. we have one on my website. there are other petitions. millions of people have got to get involved in this fight. we have the people on our side. they have got to stand up and fight back and take on the big money interests who want to do deficit reduction in an extremely unfairway. would you characterize this period of politics between the end of this election and the first of the year as intense as it s going to get? this is a very, very significant moment not only for millions and millions of people,
corporate america one out of four corporations in this country paying nothing in taxes. we re losing over $100 billion a year because of the tax havens in the cayman islands that corporate and america and the wealthy take advantage of. yes we re going to do deficit reduction, but we will be damned, especially after this election if we balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. i hope very much that the democrats stand tall on this issue. i hope that the president is prepared to go to every state in this country and ask the people, no matter how conservative that state is, do you really believe we should give tax breaks to billionaires and cut social security and medicare. ed, i don t think there s one state in this country where the people will say yes, that makes sense. so, senator, you want president obama to hit the road after the first of the year and go sell the american people, just like bush did in 2005 when he won reelection? what do
buy, you know, you can t overwhelm the congress, you know, with these super pac dollars. i would think there will be reluctance in the future when mr. rove and others come knocking on the door because of what happened on tuesday. let s bring in senator sherrod brown of ohio, victorious on tuesday night. congratulations. good to have you with us. thanks, ed. good to be back. we know they could buy the white house if they re going to lie all the time. they haven t tried the truth yet. i guess we ll have to wait another four years to see how it goes. you were one of karl rove s prime targets. how did you provide survive? they spent $40 million here, $31 or 2 million, and another 7 or 8 on mailings. they ran 50,000 individual ads, the last two weeks there were
year because of the tax havens in the cayman islands that corporate and america and the wealthy take advantage of. yes we re going to do deficit reduction, but we will be damned, especially after this election if we balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. i hope very much that the democrats stand tall on this issue. i hope that the president is prepared to go to every state in this country and ask the people, no matter how conservative that state is, do you really believe we should give tax breaks to billionaires and cut social security and medicare. ed, i don t think there s one state in this country where the people will say yes, that makes sense. so, senator, you want president obama to hit the road after the first of the year and go sell the american people, just like bush did in 2005 when he won reelection? what do you think the president should do with this capital? i think on this issue, ed, on