keep you in business, as n.p.r. does. the thing about this tape, this guy schiller, he is not small potatoes. he was senior vice president at n.p.r. he s saying, we don t need n.p.r. would be better off it did not accept federal funding. and you have eric cantor coming out saying, right, so let s not appropriate it. there s a huge difference between having a nonprofit and getting government funds in the tens of millions of dollars per year, like n.p.r. does. i will not sit here and say that every 501c3 is getting money from the argument. that s ridiculous, nancy, and you know that. this is an organization that s getting money from taxpayers and trashing anyone with an opposite viewpoint. don t act like it s only the top and disconnected from reality. everybody working at n.p.r. believes the same thing as their leadership, or the mass
from illegal tax breaks from the u.s. government. now back to hardball. i m not going to answer all these hypotheticals. i m going to tell you what i think we ought to be fighting for in the senate. a current extension of current tax rates. that was mitch mcconnell on morning rundown. daily rundown. i love that show. i was on my track, what do you call that thing an ipod? treadmill. which side has more to gain and lose before the midterm. it affects everybody working. your taxes.
the deficit s going to go up anyway. it s going to go up because of unemployment. bring the deficit up positively by calling for a real 2 million persons jobs program. everybody working. make a list of everything that needs to be done. put pick colors on tv of the dangerous bridges, pothole-ridden roads. show what it looks like that isn t getting done and call for tr to get done and call for boehner to sit on his hands and say no. why doesn t he call for something to be done about jobs? because he knows he will fail. because republicans would say no. i understand that. i m trying to explain. i think that president obama, one thing we ve seen over the course of 2.5 years of barack obama s administration. he is averse to hand-to-hand combat. he does not do that. many liberals and progressives who want the president to do various thing. wanted him in a debt ceiling fight to brandish the 14th amendment and push republicans into the corner. we could talk a long time whether that s the