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Poor. he said his faith influences the way he leads. when i talk about shared responsibility, it s because i genuinely believe that in a time when many folks are struggling and in a time when we have enormous deficits, it s hard for me to ask seniors on a fixed income or young people with student loans or middle-class families who can barely pay the bills to shoulder the burden alone. for me as a christian, it also coincides with jesus teaching that from to whom much is given much shall be required. president bush s name popped up in an ad for the senate in hawaii. the trillion-dollar cost of the war in iraq, tax breaks for the wealthiest americans. we can t go back to the bush policies that left america in debt. you have to see this clip in the first lady on a pushup ....
the largest haul yet. the winner takes all of them and seizes momentum as the clear-cut front-runner. so if the polls are right, mitt romney could be coasting to an easy win. cnn s john zarella is at a polling place in tampa. john s, how s the turnout been? reporter: real good. this is actually the largest republican precinct in hillsboro county, the tampa area. about 3800 registered republicans here, and turnout has been very good this morning. a lot of people going before work. a lot of families coming before dropping off their kids at school. so quite a good turnout. there s 232,000 registered republicans in hillsboro county. i talked to the election supervisor a little while ago. he was telling me that they expected a very good turnout counting all of the early voting and the people that are likely to vote today could be 40 to 50%, he said, of that 232,000. so he expects quite a few people to vote today. here, kyra, is an example of the ballot we were talking abou ....
Counteroffer. they want to keep the 2% tax cut for one year, but they want a three year pay freeze on federal workers. they want to cut the federal government workforce by another 10% or by 200,000 employees and they want no tax increases. senator dick durbin of illinois joins us tonight on the ed show. senator, good to have you with us. i appreciate your time on this issue. thanks, ed. you know, the republicans are still holding the line on tax increases. all the way to the point where they are going to protect the .2%. they won t go any revenue component whatsoever. they want to get rid of 200,000 federal workers and they want a pay freeze for another three years for federal workers. what s your reaction to this? how hardline is this, in your opinion? you know, the extent that they ll go to, the extremes they ll go to, to protect the highest income americans, are almost unimaginable. ....
They want to keep the 2% tax cut for one year, but they want a three year pay freeze on federal workers. they want to cut the federal government workforce by another 10% or by 200,000 employees and they want no tax increases. senator dick durbin of illinois joins us tonight on the ed show. senator, good to have you with us. i appreciate your time on this issue. thanks, ed. you know, the republicans are still holding the line on tax increases. all the way to the point where they are going to protect the .2%. they won t go any revenue component whatsoever. they want to get rid of 200,000 federal workers and they want a pay freeze for another three years for federal workers. what s your reaction to this? how hardline is this, in your opinion? you know, the extent that they ll go to, the extremes they ll go to, to protect the highest income americans, are almost unimaginable. i was on a debate on another network with jon kyl, the ....
They ll go to, to protect the highest income americans, are almost unimaginable. i was on a debate on another network with jon kyl, the republican leader last sunday, in which i said clearly the republicans have to agree with us, we don t want the payroll taxes on working families to go up on january 1st. these families are struggling paycheck to paycheck and we ought to pay for it by having the wealthiest of our country pay a little bit more. jon kyl rejected it. he said, no, no way we re going to. they got the message, and noticed being for an increase on the payroll tax for working families is not a good idea. now they came up with this idea where they re going freeze the federal workforce. think about this for a second. if you lose three prosecuting attorneys in the department of justice going after terrorists or those accused of drug crimes, whatever it might be, they say you can replace one of them. what happens when we need people working in the federal government to keep americ ....