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The president, joe biden, nancy pelosi and harry reid, i think will help to bring a lot of people on board who may be skeptical about this. do you have any sort of a dollar figure about the difference in revenue that they re talking about? if they have been able to hold out and keep the tax hike for people who make 250 or more, instead of 400, 450 or more? i mean, how much money are we talking about? it is not a huge difference, and honestly, even raising taxes on everybody over 250 was i think, $800 billion over ten years. so even that was not a huge amount of new revenue. it was in a lot of ways it is more of the principle of if we re going to be asking people to sacrifice, we can t just be asking the poor and middle class to sacrifice again. and the fact that basically, everyone said the payroll tax cut extension is you know, that is ending.
Heard he called vice president joe biden and said, we need you i guess is what we must have said? mcconnell cut the deal earlier about the payroll tax cut extension. so he has a track record, in spite of his rhetoric and saying that his number one priority was making sure president obama was a one-term president, he has managed to cut deals before and joe biden has cut deals, as well. so it doesn t surprise me that s where it s headed. but maybe his relationship with joe biden is better than it is with harry reid. what happened to john boehner? it was really interesting. i spent a lot of the christmas holidays in ohio. but also since i ve come back, a question i get over and over and over again is, is john boehner a good guy? i think the point of that question is, is he willing to work with the president? is he willing to do what needs to be done to get a deal done? now obviously he s marginalized.
On the table a new plan that would raise the level of those exempted from $250,000 to $400,000. the speaker says that that is not good enough. the president has also put on the table several other items which includes changing the way the cost of living increase is calculated. the so-called chain cpi. already knocked down by a whole number of more progressive or liberal groups sending out emails just in the last couple of hours, so the cost of living adjustment, also the payroll tax cut extension is not in this offer. there will be a two-year debt ceiling increase, an extension to give them a two-year window on that, and the extension of unemployment benefits. what about this latest white house proposal because already we hear from a lot of democrats that it s a nonstarter. do you think you could sell it to your congress? i do. at a caucus meeting today with the white house. the president has demonstrated great leadership in what he put forth. he has responded to the need
Energy plan last week, republican mitt romney charged the president policies are a bigger factor in the high prices. demanded project like keystone pipeline move forward to boost oil production. the regulatory attitude of the administration is trying to stop oil and gas and coal. that they don t want those sources. instead they want to get the things so expensive and rare that wind and solar are highly cost effective and efficient. late they re day, white house spokesman jay carney wondered how he could take an all or nothing energy approach. after rejecting keystone. we haven t rejected anything. process at the state department delayed for two reasons. one concern by the folks in nebraska including the republican governor about the original proposed route. because of congress, house republicans insistence on including it as part of the payroll tax cut extension. after signing the payroll tax cut, the president had 60