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This week. military bases, military agents and the white house talked about that this week and last week. and saying travelers will face longer lines because tsa agents are furloughed. head start programs, lots of teachers, and it s all the way across the board. lots of people feel it. and some people won t feel it. that was part of the problem. the white house was counting on the fact that they could use the same strategy they used on the payroll tax debate and people would rally behind them. that didn t work. some people won t be affected. friends of mine that won t be affected in washington and i don t think could care less, so that was part of the problem. ed, that the only reason the strategy didn t work this time? the other part of the reason is the point that republicans have been making, the president got his tax cuts in january, we want our spending cuts in march and everybody can walk away say we got a little bit of something. ....
Bargain here. and treatment suggested in the new york times column this morning, heard it other place, the president would like to get through the next couple of years, try to get the house to flip again and really try to jam some of these things through, rather than deal with republicans who he doesn t think are on his program. he hasn t had the on tichblt the proof s in the pudding, right? he hasn t been able to work with the congress last year, i don t have any great expectations, particularly 2014 on the horizon, had the agenda hijacked by the reality of 2012 and sharp elbows of the tea party and folks like cruz and others holding the line. talk about this notion of cruise control and republicans completely mesmerized by unability outer incapacity to move his own agenda because of his concern about being primary. the president right to gordon a, sad but true, get it on the payroll tax debate and student loan rates i and certainly did it with the bush tax cuts to the extent he c ....
new york times column this morning, heard it other place, the president would like to get through the next couple of years, try to get the house to flip again and really try to jam some of these things through, rather than deal with republicans who he doesn t think are on his program. he hasn t had the on tichblt the proof s in the pudding, right? he hasn t been able to work with the congress last year, i don t have any great expectations, particularly 2014 on the horizon, had the agenda hijacked by the reality of 2012 and sharp elbows of the tea party and folks like cruz and others holding the line. talk about this notion of cruise control and republicans completely mesmerized by unability outer incapacity to move his own agenda because of his concern about being primary. the president right to gordon a, sad but true, get it on the payroll tax debate and student loan rates i and certainly did it with the bush tax cuts to the extent he can, a populist agenda supported by a vast maj ....
Is overused. the first time he was all about getting the policies done but he didn t seem to like to do the policy. he s got the infrastructure to keep the neighbor to neighbor going in swing states, places like virginia. neera, you re part of that world, the activist world. do you think he will do this or do you think he will sit with boehner and watch in the back room? i expect over the next several weeks, unless we have a deal imminently, which i don t think we have, the president will get out there. i always interrupt. you know what is missing, health care. if he had gotten the people out on the streets, bring the auto workers, get everybody down here and never had a big rally. and i think he learned from that and the payroll tax debate ....
That and the payroll tax debate and they ve learned and we ve all learned that you have to get the american people on your side, that people on this issue agree with him. you know, you have people here speaking about rate tax cuts and the american people agree whole heartedly with the president on this issue and their feeling is it s time for the wealthy to pay their fair share and we can have a deal. this was central to the general election. let s look at the poll screens where we put numbers up. look at what the exit polls show. 47% were clear, they said they wanted to raise the tax rate on the wealthiest americans. it s just about half. another 13% says raise it on everybody. only 35% said they don t want tax at all. your thoughts, joy, it s not a majority but it s there. the fact is, the democrats i think you re dead right. i think if there was this person back in the white house rather than the other person was this issue of tax equity. ....