to be arguing about politics and process. the republicans contention that the two-month compromise somehow unworkable is simply untrue. if it were, we wouldn t see a new and desperate republican proposal today to settle on a three-monex tension. speaker boehner says he and his members want a one-year extension. we want that too. now, he offered a bill he talked about and the house passed a bill. he talks about it had no mark-up in the ways and means committee and passed three days after it was introduced. in the middle of december. just days ago. but he expected, i suppose, the senate to take it whole, they didn t. what did the senate do? they did what americans are asking us to do. they came together, reasoned together, and voted together, 89
you think the white house is getting their point across? that is a countdown clock showing nine days that that is how much time the white house has to extend the payroll tax cut or your taxes are going to go up. americans can go to this site and actually share their stories of what will happen to them if they lose their $40 per paycheck. that s the average an american will lose. let me bring in dan lothian and, dan, this seems like a full-on pr campaign by the white house and they re keeping the pressure up and i don t know if people saw it on the screen. this is what happened if congress doesn t act. it crossed out the word congress and it specifically says, the house doesn t act. they ve been keeping the pressure now on house republicans all week and now it s another effort by this white house to drive that point home today where the president is holding an event here at the white house shortly after noon to show what s at stake. you ve been talking about how the white ho