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There s a new percent peck active tonight on the tax compromise we have been debating. today two prominent republican senators panned the proposal. joeng us in the arena, ralph reed. welcome. and steve kornaki, welcome back. ralph, i want to start with you. senator demint, a did he conservative, increasingly powerful voice has come out vehemently against this, saying it is a budget busting tax cut, can t afford it, a cave to special interests. first, where do you stand on the so-called compromise? i don t view it as a compromise. why do you stand on it? do you agree with senator demint? i think like senator demint, ....
Tax cuts being permanent. and i certainly don t think it s a good idea for us to be sitting here basically two or three weeks from the end of a calendar year and 26 million small businessmen and women and job creators and entrepreneurs having no idea what their tax rate is going to be. i mean, we have a very weak economy. we have the longest and deepest recession in the post world war ii period. the real estate market is still flat on its back. this thing is not over yet. we ve got 15 million americans out of work. and what this is, this is showing washington isn t broken and obama can t lead and that s not good for anybody. steve, you say this is actually a stimulus plan for obama, and therefore a good plan. yeah, i mean, i wouldn t say it s just cause for celebration of the i mean, i don t think reasonably good plan. it s the best plan that he could have gotten under the circumstances. if he would have said halfway through this year, right after ....
We have the longest and deepest recession in the post world war ii period. the real estate market is still flat on its back. this thing is not over yet. we ve got 15 million americans out of work. and what this is, this is showing washington isn t broken and obama can t lead and that s not good for anybody. steve, you say this is actually a stimulus plan for obama, and therefore a good plan. yeah, i mean, i wouldn t say it s just cause for celebration of the i mean, i don t think reasonably good plan. it s the best plan that he could have gotten under the circumstances. if he would have said halfway through this year, right after the election when republicans won over 60 streets in the house that barack obama was going to be able to in december extract $300 billion in economic stimulus out of the republicans and get them probably to vote for it and sign that into law, i think a lot of democrats would have been very surprised at that. and if you re looking at what barack obama ....
Senators panned the proposal. joeng us in the arena, ralph reed. welcome. and steve kornaki, welcome back. ralph, i want to start with you. senator demint, a did he conservative, increasingly powerful voice has come out vehemently against this, saying it is a budget busting tax cut, can t afford it, a cave to special interests. first, where do you stand on the so-called compromise? i don t view it as a compromise. why do you stand on it? do you agree with senator demint? i think like senator demint, elliot, i would much prefer just a clean bill where you simply extend the bush tax cuts. and i would prefer that we not extend them for two years. which means so not the unemployment benefits and other not the other stuff they weight it down with. wow, you re hard core. well, thank you very much. i ll take that as could i a compliment. ....
Him. the host of up with steve kornaki is live in front of the stadium. let s get to brady s agent responding to this ted wells report today. quote, the wells report with all do respect is a significant and terrible disappointment. it is a sad day for the league as it as advocated the resolution of football specific issues to all that don t understand the support. that is the brady defense. this is a huge issue. you ve gone through it all. key is the text messages between the locker room attendant and equipment manager. let s talk about that on a larger context. reporter: there s throwing yourself on the mercy of the court and what brady and his agent are doing, basically the ....