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Impossible to say at this moment. bill: do you think boehner delivered his message effectively in the clip that we showed? boehner, i think boehner could have presented his case better. look at the position where boehner is right now. he will introduce a repeal of obama care on the house floor. that means that a number of democrats who voted for it the first time and now have to deal with defending it as a tax or at least the mandate piece of it as supported by a tax. right. bill: will have to do that again that s. uncomfortable. any repeal like the house voted before will undoubtedly die in the senate. maybe not there are 23 democrat senate seats up this year. something like 16 of them are held by incumbent democrats. obama care is unpopular. now that there is a tax element in it that people didn t realize was in it before perhaps. it s not likely to be less unpopular they will have to vote to sustain it again. bill: i just think that the republic party has got to that ....
Impossible to say at this moment. bill: do you think boehner delivered his message effectively in the clip that we showed? boehner, i think boehner could have presented his case better. look at the position where boehner is right now. he will introduce a repeal of obama care on the house floor. that means that a number of democrats who voted for it the first time and now have to deal with defending it as a tax or at least the mandate piece of it as supported by a tax. right. bill: will have to do that again that s. uncomfortable. any repeal like the house voted before will undoubtedly die in the senate. maybe not there are 23 democrat senate seats up this year. something like 16 of them are held by incumbent democrats. obama care is unpopular. now that there is a tax element in it that people didn t realize was in it before perhaps. it s not likely to be less unpopular they will have to vote to sustain it again. bill: i just think that the republic party has got to that ....
People are saying they do not buy it and they think roberts got too cute and maybe he was out maneuvered by president obama, but, whatever, maybe in november we lock back and say, i don t know, maybe he was right. neil: he wanted to put it back to congress. guest: ultimately to the hands of the membership. neil: but, here is one of the problems with that argument. it would be a herculean of the even with republicans taking over congress, to get up a complete repudiation of a law that will even be further entrenched in our system, right? guest: well, parts of it, and parts kick in year and a lot in 2014. but if this is a tax and you remove the tax element, can you do the rest of this? neil: taxes kick in john 1 of next year like the medicare surtax and the tax when you sell a home for more than $200,000 profit. guest: unearned income. ....
Brackets and a reduction of corporate tax rates, as well. now, you are a conservative. i resume you would go along with that tax element in the gang of six plan. guest: well, that alone sounds good and we have a long and productive relationship with senator coburn and we have a lot of respect and confidence in him so it is comforting to hear him but the devil is in the details. we bring some level of skepticism until we understand the details as senator deminute said, he has never seen a bipartisan bill that russia risks shrinks the size of government department department. size of government afternoon. stuart: any reduction of income tax rates must be a husband and a negative for democrats and the administration? guest: well, lowering the marginal rates and the corporate ....
guest: it is a way that will allow everybody to come together, everybody can say, i got something, and everybody can say i gave something. stuart: can this be legislate and voted on before the august 2nd deadline? guest: that is the difficult question. this is some resistance to that now. my pleasure would be that we work like heck so we get something like this done before the august 2nd deadline. stuart: gang of six or do you make it the gang of seven? guest: the gang of six without me was the gang of five. stuart: we appreciate you being with us, sir, senator coburn. the president likes it but will conservatives go for it or will the tax element in the gang of six plan be an instant dealbreaker? first reaction from the president of the club for growth. chris, i am sure you heard what senator coburn told us, a reduction in income tax rates consolidation interest throw ....