bush tax cut.or years, we have heard them say tax cuts for the rich. now we find out there were also a tax cut for the middle class and the port. -- and support. -- the poor. people who have never paid into social security or met -- or disability are getting on welfare. 16,000 a month are getting added into social security and medicare who have never paid a dime. host: linda, we are talking about the bush era tax cuts, focusing specifically this morning on the income tax cuts under the bush administration that were extended under the obama administration. that is part of a series that we are doing on the "washington journal" lead starts today that focuses on different aspects of the so-called fiscal cliff tops. and we will go to michael next in fenton, mich.. good morning. are you with us? caller: yes. host: you are on the air, sir. caller: i'm calling to discuss the fact that the disparity in the revenue that is generated in the different tax brackets, it is my understanding that the top 5% roughl

bush and quote. so the supreme court gave the presidency to bush and it wasn't until a year later november of two thousand and one that a group of new newspapers completed their count of the florida balance and when the new york times reported on it they buried in the seventeenth paragraph of the story the bombshell that had the supreme court not intervene and had all the ballots been counted in florida as the florida supreme court had ordered al gore would have won no matter how you count in the balance as the times reports if all the ballots have been reviewed under any of seven single standards and combined with the results of an examination of over votes mr gore would have won by a very narrow margin why was the story buried the times and other news publications did not want to deal legitimize george w. bush just a month after nine eleven the nation was in a crisis but the fact remains he hadn't won the election al gore had al gore still won't talk about this just like john kerry is only spoken t

is jeb bush that guy this time?he the one that if he makes it clear he's running, others will decide not to? >> you know, i still wonder if two words come to mind. too soon. i mean, the george w. bush presidency is still not held in high esteem amongst many voters who still blame bush for the economic downturn at the end of his administration that has carried us to this day. jeb bush has the ability to talk to hispanic, more moderate, but i also wonder if you know, people will be a little tired of the bush dynasty come to 2016. >> well, they're too tired of it now, but 2016 is a few years away. thank you both for joining me tonight. >>> coming up, good news for democrats trying to keep control of the senate in 2014 and one republican whose strategy for dealing with latino voters is to completely give up on them. that's next in the rewrite. want to try to crack it? yeah, that's the way to do it! now we need a little bit more... [ male announcer ] at humana, we understand the value of quality time and personal attenti

bush's homeland security director, george w. bush's budget director., the current republican speaker of the house! mitt romney, change you can believe in, if you really like george w. bush, and if you like the current republican congress. then we're the kind of real change you're looking for. who cast this thing? the democrats? one of the reasons that the message of real change resonated so much back in 2008, one of the reasons that that actually worked for barack obama in that election, is because the country writ large had ceased to be delighted by the george w. bush administration. and it was not just the war in iraq. or the great recession. or warrantless wiretapping. or torture, or, or, or, or, or. it was also stuff like this. this is the u.s. state department's annual report on global terrorism from 2003. every year the state department will put together a report like this detailing incidents of terrorism around the world. and the next report after this one, the one that was slated for 2004, showed that despite the bush administration's claims th

bush. and occasionally he would come back in the press section of the plane and more toward in the last week or so, and he was just heading back into his -- the front of the cabin and i was -- my seat was near the front and everyone else had had their fill of talking baseball with him and i thought, i had had one beer at least. i took my moment to say you know, the campaign is almost over and actually it may have been the flight back to austin on election night. but i said, you know, governor, you know, this may be my last chance to bring this up but you said many times when you come back you just throw in a statement, apropos of almost nothing that history will look kindly on your father. and i said, you know, as a journalist i just keep my mouth shut but i'd like at this moment to tell you i think you're absolutely right but i'm not sure you and i would agree on the reasons. and he said so, what are your reasons? i said, well, i was covering congress full-time at that time he came right i

bush's secretary of state, george w.s labor secretary, the governor and current speaker of the house. mitt romney, change you can believe in if you really liked george w. bush and if you like the current republican congress. then we're the kind of real change we're looking for. who cast this thing, the democrats? one of the reasons that the message of real change resonated back in 2008 because the country at large had ceased to be delighted by the george w. bush administration. and it wasn't just the war in iraq or, or, or, or. it was stuff like this. this is the u.s. state department's annual report on global terrorism in 2003. every year they would put together a report like this detailing accidents of terrorism around the world. and the next report after this one, showed that despite the bush administration's claims that we were winning the war on terror, despite the constant claims, the number of terrorist attacks had gone up to its highest level in the two decades the state department had been publishing this report

bush with this down economy. and, look, i mean, we couldn't even win the argument on foreign policy in part because a lot of people are sick of the two wars that george w. bush got us into. that's just a fact. gorgeous george w. bush's type of republic party mitt romney as todd akin richard mourdock in another. >> very good with latinos, kevin mccarthy. we have some bright new leaders and we need to have more of those. >> george w. bush's policies spending and two wars ended up also delivering barack obama into the white house. but let's start with you, chip. your take where we are. what do you think of my point that romney ran a defensive campaign but he also did have to deal with the bush baggage, credibility on spending, and a foreign policy that was frankly the by product of the hopeful but ultimately rather confused and unsuccessful policy in the middle east? >> yeah. i think you are spot on. first, let me say i aspire to be one of those old white guys. >> laura: and rich. >> definitely be a rich old white g

bush?t really for swing voters, undecided voters you want the image -- >> to remind them of hurricane katrina, bush? >> it's not effective surrogacy, apart -- forget about the harshness. >> romney was nastier to bush in the debate than obama was. >> by the way, jeb bush, the whole uniting at this time? jeb bush, maybe one of his -- >> craig fugate a republican would not work for george w. bush after katrina. but when obama called him he said yes because they were serious about professionalizing -- >> there's the door. >> two guys, governor bush and governor christie, both could run for flpresident in 2016, taking different approaches to the image they're putting forward in the last few days of the campaign. you know they both of them have been not totally sole on the notion that romney was going to win for most of the time. privately both -- >> is that what's happening? >> i think both of them are looking, to some extent, what comes next. i'm not saying they don't want governor romney to wi

bush.fast forward four years later to ohio their republican secretary of state kenneth blackwell a longtime g.o.p. operative who at the time was also an electoral advisor to bush during the two thousand recount purged three hundred thousand voters in his state off the rolls just ahead of the election against john kerry like the purge list in florida four years earlier the ohio list was filled with errors too and as robert f. kennedy jr points out thousands of eligible voters were kicked off the voting rolls simply because they didn't vote in the previous election and most of those disenfranchised voters surprise surprise were democrats in cleveland they had voted five to one for kerry and fort four and one in four voters were purged from voting was alone in one specific precinct in cleveland the turnout was only seven percent the lowest in the state thanks to this voter purge the house judiciary committee report on the two thousand and four ohio election found that the purging quote likely

one name is jeb bush. that's right. the brother of president george w. bush. the bush political dynasty. maria cardona joins us now along with rion salam. is jeb bush really going to run? >> well, it's not clear right now. but i'll say this. jeb bush is widely regarded as a tremendously effective political operator and having been a successful governor of florida. the truth is, that had his name been smith instead of bush, i think a lot of people would have been wondering why he didn't run this time around. i think he's a formidable competitor. >> you bring up a really good point here. if you're a democrat, you're saying sure, give us another bush to run against because we think the bush name is somewhat poison right now, maria, but, but, jeb bush is fluent in spanish. he's married to a woman who grew up in mexico. he has strong ties in a big state with a big latino vote. this is the kind of guy that could put democrats on the des. >> he would give us a whole lot more competition than mitt romney did, but that's not saying much. jeb bush absolutely i think is

good evening john i was wondering if anyone had ever done a study on the bush tax cuts if bush. had never been a nap how much more money would be. against a deficit of uganda state it's got to be billions of dollars that would have been burned by our government and. in that amount of time i was wanting it have you i need more no doubt that the center for american progress has published it on their think progress blog durley i very much appreciate you bringing up this topic because you're absolutely right it's a graphic that we often throw up on the screen that shows that the composition of the deficit right now the republicans are all screaming about the deficit if you look at that deficit what you find is that about half of it a little a little less than half of it is the bush tax cuts another a little less than half of it is is the two wars that there were george bush put on the credit card and medicare part d. word he said that the government can't go she had drug prices so medicare is paying twice as much for drug prices as the military does and then the remainder is the wor

the bush family, george w. bush, j jeb bush and the nextgen rags gn of them, including george p. bush in texas and half-mexican, have to bring the republican party back to their senses on latinos. george w. bush in 2004 got almost 40% of the hispanic vote. i think that mitt romney got 25, 26, 27%. they've got to turn that around at the grassroots and it's gog to work its way from the bottom up. the tea party people won't make it ha happen. >> the gop lost because they failed to recognize and deal with long-term demographics trends. the white part of the electorate has been steadily dropping for decades. the latino and black electorate will continue to rise. they're a mad men party in aa "modern family" world. the president should shove it in their face. put massive immigration reform on the table right away and either get what latinos in america need or force the gop to again rebrand themselves at anti-latino and deal with that in 2014 and 2016. what do you think about that as a strategy? >> i think that's a nice thing to say, and i agree with you you on the sentiment. i think in

bush ran for the reelection against john kerry for the voters by a small margin seemed to believe bush would be the better leader. it cannot be said that the vote reflected the favorable referendum on george of the bush's first term. the importance of the communication skill of the candidate cannot be discounted as a factor, however. but all of this misses a different evaluation that merits being taken into account in the incumbent barack obama and his challenger mitt romney. that is the jinx of the second term on so many presidents. only seven of 19 presidents elected to a second term avoided having a troubled or failed second term. that would give the country's 38% chance of obama and the nation experiencing the economic climate if obama is reelected. do not suggest the gamble shouldn't be taken. rather it is playing with politics might give us cause. what is the history project about a second term for barack obama were he free elective with so few presidents having success in that time in office. one of the challenges that face those that have troubled or failed the second term and

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bush's term. he himself said oh, i had to give up my free market ideals in order to save the economy. what did he save? you guys are probably going to be graduate in a couple of years. what kind of market are you going to be facing. are you optimistic about it? i don't think so. and yet it's considered really strange but it doesn't get brought up in the debate. neither of the major partners really addressed this at all, the absolute manifest failure came with economics. there's this group of lunatics out there who once in a while said hey, you don't need to change the medicine, you don't need to up the dosage. and medicine is what's killing the patient. >> on the inflation question, generally speaking, inflation is generally a check. it's very mild right now, but you d.c. more volatility on things like food and energy. and i can give you perception of prices being out of hand because you go to the supermarket once a week and philip your cart once a week or more. you see that going up. that gets un

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>> so if bush can if the bush tax cuts expire, tax cuts -- taxes go up for everyone.hich he demanded to be dollar for dollar spending cuts? is there a greater good test it comes in? >> the greater good test is how do you move the country to reduce spending over time lex and giving the government more money, like giving someone a drinking, another bottle of scotch it's not part of his reform program. it doesn't help to give the government more money. they spend it. in 1980 give the government more money. they promised to save $3 in spending for every 1 dollar of tax. they cheated reagan. i don't think any of us we were tougher or more determined to reduce the size of government than breaking and he got cheated. bush came by, and he got taken on two to one spin we have a question from the audience. if the answer is growth how do you grow the economy from 2% to 4%? what you don't do, what do you do? >> sure. you actively take all -- what obama has done and this is where i think it's significantly we could anything see us. although the unpleasant bits of obamacare, the ta

bush isn't stumping. the cayman islands, not welcome news if you're mitt romney and have money stashed down there. tonight bush is the keynote speaker at something called the cayman alternative investment summit. according to the summit website, institutional investors, private investors, asset allocators, fund managers, academics will benefit from the discussion on the future of the industry. it costs 4,000 bucks to attend. we wish we had more details to share with you, but organizers have been forbidden to disclose the information. in fact, a spokesman for the summit told "the associated press" organizers are forbidden to be talking about any aspect of the speech, even in general terms. quote, we've got a complete blackout on discussing the bush details. gosh, that sounds familiar, doesn't it? those restrictions were imposed by the former president's staff. well, some things never change. this is an admission that the gop brand is, what? it's severely damaged. the republicans don't even have a former pr

bush. you saw one thing, one dynamic in the entire campaign is mitt romney did not want to be tethered to the economic policies of george w. bush and, of course, president bush did not come to the convention. >> right, you know, he really was an invisible figure and republicans i think made a bet -- certainly in 2010 it worked against barack obama to still be blaming george w. bush who would appear based on the things we're looking at tonight that voters were restricted to that message and still willing to hold president bush responsible and that's surprising. >> we have a pro-jikz in the state in which president obama said this is the state that gave me a chance when no one else, we have a projected winner in iowa and it is president barack obama, george. >> this is a big win. president obama's fire wall in the midwest, iowa, wisconsin and ohio, he has now won two out of three. he's won iowa. he's won wisconsin. he ends the campaign where he began more than four years ago with that stunnin

bush me this that this is the with do they the. human nature has this flaw we become indifferent we get used to things we got used to this war. but. i. don't know we're no longer surprised when the news tells us that two or twenty or one hundred soldiers have died we don't react it becomes a habit. and doesn't seem strange. i . that and you bring me some bandages. on the field and see what happens ten twenty five in the morning december first in iraq. on the road to baghdad we approach a checkpoint going to charge us. if we. get to from the bottom of it if i had the opportunity to go to iraq and i went there be end of november two thousand and three. what is your name is louis louis louis good t.a.'s to me. bob i bring you this message on behalf of all let you know parents we are very proud of you be very careful please. fifth. this was done by cluster bombs just for. a day that why did i go to iraq i was full of hate for you of the out ahead of bush because he stole my dreams are you sick. he took my son and his desk destroyed our

bush's first term. the importance of the communications skill of a candidate to not be discounted as a factor, however. but all of this misses a different valuation that needs to be taken into account in judging between incumbent barack obama and his challenger mitt romney. that is the jinx of the second term on many presidents. only seven of 19 presidents elective to a second term avoided having a troubled or failed second term. that would give the country about a 38% chance of obama and the nation experiencing an improved security and economic climate after four years if obama is reelected. i do not suggest the gamble should not be taken. simply that history interplay in with politics might give us pause. what does history predict about a second term for barack obama? were he reelected with so few presidents having success at that time in office? what are the challenges that face those who had troubled or failed second terms? what allowed others to succeed? can barack obama overcome these challengess

bush, a junior with a crackdown there.of examples where we tell people where brush, same year says, you want to crack down, we will not get involved there. that is a typical way of it going down. 4 blessed is a, you do not get to crackdown and have america stand aside. he will not keep your mind if he did necessarily. that was the key factor that of them crushed out. libya is a different story we have a possibility of a massacre occurring. obama said, i will like to stop that from happening. if i can i get a true blue coalition through the you and i will not do it to it. critics howled about a true blue declaration of war through our own congress. >> if congress wanted to cut to the funding, they could have cut the funding. they chose not to. they knew obama was and the right. >> this is incredible hubris' we're talking about here. if you have not learned that we cannot manage out comes inform top -- in foreign countries, you're sorry very afraid. or that happened at enter the gerbil world is happening with their way like

we worked with the bush administration.ecruited the following companies to move their headquarters to virginia. hilton, rolls royce. we made great strides cutting infant mortality. virginians care about results. in the toughest times since the 1930's, we got results every year i was governor, especially in 2009. >> thank you. the criticism of your campaign has been a lingering question of how will george allen be in a second term and how will that be different? you walked with the republican leadership and the bush agenda. you just heard that from governor kaine. at times, you voted with their party up to 98% of the time. if you are reelected, will you return to that voting pattern or will you espouse a more bipartisan agenda that will actually move forward in virginia and the country? >> i will be a senator for the people of virginia. losing that last election was a humbling experience. you learn from losing and have time to reflect. and see how things are going in washington and how every vote matters and how they seem to

bush pushed himself. he wanted to get the rate of home ownership -- about how many americans owned their homes. he wanted to get that up. he got to about 69%. in my view it is to collapse even further. we have seen an increase in the house prices that has not been wound down and still needs to wind down further. i get ulcers on my ulcers when i see another news story that "the real estate story is turning to hell." the real inflation of the prices is the problem. >> you look at regulations more here than at the federal reserve. there are economic debates were people are more particulate on the subject than i. this happened after the great depression, too. it is hard to pinpoint all the time. -- you point to get thaat have to look at the deregulation. some people might say that clinton repealed and the republican congress repealed glass-steagall. and therefore the crisis happened. it can directly go from point a to point b there. i do think you can say a major shift in financial regulation occurred because

george bush? neither reagan nor bush" -- this must be... >> guest: referring to clinton. c-span: ... bill clinton. did he really mean that? >> guest: i'm not sure he was referring to clinton there. he may have been referring to the bush campaign. i'm not sure. we'll have to clarify that. c-span: but there's a lot of that kind of a quote in the book... >> guest: right. c-span: ... about different politicians and the advice that they would seek from him, but they wouldn't acknowledge it publicly. what was that all about? >> guest: that's right. well, generally that was a problem with the republican presidents, because obviously there was a great political problem for them in dealing with richard nixon. this was a republican president who had been driven from office, and they did not want to publicly acknowledge the association that they had with richard nixon. so even though reagan and bush consulted with nixon on a fairly regular basis, although not as regular as bill clinton, they never did it publicly. they never put a picture out when he visited the white house they use

bush. i think he will go down in history as a significantly underrated president because he did a number of crucial things. first of all, the way he celt with -- dealt with the innovation of kuwait, he involved virtually everybody in reach and it became less contentious. >> if i can interrupt, i can say it's my understanding we made money on the war. [laughter] >> yes, that's supposed to acknowledge that. [laughter] secondly, in the middle east in general, the president showed a good deal of courage to move the peace process forward. and then thirdly, of course, the budget. because that agreement did put us on the road to a reduced deficit and the job was finished in the next clinton administration. i don't think you can understands the deal unless you understand the context in which the deal was made. i think we have to remember that the deal came after we had a lot of experience with the inflated economic assumptions, which had been used to pass the reagan budget in '81 and after three fa

it is a mixed bag of provisions, the bush tax cuts. regarding -- the caller mentioned when the bush tax cuts were passed a few years ago -- we were a much better situation. the dangere're in zone. we're not quite work greece is. -- where greece is. it is getting to the point where economists think it is dangerous. 10 or 12 years ago we were not close to that level. that is what the deficits were not such an issue. host: the payroll tax cut was enacted in 2010. a temporary cut to boost the economy. it reduce the payroll tax to% from 6.2% to 4.2%. increase take-home pay about an average of $1,000 per year. if you make $35,000 a year, you will pay an extra $700 back in the payroll tax. $50,000, about $1,000 more per year. $75,000, about $1,500. $110,000, the cut off, $2,200 more from your check will go back to taxes. it will go back to the social security money, correct? guest: the lost revenue from this temporary payroll tax cut is replaced dollar for dollar into the social security trust fund. there are some critics of the payroll tax h

bush had a bad first debate.amously in 1984 had a bad first debate with walter mondale in their raises the question whether there is something about the bubble of the presidency that lets the president get rusty. people do not ask them tough questions. it is almost as if the first debate is shock therapy that is administered to them. host: because they live inflated lives. guest: of course. host: tennessee and the independent line. caller: pedro, you're one of my favorites. you get more questions in than any of the other hosts. for mr. smith, can you talk about the accuracy of the exit polling. it seems they were pretty accurate up until 2004, kerry- bush. thank you. i will take my question offline. guest: i'm afraid i did not hear that. host: the history of exit polling. guest: great question. it's relatively recent. i don't know about you, but it would seem to be absolutely infallible. then we had elections where it was decidedly fallible. the most obvious example was in 2004. it during the day, the numbers are

obama president campaign not been trying to say this is bush's fault. but a lot of people recognize that there was clearly republican involvement there. i'm just wondering if women voters are more likely to say to themselves, i'm for the economy but i don't trust the republican guy because the economy tanked when a republican was in office. >> for one thing, look, i think republicans and democrats are both to blame for where our country is today. it wasn't one party that set up the $16 trillion debt. i think president obama put the pedal to the metal but both parties for blame. i think that's where we are as a country, we have two different choices. what mitt romney is talking about is economic plan is very different than what george bush ran on, george w. bush in 2000 and 2004 and i don't know that voter are saying that is the same old plan. i know president had suggested that, but i think what he's talking about is far different in terms of turning the economy around. i don't think voters are necessarily making -- >> the polls don't show. that polls s