paris hilton. that's right. paris hilton. cantor will introduce what he calls a small business tax cut. small business tax cut bill. only one problem. the people who could benefit from it include small business owners like, paris hilton. yeah, small businesses like donald trump's trump towers sales and leasings. small businesses like the los angeles dodgers. the same dodgers that just sold for $2 billion. these are the so-called small business owners the republicans are out to help. no wonder new polls show that 68% of all voters think the tax system favors the rich and is unfair to ordinary workers. no wonder 68% of moderates agree as to 67% of independent. americans want this to change. yet, in an interview to air with cnbc's larry kudlow tonight, willard mitt romney slammed this talk of fairness. >> people recognize that these gimmicks are not going to get america strong again. >> if people in america want a president that will look around for scapegoats to punish, while you've got that president now. but that's not who i

trump sales and leasing, or paris hilton entertainment? what about larry flint publications? not that any of these latter companies have volunteered to show me their tax returns but by all accounts these are the businesses that will devour the lion's share of the tax breaks in this legislation. >> the debate over the small business tax bill and the comments of congressman javierbesheer and eric cantor. welcome to hour two of washington today here on c-span radio. glad you're with us. republicans in the house ignoring a white house veto throat and mostly along party lines although a handful of democrats supported the measure and the house approving a $46 billion tax cut for most employers. the measure is being viewed as something that is dead on arrival in the u.s. senate. republicans say it would give companies more money to hire workers and democrats say there is no money to pay for this and it would only increase the deficit. so now the debate will continue as each chamber, one controlled by the republicans and the other by the democrats putting on the table a number of vot

. >> people like that should pay a higher tax rate than paris hilton than a trust fund baby. the baby rule and it is a rule, is to say that we live in a society where that is absolutely unacceptable. >> laura: that is not. >> it has no chance of passing. >> can i tell you why it has no chance of passing? because republic senators will hold it up that they care more about. >> laura: the grandstanding on this doesn't change the facts. the president. >> passing either, right? so let's not talk about what can pass there is a principle at stake here laura. >> laura: numbers are interesting to examine. hold on. we had two years of a democrat-controlled congress and the white house. two years. you guys pushed through not the buffet rule, not the serious deficit reduction. you pushed through healthcare reform that's about to be overturned by the supreme court. that was the president's decision. >> everyone in america knows that if you were trying to run a small business as i have run a small business, you look at the rising costs of healthcare and that is a noose around the neck of s

or paris hilton entertainment? what about larry flynt publications? not that any of these rather companies have volunteered to show me their tax returns, but by all accounts these are the business that is will devour the lion's share of the tax break in this legislation. mr. speaker, 3% of the businesses in america will get 56% of the tax breaks provided. the rich and famous will get most of the money. 125,000 millionaires in america will get $58,000 in tax breaks this year alone. in their first year of this tax break. that's how targeted this particular bill is. more than that, what we find is that most americans don't believe that our tax system is fair. they believe that it is screwed torts the very wealthy. -- towards the very wealthy. h.r. 9 proves that they are right. 70% of americans believe that the tax system is skewed against them and favors the very wealthy. paris hilton we understand has five employees based in beverly hills can take advantage of this tax cut. or donald trump or larry flynt or kim kardashian or oprah winfrey. all small bus

. >> people like that should pay a higher tax rate than paris hilton than a trust fund baby.ule and it is a rule, is to say that we live in a society where that is absolutely unacceptable. >> laura: that is not. >> it has no chance of passing. >> can i tell you why it has no chance of passing? because republic senators will hold it up that they care more about. >> laura: the grandstanding on this doesn't change the facts. the president. >> passing either, right? so let's not talk about what can pass there is a principle at stake here laura. >> laura: numbers are interesting to examine. hold on. we had two years of a democrat-controlled congress and the white house. two years. you guys pushed through not the buffet rule, not the serious deficit reduction. you pushed through healthcare reform that's about to be overturned by the supreme court. that was the president's decision. >> everyone in america knows that if you were trying to run a small business as i have run a small business, you look at the rising costs of healthcare and that is a noose around the neck of small busine

then candidate obama's celebrity in 2008, peppering this ad with pictures of britney spears and paris hilton. it didn't work then, but with the economy still struggling to recover, could it now? >> now he's the president. we still have high unemployment, so republicans are hoping that very same attack can deliver much better results for themselves. >> candidates looking to connect with voters have tried to lighten it up before. richard nixon on "laugh in" in 1968. >> sock it to me? >> humor is such an effective tool, and just really appealing to the broad masses of people. you can just reach people if you can get them to smile and laugh and like you. that goes a long way towards success. >> perhaps that's why romney, who argues his strength is his resume, has recently taken his own crack at comedy. >> it's a hairpiece. >> there you go. mitt romney, ladies and gentlemen. >> and hoping to get the last laugh in november, he's now considering a cameo on "saturday night live." and president obama will get a chance to make his own jokes at the white house correspondents dinner here in washington t

obama, quote, the biggest celebrity in the world, mixing in shots of obama with britney spears and paris hiltonving to capitol hill, the house is expected to vote today on a one hiv year plan to extend lower rates on federally funded student loans. president obama spent the week touring college campuses, urging congress to act. but house speaker john boehner says the president is simply drumming up controversy for his had own political gain. >> for the president to milwaukeemake a campaign issue out of this and travel to three battleground states and go to three large college campuses on taxpayers' money to try to make this a political issue is pathetic. his campaign ought to be reimbursing the treasury for the cost of this trip. >> the argument from speaker boehner and house republicans is that they support the idea of cheaper student loans. they just want to cut spending from the president's health care law to pay for it. a white house spokesman has said the president's recent travels are partd of his official responsibilities adding, when political events are involved, all financial rules an

there was the ad featuring paris hilton and britney spears. do you think the gop is thinking this is going to work now? >> president obama was a new entity, people wanted to know about him. his campaign introduced him in a way that made him more like a real person. this time, he has a record to run on. i think the gop -- right now, mitt romney is probably trailing obama when it comes to likability. you see in the polls that's one thing, the president's personal approval stands high. i think what the romney campaign and the gop is saying is we'll give you that. you're a likable guy. but that's not enough. people are feeling the pinch. are you better off now than they were before. i think they're going to try to stick the president with that. >> john boehner blasted president obama this week for visiting three swing states and talked about the student loans. yesterday, he took to the floor of the house on that student loan bill and here's what he said. >> people want to politicize this because it's an election year. but do we have to fight about

it turns out that she had a sex tape and at the end of the day she is good friends with paris hilton. she moves up the ladder and she -- everyone out. i think americans like to look at beautiful people. they like to look at luxurious homes and cars and lifestyles. >> bill: there are a lot of beautiful people that don't make it in show business. don't you have to behave in a certain way. >> intelligence, excellence, discipline, proficiency in something doesn't matter anymore. it is the dumbing down of america. and i think we're so stressed with our lives and the economy and gas prices we just want to look at something dumb and pretty. when i tweeted on this i said why do you think people watch this show in the answer was i want to see things that i will never have in my own life. >> maybe. >> or it's a train wreck. >> here's the thing. i do want to give them some credit. i am not going to say that they are dumb because i don't know if they are or not. they are smart business people. >> without a doubt. >> they turned this thing into a fortune. >> bill: what does it say the culture if t

help mom and pop businesses, and paris hilton and her entertainment company that's barely getting by. small businesses like oprah winfrey. you know, she's struggling to make ends meet. that's right, oprah, have no fear, eric canter and friends won't let you down. thank you coming to the rescue, and i'm sure given the fiscal hoax in the gop, this bill is fully paid for. >> the president has had the opportunity to change that path, but he made it worse. he has given us deficit and debt. >> we can't continue to spend money we don't have. >> that's right, we can't spend money we don't have. wait a second, i'm getting late breaking word -- wait a minute, right, the control room is telling me it's not paid for? that's right, this very week, the house gop pushed a plan to cut $33 billion from food stamps in the name of fiscal responsibility. and yet, today, their looking to add $46 billion to the deficit. 46 is still bigger than 33, right? this isn't right, and this is the kind of unfair policy that the republicans and willard romney want the american public to accept. joining me now is eman

unless by small businesses and mom and pop businesses you mean paris hilton and larry president clintonthey are peddling a trojan horse. the way it is defined it allows them to take advantage and not real small businesses. what's your response? >> my response to that is they should look at the small businesses we have in tennessee. we have 96,000 small businesses and another 418,000 individuals that file as sole proprietiors. they would all benefit from having the opportunity to have a lower tax rate. i don't run into people saying i want to be part of the tax me more club. i run into people who say it is regulation, taxation, litigation that is costing us when it comes to creating jobs. what we have to do is lessen that burden and have washington get its out of control spending under control. >> the representatives say they are the party of responsibility. they add $46 billion to the debt. why is that okay? >> they use the method of scoring and don't look at the dynamic method. when you look at history and you go back and look at what has happened over the past several decades when you

but that would include things like paris hilton entertainment or donald trump towers sales and leasingdgers which just sold for $2 billion. there are a lot of companies under 500 employees. >> and i think that this underscores the problem with the definition here. small businesses, and i know in my congressional district and across the country, we really are talking about individuals, entrepreneurs really trying to make a go of it who need some stability and predict ability in the economy, and they're hiring our neighbors. the mom and pop businesses that really are going to be the base of innovation. and so i think when you combine that idea of small business with what's happening with the budget, it's really clear that republicans don't understand that when we're all interested in building ladders of opportunity for success for people to achieve the american dream, the rungs have to be pirm. education with pell grants and student loan, nutrition program, medicare that's sustained and that is targeted toward our elderly and their health care. these are the opportunities that the americ

that is senator john mccain comparing john mccain to paris hilton. do you think they can make that stick now? >> i think the crux of this argument is style versus substance. if the republicans can project president obama as the guy who has all the style, the hip guy, but mitt romney has the ability to be a serious conservative who is able to lead this country, take the very serious challenge of being president, i think that could have legs. if that's the tack they take, i expect them to push the theme, mitt romney is a conservative throw-back, out of step with what's going on today. >> do you agree with that. is a person a politician of conviction as opposed to mitt romney being a flip-flopper. >> here is the difference. and style, substance, reporters and the rest of us will talk about who gives a good speech and who doesn't. but at the end of the day, barack obama can look up and say, you know what, i'm the guy in the face of a lot of criticism said i'm going to stand up for the american automobile industry and the jobs it creates and it did and it

it turns out that she had a sex tape and at the end of the day she is good friends with paris hilton.moves up the ladder and she -- everyone out. i think americans like to look at beautiful people. they like to look at luxurious homes and cars and lifestyles. >> bill: there are a lot of beautiful people that don't make it in show business. don't you have to behave in a certain way. >> intelligence, excellence, discipline, proficiency in something doesn't matter anymore. it is the dumbing down of america. and i think we're so stressed with our lives and the economy and gas prices we just want to look at something dumb and pretty. when i tweeted on this i said why do you think people watch this show in the answer was i want to see things that i will never have in my own life. >> maybe. >> or it's a train wreck. >> here's the thing. i do want to give them some credit. i am not going to say that they are dumb because i don't know if they are or not. they are smart business people. >> without a doubt. >> they turned this thing into a fortune. >> bill: what does it say the culture if they w

now the mccain campaign tried this to some degree putting president obama, britney spears and paris hiltons the biggest slibt in the world. this goes to the question are you better off than you were four years ago. they can pump this message out. >> i didn't get the sense it really worked four years ago. as much as the republicans talk about it, obama was a cool guy, a breath of fresh air and most of the problems were pinned on republicans, george w. bush. three years later and a week economy, it could have more resonance. you see him on there slow jam being the news and having fun with celebrities presumably people are going to be a little less willing to indulge that side of the president than they might have been three years ago when he was a candidate when he wasn't responsible for some of the stuff that's going on. >> it's interesting this recycled -- everything old is new again. >> well, we'll see. a lot of of the presidential debate is going to be about the past, about whether we're going back to the bush era, about what obama has done or hasn't done. >> josh green from bloomberg, t

dana wrote in land of paris hilton, lindsay lohan and snooki, debauchery is an american specialty. i suppose the question is are any of us necessarily surprised that this happened, you know, and i guess getting to the point i was just talking to the congressman about, you wonder if it is a couple of individuals who got out of control or if it was a more systemic problem. >> well, the gsa itself has had problems for quite a while. i mean, dating back to the bush administration, there were charges of politicalization, favoritism, out of control spending. it's clear hi something within that agency that needs to be changed. but david is right. this unfairly demonizes many federal workers who have been working very hard and have been already demonized by republicans saying we need to cut government spend, they are overpaid, lazy bureaucrats. many people are working hard and are seeing this and i think also very upset at what's going on because it's making them look bad. these scandals are certainly going to get a lot of attention in the same way that reality tv does, the videos of the g

people like paris hilton and others, the idle wealthy, if you will.nd they didn't pay for that at all. but the minute we come to student loans that's for middle income and low income families and students, the minute we do that, there must be a pay-for. and we're fine with the pay-for, we'll do that. but it's interesting they never want to pay for any of the benefits that the wealthy get. but as you mentioned, their pay-for tonight we've learned comes out of the preventative fund in the health care bill which screens women for cervical and breast cancer, immunizes children, and screens for birth defects. >> well, boehner calls that a slush fund. >> that's a slush fund, for children with birth defects, for immunizing vulnerable children, that's a slush fund? they thinks money used to screen women for cervical and breast cancer is a slush fund? the speaker's got it really upside down and wrong and rz it's essentially an immoral position that you would deny these individuals access to health care. >> so what do you make of mitt romney, all of a sudden fo

real serious issues instead of paris hilton and whether she is wearing panties or not. i thank you for c-span. had a good day. guest: i respect ron paul because he is, i would say, one of the few politicians who is and consistent. i give him a lot of credit for that. host: let me tell you about michael kinsley's background. he is a harvard graduate and studied law. harford has been batted around in the news recently that -- harvard has been batted around in the news recently. guest: that was ridiculous. this makes you wonder about mitt romney. he has spent more time at harvard. he has two harvard degrees. if you think no one would point that out -- what does that say to say that? i think this is a good example. if he could do it over again, he would not have said that. to pile on him for having said it is unfair. host: michael kinsley spent six years on cnn as a co-host. as well as a moderator of debates on pbs. a new ruling from the ninth circuit court that public television stations can except political advertisement. is that a good thing? guest: they are not supposed

story is really just that i was in hollywood after stanford business school about the time that paris hiltony spears were tabloid fodder. and i couldn't imagine raising a daughter or a child in particular knowing i wanted to have kids, in a climate that is so demoralizes and destroys women in particular. and then i was met my husband and was introduced to the likes of hillary clinton and condi rice and really started to note the sexism that was directed at hillary clinton in particular during the 2008 campaign and started doing some research and looking at the stats. and recognized that the media world wasn't really reflecting all of the richness and complexity and power of real women. and that's when i, you know, started diving into the research and decided i needed to make this documentary. >> betsy, i'm curious, if there's a relationship between these, the way that we have these certain cultural expectations of women and the way that those roles are proscribed by the media and economic effects. what do to the ledger, to the dollars and cents, to the sort of purchasing power and stability

paris hilton. >> why is kim kardashian famous to begin with. >> she's famous for being famous. >> she last week. yep. >> totally spontaneous i'm sure. >> i don't get it either. gnaw sports, march madness comes to a close on the men's side tonight. the ncaa final between kentucky and kansas tips off at 9:00 eastern. the final four match-ups were not without controversy. riots broke out after kentucky beat state rival louisville. and kansas topped ohio state in a nail-biter 64-62. >> bill: i picked kansas to win. if they do, i'll go out and burn a car or two. set it on fire. what idiots the students are down there. >> it is basketball. >> bill: kentucky has won five or seven national titles in basketball. act like you've won it before. don't start burning stuff. >> that's how we roll. >> bill: be proud of your team, burn a car. thank you. so, i wanted to talk -- eric, i wanted to start out talking a little bit about -- it is great that that congress is out of town because we can breathe easier for two weeks but the supreme court is still here. the supreme court is up to -- trying to dea

available to highly paid professionals, long lobby firms, professional sports teams, entertainers, paris hilton, kim kardashian, they all get another tax cut. where is our sense of justice? where is our priorities? where is our common sense? thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? does the gentleman seek unanimous consent? the gentleman is recognized. mr. pallone: mr. speaker, i rise today to address the sportsman heritage act of 2012 and its provision to deem the reconciliation of the republican budget. in fact, it was the republican leadership that stood right here on the house floor and emphatically claimed they were committed to not using deeming resolution when is they were in the majority. here we are today and that's exactly what they are doing. i guess it's not terribly surprising that they would break their commitment, especially when we consider the budget they presented. the g.o.p. budget breaks many of the basic commitments that congress has to all americans. the republic

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resignations, despite these absences of leave now for many of these bureaucrats who were basically the paris hilton is that if you look at the total price tag of some of those junk dts, they pale in comparison to some of the possibly billion dollars handouts that the obama white house is overseeing. because of an executive order passed in the first few weeks of the administration, something called project labor agreements and i talked about them before on your show, it's rather obscure, but it costs taxpayers an insane amount of money to reward big labor bosses. there is $5.5 billion in the stimulus bill, for example, that the gsa oversees with these pla agreements imbedded in them that give unions favoritism over nonunion contractors and that add millions and possibly billions of dollars extra in inflated costs and inflated wages. i think that's the real scandal that really should deserve a top down review from the government and unfortunately, nobody has been held accountable for that. >> brian: let me ask you, what do you think of the significance, now a letter surfaced from 2009 that harry reid

real serious issues instead of paris hilton and whether she is wearing panties or not.of the few politicians who is principled and consistent. i give him a lot of credit for that. host: let me tell you about michael kinsley's background. he is a harvard graduate and studied law. harford has been batted around in the news recently that -- harvard has been batted around in the news recently. guest: that was ridiculous. this makes you wonder about mitt romney. mitt romney made a crack that obama harvard. he has two harvard degrees. if you think no one would point that out -- what does that say to say that? i think this is a good example. if he could do it over again, he would not have said that. to pile on him for having said it is unfair. host: michael kinsley spent six years on cnn as a co-host. as well as a moderator of debates on pbs. a new ruling from the 9th circuit court that public television stations can accept political advertisements. is that a good thing? guest: they are not supposed to have advertising at all i thought. i missed that. what was the argument tha

i think this is the first time hilton and sex scandal have been used in a sentence without the word parisn a really long time. six agents have lost their job. one has been cleared. five are on leave. it all came up when a prostitute argued over how much she should be paid. she said she wanted $800 and the hotel reception called her at 6:30 in the morning to remind hershey needed to leave by seven kalashnikov. that's -- 7:00. you know you're staying at a great hotel when they kick the hookers out. so she refused to leave and the police showed up. that's where she made a mistake. if you have a problem with the secret service, you have to call secret customer service. if you don't get the answer you want, you can take it up to secret santa, if you have to. but america loves hookers and we've been all over this one. this is from cbs this morning where senior white house correspondent bill plant unwittingly provided us with our unintentional joke of the day. >> this morning there's word of another agent who has taken a prostitute to a sensitive location. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: where are they g