Clearly everyone wants a tax cut but you can't have a tax cut for a surplus that you don't have,

The whole Republican rationale for passing such a big tax cut is that we needed to send the surpluses back to the people. How ironic is it that we are now borrowing from the people in order to pay them their checks?

If the president wants to get serious, he will convene a true summit with leaders from both parties, ... The difficulties that the American people are feeling take more to solve than a half day an hour's drive from the ranch.

The president is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy and reductions in spending for domestic needs,

I think America and the world wants us to show the outrage not by rhetoric, but by taking action,

And yet, Republicans have held hostage every penny of relief until the Senate passes their special interest tax breaks,