This guy can’t keep his stories straight, just last week he was claiming Reagan would back his proposals.

(CNN) — While the federal income tax deadline looms, President Barack Obama used his weekly address to argue for the so-called Buffett Rule, a provision that millionaires and billionaires should pay a tax rate no less than that paid by middle-income families.

The proposal, named for billionaire Warren Buffett who has urged Congress to ask more of the wealthy, enjoys high support in polls, and the president said, “We just need some Republican politicians to get on board with where the country is.”

“So we’ve tried this trickle-down experiment before,” Obama continued, critical of the Bush-era tax cuts and previous tax policy. “It doesn’t work. And middle class families have seen too much of their security erode over the past few decades for us to tell them they’re going to have to do more because the wealthiest Americans are going to do less.”