muammar qaddafi s compound has been hit in the latest missile strikes. but putting that aside for the moment as crazy as that is, in scream of things, i wonder what the fixation on this in general if it is legal or not, or constitutional or not, that this becomes the focus and not cutting spending. guest: well, that is certainly one of my fears. so, it compounds to the overseas military spending but, more importantly, it takes attention away from other things that we need to focus on right now including getting our fiscal house in order and the fact that we have a national debt of $15 trillion and we are adding to that at a rate of $1.65 trillion a year and we need to get that under control. neil: the talk is you are closer to getting at least the budget matter under control to extend the government s funding through the end of the year, and that would call for middle ground between the $10 billion or so the administration is looking at and the $50 billion
sean: greg, thank you. at home the budget battle in washington continues. lawmakers morninged managed to delay a government shutdown. what happens when the clock runs out of time? joining me republican congresswoman bachmann, democratic congressman weiner. here s why we are in this position. this is a fact. you had both houses last year run by the democrats, you had white house. you guys didn t pass a budget. it is your responsible. now we find ourselves at this impasse. all the democrats are offer something 4.5 billion in cuts. we have a 1.65 trillion deficit this year, after nearly three trillion of obama debt in his first two years. we also have 3.7 trillion dollar budget. you can t find more than 4.5 billion to cut? frankly, let s get the history right. the bush administration drove the economy into a cliff and
sean: greg, thank you. at home the budget battle in washington continues. lawmakers morninged managed to delay a government shutdown. what happens when the clock runs out of time? joining me republican congresswoman bachmann, democratic congressman weiner. here s why we are in this position. this is a fact. you had both houses last year run by the democrats, you had white house. you guys didn t pass a budget. it is your responsible. now we find ourselves at this impasse. all the democrats are offer something 4.5 billion in cuts. we have a 1.65 trillion deficit this year, after nearly three trillion of obama debt in his first two years. we also have 3.7 trillion dollar budget. you can t find more than 4.5 billion to cut? frankly, let s get the history right. the bush administration drove the economy into a cliff and
take in but its culture change in wisconsin, isn t it? absolutely. let s face it. i was a business person for 31 years, you not only have to balance the budget. you need a surplus. it s a discipline. there is even a difference between the states and the federal government. the reason the states have to balance this budget, it s coolingly required to do so. if you take a look at what is happening in wisconsin, the anger, that is what we re trying to do is close the $1.8 billion a year deficit. the federal government will be $1.65 trillion, judge, that is almost a thousand times worse. i m going to be devoting my time and energy to see what we can do from bankrupting this nation. do you and your colleagues in the congress, particularly republicans in the senate, recognize that we are facing an abyss, that the $14 trillion cannot be repaid. that the president wants yet
the g.o.p. plan saying it wasn t enough cuts and they will be part of the kevin push to plus up the numbers and try to get much more significant spending reductions in order to deal with the massive record 1.65 trillion-dollar annual deficit and 14 trillion-dollar accumulated debt. jon: carl cameron in washington. carl, thank you. golden globe gonna take you back to wisconsin now for the latest. these are live pictures coming in as the protesters continue to rock the capitol building with their chants and their singing. why? the state legislature dominated by republicans in the senate passed that bill that democrats fled the state nearly three weeks ago just so they wouldn t be able to take a vote on it what republicans did was find a way to take a vote on the bill by making it a nonfinancial bill. they stripped out any financial questions in it. thereby, allowing the legislature the senate, to vote