also peculiar about the budget path to prosperity the republicans budget and the senate came out foundation for growth restoring the promise of american opportunity. what s wrong with just saying the senate budget and the house budget. you guys jazz up these names, sort of like you package the branded and i think the american people, they just want a budget. just give me a budget. well, it s pretty straight forward and most americans deal with that and i think that most americans also realize that they could live on what the house budget has proposed, 3.4% increase in spending over the next ten years, but it s 4 1/2 trillion dollars less in spending than what the senate democrats are putting forward and the senate democrat budget 1.5 trillion dollars tax increase on top of the 1.7 trillion dollar tax increase we ve already seen out of the administration. they re going to through closing loopholes and deductions, right? i mean, that s the way the budget is. it s not like all of a su
the fact that you re both conservatives and you say that romney is a moderate, at some point does it make sense to get out of the race and give rick santorum a one on one shot at mitt romney who, as you point out, is not winning by very impressive margins in a lot of these states? well, that video, though, makes the point of why i haven t gotten out. when i was speaker of the house, we led an effort which led to four consecutive balanced budgets. when rick was in leadership, they ran up a 1.7 trillion dollar deficit. the very big differences, and i think just to put the label conservative and assume that covers everything, is very misleading. i went to work to change washington, and i think it s fair to say in some ways, and we use rick s own language. this is somebody who on a number of occasions had washington change him. he admits it. he says it s a team sport. he had to go along to get along. i don t believe that. i m not running in order to go along to get along, and frankly,
is going to take to boat president obama? four dollar gas prices and 9% unemployment. oh, we have that already. very vulnerable. except for the fact that approval ratings are high. folks recognize that he saved millions of jobs. you look at the reason auto bailout news. republicans opposed, the president saved tens of thousands of jobs. chrysler just repaid their loan. things are going well for the president right now. are you better off than you were four years ago? i think most americans say yes. when the president came into office he inherited four years ago about middle bush, i think yes they would. when the president came in office he inherited a 1.7 trillion dollar debt. 80% of that attribute habit attributable to bush era policies. passed medical reform that enables seniors to get medical
two years we ve had in generations. that doesn t mean that our business is finished. that s not the only political milestone from last year. we re back this morning about doug schoen and nice to have you back. the health care bill, that seemed to be one of the biggest of the year. i was surprised though, it wasn t at the top of your list. senator, what was at the top of your list for biggest political moment of 2010? well, i actually had a quiet moment and that is december 16th, the evenings at thursday night, harry reid polls, 1.7 trillion dollar omnibus spending bill. why is that pontiac? because it had over 6,000 ear marks and every 8,000 in earmark spending and john mccain calls it a seminal moment and will play out in march when they have to deal with the budget and the world has changed. the change in november.
very important. we re going to make our infrastructure modernized and and we re really way behind schedule. we re way behind other countries. we led for many years, then a number of decades ago it slowed down and over the last eight years and and 15 years, to be honest, it is it has come to a halt. this morning i submitted legislative principles to congress that will spur the biggest and boldest inf infrastructure in history. it will have 1.5 to 1.7 trillion dollar investment in infrastructure. we have a lot of public and private. it gets done on time and budget. it ll speed the approval ross from ten years to who years and maybe even to one year. because when we give you as governors and mayors and people representing your great states, we give you money. you can t get your approvals, i guess we re going to have to