but i think the green flag is down and i think that it s about time in this country that we have this debate and let s see who wins because $0.42 on every dollar made in america to run the government is too much money. uh-huh. former speaker of the house and probable presidential candidate newt gingrich on the republican side, he never minces words and he s not doing it this time. listen to this and see if you agree with it. i think citizens of those 14 senate districts ought to start recall petitions to bring back if they don t want to do their job, let s have a new election and hire somebody who wants to do their job but this idea that you can lose an election and turn around and decide to blackmail the whole rest of the state on behalf of your interest groups and we re supposed to think this is reasonable behavior? what do you think about that? well, gretchen, here s the problem. on top of what speaker gingrich said, these are items, these collective bargaining issues and
spending and debt in this country, bewe re going to pass an america that you and i don t want to pass on to our kids and grandkids. think of how far we ve come from the boston tea party, ships that didn t want to port to pay the duty to be on the brink of paying $0.42 on the dollar to run our country, that s an america that is not sustainable and people in this country know it. you might know something about that. you took over this rnc situation and you re badly in debt. so a lot of people are wondering how you plan to fix your own budgetary problems? well, gretchen, i don t think i value anything more than hard work and i am working as hard as i possibly can. bringing in a team around me like former chairman ed gillespie, the rga executive director. we brought in a game by the name of jeff larson to be our chief of staff. within five days of me being chairman, we brought in finance
kaine but he was unavailable. he s deciding whether to run for senate or not. welcome. thank you. and i appreciate it and hey, out of the box, i know it s a tough name but i can tell you, i m about as normal as they come. so a name like reince priebus, you don t hear every day. but certainly i m learning to live with it. put it that way. right. so first off, how big a stand-off is this for the future of your party? because we remember the last time the government shut down, newt gingrich took it on the chin. look, i think we re in a battle for freedom in this country. there s no doubt about it. we re on the brink of spending $0.42 on every dollar made in america to run the federal government. and, you know, if we don t get this train back on the rails, you know, i just fear for the future of our kids and grandkids. so i m grateful for speaker boehner and i m grateful for paul rhine who are taking this issue seriously and i think the american people see what president obama is
so it probably will not be done or settled today. don t look for it to stop the government or to shut down. yesterday, representative norm dix and representative rogers weighed in. we re in two wars and a global war on terrorism. we have kids in the field fighting. we can t stop the government and close down things. now, gates has assured us he won t do that but, you know, within the law, but if you have a governmentwide shutdown, what happens to the military in the field? we re borrowing $0.42 of every dollar that we spend so we have no choice. and the leadership, we ran on a platform, frankly, of cutting $100 billion off the president s requested spending for 2011. that s what we re doing. and we re trying to do it so that the sacrifice is shared across the board.
we re in two wars and global war on terrorism. we have kids in the field fighting. we can t stop the government and close down things. now, gates has assured us he won t do that. but, you know, within the law! but if you have a governmentwide shut down, what happens to the military? in the field? we re borrowing $0.42 of every dollar that we spend. so we have no choice and the leadership accident we r leadership, we ran on a platform of cutting $100 billion of his requested spending for 2007. that s what we re doing and we re trying to do it so the sacrifice is shared across the board. here s the thing. that $100 billion is not going to attack entitlements and i hope you guys ask paul ryan that. if the republicans have a plan for cutting entitlements because that $100 billion is going into