newt gingrich did a lot of firing back and some say may have established himself as a firm front runner. here is a sampling of the attacks on newt last night. when your office is on the rodeo drive of washington d.c., which is k street, and you re taking money to influence the outcome of legislation in washington, that s the epitome of the establishment, the epitome of an insider. he supported the tarp funds and should have annoyed a lot of people he received a lot of money from freddie mac. if you look at newt romney, they were for the illegal immigration program and if you look at newt romney, they were for the 700 billion dollar bailout. i happen to degree with most of what the speak are said except going down and saying the palestinians are an invented people. we can start with the the idea to have a lunar colony to mine minerals from the moon, i m not in favor of spending that kind of money to do thatten he said he would like to eliminate in some cases the
could make or break the debt crisis and i know you re saying i ve heard this before. but here is the deal today. lawmakers are not mincing words. less than five days to raise the debt ceiling or risk defaulting on government bills. today the house is due to vote on speaker john boehner s plan. as his own party holds the majority of votes he is really getting frustrated with the divisions that threaten its passage. in a closed door meeting, boehner actually told the feuding republicans, quote, get your ass in line. then veteran senator john mccain who blasted republicans quoting an article owe tea party hobbits. joe, let s begin with you. boehner not too happy obviously. first you have the president that storms out of a meeting weeks ago. now you got boehner using a harsh word, shall shall we say, to try to get the votes to win the house. reporter: yeah. you know, this is a very high-stakes game. and it s, obviously, the most important point. in speaker boehner s speakershi
in washington d.c., and the time that i ve been in office, speaker pelosi held the gavel in the house of representatives and now the democrats have held for two years, held every level of power. i did everything within my power to fight their agenda. i fought even my own party on the 700 billion dollar bailout. i fought against the trillion dollar stimulus. i fought against the 1.5 trillion dollar deficits. i have been the fighter against obama care. that s what the leadership that i brought to washington and that s what we need in a president. someone who has a titanium spine and that s what i brought to the fight and i ll continue to bring that to the house. mike: a lot of the late polls show that people are a little unhappy with the tea party, even though the tea party was instrumental in the elections, now there s polling information that says that some people say the tea party is just so hard line, it s all or nothing mindset. is that possibly going to hurt you? you ve been so c
something is taken away. the question is, do you want to make those decisions quickly? i know you re going to jump all over me and you re going to say, look, you don t make the decisions quickly you re never going to make it. which has been historically true, we ve never made the tough decisions, period. and you know, adam and adam, with all due respect, i m almost laughing about your comparison, they re going to cut something like 10 billion a year out of a something like 700 billion dollar program. and that s not a very big cut and most of it turns out to be bookkeeping anyway. it s more like 500, but that doesn t mean that it s not a big cut. i mean, that s progress. that s how we have to do it in every as suspect of the and adam, you bought up maturity you know, you talked about time lines. do you guys know the first time america temporarily raised the debt ceiling was in 1957 in the time is right now period. i believe we can get it done. i don t believe the alternati
proposed a rule to stop that. if your intention is to create a new government program, you must also terminate or reduce any existing program, of equal or greater size. reporter: the white house pointed out today, republicans don t want to apply that rule, to the upper level bush administration income tax cuts. shepard: what is the thinking of what will happen to those tax cuts. that will be the main order of business in a lame duck session after the november 2nd elections, but the white house expects a fight, noting republicans pledge commits them to push for those upper income bush administration tax cuts, for extending them. here s a bit of what robert gibbs had to say. which, if you read through the pledge, i think they came up with $16 billion, to pay for a 700 billion dollar program and you don t have to be a math whiz to figure out that is just rhetoric. reporter: even though the middle class tax cuts will add $3 trillion to the deficit,