different. when he says americans didn t vote for dysfunctional government, if so how do you explain the vote for barack obama? he s been about as dysfunctional as they come. he claimed that he could be bi-partisan, he had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this plan. and the fact is is that he hasn t been done anything for jobs in this country. he wasted $830 billion in stimulus money that did not do what he said it was going to do and now he says he will assign the congress to come up with the solutions? mr. president, you re the leader of the united states, at least for now, until january of 2013. you need to come up with some answers, and so far your answers aren t working, and you are campaigning. oh, by the way, happy birthday, mr. mountain, at $38,000 a head so he can spend a billion dollars on his own re-election while americans are unemployed, and talk about a fair share for the rich mr. president donate half of your campaign funds to americans, would you please? shannon:
so if $830 billion, by the way, with our economic numbers looking the way they are, our pinch is going to get tougher, not not easier. so i i think we ought to be just dead honest with the american people saying there s a lot of things that we re not going to be able to do. let s get about solving them. and i don t see us there s not one tax expenditure eliminated in this. the debt deal is not a debt deal. the loopholes that don t help anybody except a select few. this is a debt deal we found to be curious. tom coburn has put out a bill to save $9 trillion. republicans had a chance to get a $4 trillion deal and they balk because they didn t want to tackle tax reform. i wonder if you ve been an advocate of tax reform which has lowering the corporate individual rate. do you think that in this
people. john hoeven a freshman senator from north dakota and a long time governor. thanks for joining us today. thank you, andrea. the congressional black caucus was against the last-minute compromise in theory. but their members divided their votes pennsylvania democratic congressman joins us now. congressman thanks for joining us. you were one who voted for it. 2 the voted against it of the congressional black caucus. democrats in the house 95 voted for it, 95 voted against it. this is an enigma wrapped up in a mystery. on one hand we said $900 billion in cuts. in truth discretion their spending is going to go up $830 billion. it s a reduction in the increases. you look at just the next year alone there s about a dlshs 7 to $20 billion cut depending on how you want to read it. we know something about where we have to go as a country. all this talk about a balanced budget is wonderful. it doesn t really represent our
of the senate. 98% of this whole thing happens in another year and five months. we didn t cut spending in the likelihood that we didn t decrease the debt limit. in the long run, the country lost. i don t understand you. you re saying that we ve been talking about. all of the democrats said that children were going to be starved and schools were going to be torn down. richard cohen suggested that the criminal are going to be running free in the streets because of the cuts. there s no real cuts in this thing. $ 830 billion increase in this. almost $1 trillion more we re going to spend. we re playing the washington game again where we call a cut a slowdown in spending versus what america thinks of a cut is i m going to spend less next year than i did this.
rove s crossroads gps group is using the line in a commercial in some key swing states. obama s $830 billion stimulus failed. shovel-ready was not as shovel ready as we expected. 14 million out of work, america drowning in debt. it s time to take away obama s blank check. crossroads is also targeting democratic senators bill nelson. i might help him with that one. bill nelson from florida. also claire mccaskill, there s another one that s not really a lefty. johnson tester s okay and sherrod brown is great. sorry, senator nelson, no more reckless spending, no new taxes, and no more blank checks. tell senator bill nelson no more blank checks. sorry, senator mccaskill. no more reckless spending, no new taxes, and no more blank checks. tell senator sherrod brown we ve got to take away barack obama s blank checks. sorry, senator tester. no more reckless spending, no new taxes, and no more blank