takeover. why do we have to get it done by a date certain? in is suicidal sean, suicidal. sean: frank luntz, appreciate you being with us, love the focus group. when we come back, our great, great, great american panel, next.
interest. the thing that struck me that doctor elmendorf said the head of cbo is that at the end of 10 years, we will be paying 800 billion dollars in interest alone. sean: that s frightening. frightening! it s the most scary kind of thing i ve ever heard of. how big does the economy have to be to support that? sean: let me ask you this, news busters, had a piece out, and said that abc news covered your issue involving your filibuster, if you will, six times more than the coverage they gave to charlie rangel s scandal, which is a real scandal. here s in the context i want to ask you this question, do you think there are enough people in washington with the political courage to say what you re saying and take the
tough political stands to bring america back to balanced budgets? by that, will republicans stand on these conservative principles? do you see enough republicans supporting you? right now, you re asking me at this present time? right now, yeah. no. sean: how many short are we? we re about, if you re talking about if we happen to have a good election in 2010, how many are we short? how many do we have to make up to get a conservative majority in the u.s. senate? sean: majority that will about 30. sean: 30 more. there are 20 republicans that are not onboard with taking a tough stand to balance our budget? that s about right. sean: all right, jim bunning, thanks for being with us, appreciate it. thanks sean for having me. sean: i don t want to get in the batter s becomes against you. he pitched no hitters in the majors.
51% isn t that fair as a majority? mob rule. mob rule is 51%? this is not what the american people have wanted. this is a transformive, transformive change of our economy, of our health care delivery system that we will never be able to change it back. sean: i want to go to this issue. the president himself when he was senator opposed this. he and joe biden and hillary clinton said it was arrogant, unconstitutional. scott brown ran at the 41st vote against health care. they are gonna ram this down america s throat. they did not seem like a happy group. what are the consequences for this? they were not a happy group. you put me in this chair to be a progress nose day prognosticator two things will happen, number one is that everyone who is opposed to this will positively come out and vote because they will feel like it is not only their right but their responsibility
two, you will see democrats defeated in places that haven t elected a republican since 1994. this will have such huge political consequences. that s what i don t understand. i see why barack obama might push it for ideological reasons many why would congress go along when their own jobs are in jeopardy? sean: this has gone on for over a year. we had the november vote in the house. then we had the senate vote on christmas eve. it s been going on for over a year. steny hoyer is suggesting that we may not necessarily meteor they may not meet their timeline of easter. they are gonna take this into the easter recess. probably some have town halls. is this august all over again? what i don t understand, what is so clear from the polling, the american people are saying about this, do not rush. it is too important to get it wrong. we have things that we do need to fix. let s not have a washington