the budget is a means to an end. we are not balancing the budget as an accounting exercise. we re not trying to simply make numbers add up. we re trying to improve people s lives. so, andy, if paul ryan connecting a balanced budget to improving people s lives, do you think the gop senses it needs to do a better job of explaining why balancing the budget should matter to people? paul ryan obviously understand that point. he realizes as we just heard that connecting the budget, this is an issue that maybe the republican party can use to reach out to hispanic voters, to reach out to women voters, to reach out to those blocs that the party has had so much trouble with. the problem is the product paul ryan is offering is absolutely no different from the product that has been so unpopular in the past. so maybe they can put new wrapping on the report or a new message behind it. the nuts and bolts of it are really the same old thing. andy and lauren, thank you so much. and to stay up
andy croll. lauren, a very aggressive sarah palin. let s take a listen to this as she went after president obama. refusing to pass a budget is government refusing to declare what it intends to do with the people s money. barack obama promised the most transparent administration ever. barack obama you know, pretty inflammatory rhetoric there. do people there realize that that kind of message doesn t really resonate beyond that room? i don t think so. i have spent the last two days at cpac and people are really excited. they want to get informed about the republican party, and they want it to remain their party, the grand old party it s always been. i don t think they recognize that that rhetoric is a little bit more inflammatory than what you would hear in meetings when republicans are kind of talking about how to win elections and how to reach out to those