back in january. a clean bill, with no tax cuts, and no cuts in spending. they want to have talks about spending cuts down the road, it will happen. this cut, cap and balance charade they are putting out there would never get done by august 2. it would take years to amend the constitution. i m really happy we live in a republic where you have extremists that get lechted in one election they can t take the country and drive it off a cliff the way marco rubio and his colleagues in the senate and many colleagues in the house have tried to do. eric: there is a vote in the house that will probably pass since republicans are in control to require balanced budget amendment to constitution. todd, you just heard him call one of your bosses an extremists who wants to drive the country off the cliff. only in washington would the idea of not spending more than you take in but viewed
spending cuts down the road, it will happen. this cut, cap and balance charade they are putting out there would never get done by august 2. it would take years to amend the constitution. i m really happy we live in a republic where you have extremists that get lechted in one election they can t take the country and drive it off a cliff the way marco rubio and his colleagues in the senate and many colleagues in the house have tried to do. eric: there is a vote in the house that will probably pass since republicans are in control to require balanced budget amendment to constitution. todd, you just heard him call one of your bosses an extremists who wants to drive the country off the cliff. only in washington would the idea of not spending more than you take in but viewed as some kind of extreme, radical agenda. this is very simple. washington spends more money than it takes in. we have to stop doing that.
one side is clear. one side is less so. chris: what do you think of the debate for balanced budget amendment to constitution? if republicans make that the thing they want to attack to the debt ceiling, remember this. as doug pointed out in his report it would take years to get that through the congress. and through three-quarter of the state. a lock time before it would have an effect. one would imagine they d choose to attach something with a greater and immediate effect on the spending and debt ceiling. chris: thank you. you bet. new home sales were up 11% in march, the first increase after three months of declines. in what was the worst winter for sales in half century. stocks were mixed. dow dropped 26. s&p 500 dropped 2. nasdaq gained six. the international monetary fund says china s economy will become the big nev the world surpassing the u.s. in 2016.
one side is clear. one side is less so. chris: what do you think of the debate for balanced budget amendment to constitution? if republicans make that the thing they want to attack to the debt ceiling, remember this. as doug pointed out in his report it would take years to get that through the congress. and through three-quarter of the state. a lock time before it would have an effect. one would imagine they d choose to attach something with a greater and immediate effect on the spending and debt ceiling. chris: thank you. you bet. new home sales were up 11% in march, the first increase after three months of declines. in what was the worst winter for sales in half century. stocks were mixed. dow dropped 26. s&p 500 dropped 2. nasdaq gained six. the international monetary fund says china s economy will become the big nev the world