the various programs, you know, the key thing here is can you fiscally balance budgets or push towards balancing budgets, eliminate programs, you know, add some revenue without killing each other. it is interesting, it seems so juvenile, basically both sides saying, you started it, no, you started it. oh, absolutely, anderson. the whole thing is just nonsense on both sides. and i don t think either side does itself any favors when it goes either on the blogs or on tv or on websites and tries to accuse the other side without having any facts to back it up. it demeans all of us and it demeans the political discourse, and it doesn t get us to where we need to be, to president obama s point. we have huge problems that we need to try to solve. so i do think it s incumbent upon our leaders to give the example to all of us that we can live up to, but it s also incumbent upon all of us, on you, anderson, on you, ed, on
i m doubtful of that. there s such distance between the various programs, you know, the key thing here is can you fiscally balance budgets or push towards balancing budgets, eliminate programs, you know, add some revenue without killing each other. it is interesting, it seems so juvenile, basically both sides saying, you started it, no, you started it. oh, absolutely, anderson. the whole thing is just nonsense on both sides. and i don t think either side does itself any favors when it goes either on the blogs or on tv or on websites and tries to accuse the other side without having any facts to back it up. it demeans all of us and it demeans the political discourse, and it doesn t get us to where we need to be, to president obama s point. we have huge problems that we need to try to solve. so i do think it s incumbent upon our leaders to give the example to all of us that we can live up to, but it s also incumbent upon all of us, on you, anderson, on you, ed, on
the various programs, you know, the key thing here is can you fiscally balance budgets or push towards balancing budgets, eliminate programs, you know, add some revenue without killing each other. it is interesting, it seems so juvenile, basically both sides saying, you started it, no, you started it. oh, absolutely, anderson. the whole thing is just nonsense on both sides. and i don t think either side does itself any favors when it goes either on the blogs or on tv or on websites and tries to accuse the other side without having any facts to back it up. it demeans all of us and it demeans the political discourse, and it doesn t get us to where we need to be, to president obama s point. we have huge problems that we need to try to solve. so i do think it s incumbent upon our leaders to give the example to all of us that we can live up to, but it s also incumbent upon all of us, on you, anderson, on you, ed, on myself, everybody who is part of this political discourse to try
but that doesn t prevent some democrats in the senate that i talked to, including some of the leadership from being wary of a long debate in the senate about taxes. because the fact is, as a basic principle, most americans love the idea of having their taxes cut. they like that a whole lot more than they like as people to focus on the hard reality of debt and the deficit. that s a plain fact. the democrats have a history on the spending side that rhetorically, at least, they feel they need to defend. so harry reid, the democratic leader, wants to have a short and sharp debate that will stay focused on that issue. but he s afraid of having weeks on end on the senate floor, because it could get out of hand and put the democrats back on the defensive. what was mike pence doing admitting the republicans would have a credibility problem on any issue? has he been thrown out of the party and we didn t get the memo? well, he is from indiana they still believe in the idea of balancing budge
principle, most americans love the idea of having their taxes cut. they like that a whole lot more than they like as people to focus on the hard reality of debt and the deficit. that s a plain fact. the democrats have a history on the spending side that rhetorically, at least, they feel they need to defend. so harry reid, the democratic leader, wants to have a short and sharp debate that will stay focused on that issue. but he s afraid of having weeks on end on the senate floor, because it could get out of hand and put the democrats back on the defensive. what was mike pence doing admitting the republicans would have a credibility problem on any issue? has he been thrown out of the party and we didn t get the memo? well, he is from indiana they still believe in the idea of balancing budgets there to some extent. mitch mcconnell goes way back to the nonsupply side tradition of the republican party which preceded reagan and kemp and