spending at below 20% of gdp. to get to cuts that dramatic republicans did something as dramatic as killing medicare and a lot more besides. now republicans are saying they won t vote to raise the debt ceiling unless spending is capped at even less than that 20%. they now want to cap spending at 18% of gdp. that s about $300 billion smaller than the paul ryan kill medicare budget. republicans had a chance to vote on a budget back in april. back in april they considered an 18% spending cap, and even republicans considering their own proposal to do that, earlier this year, even republicans thought it was too radical. more republicans voted against that than very it. but now they are insisting they must vote on that thing again. they want to do it now, act out that pageant of symbolic voting before they d agree to raise the debt ceiling. that s where the fight is now on whether or not we re going to
those votes are still going to be driving votes in november of next year. that is how democrats feel about the republicans paul ryan kill medicare budget, but the republican leadership in congress, looking at that same data apparently looks at that kill medicare vote from this spring and thinks we did not go far enough. the budget would have capped spending at below 20% of gdp. to get to cuts that dramatic republicans did something as dramatic as killing medicare and a lot more besides. now republicans are saying they won t vote to raise the debt ceiling unless spending is capped at even less than that 20%. they now want to cap spending at 18% of gdp. that s about $300 billion smaller than the paul ryan kill medicare budget. republicans had a chance to vote on a budget back in april. back in april they considered an 18% spending cap, and even
that is how democrats feel about the republicans paul ryan kill medicare budget, but the republican leadership in congress, looking at that same data apparently looks at that kill medicare vote from this spring and thinks we did not go far enough. the budget would have capped spending at below 20% of gdp. to get to cuts that dramatic republicans did something as dramatic as killing medicare and a lot more besides. now republicans are saying they won t vote to raise the debt ceiling unless spending is capped at even less than that 20%. they now want to cap spending at 18% of gdp. that s about $300 billion smaller than the paul ryan kill medicare budget. republicans had a chance to vote on a budget back in april. back in april they considered an 18% spending cap, and even republicans considering their own proposal to do that, earlier this year, even republicans thought it was too radical. more republicans voted against
budget. you don t need to legislate me, a law telling me to try to balance the bulg budget. great sound byte but it s all talk and no walk. bill: they are going to vote on it next week and republicans would come back and say, why haven t democrats even proposed a budget in 800-plus days? oh, the democrats have, the president proposed a budget back in january and february. we have a budget on the table that the president put there quite some time ago. bill: would you support that budget? i believe it was 97-0 against it in the senate. the president put a budget on the table. we can all discuss what budget ultimately gets signed by the president. but it s unfair to say that democrats haven t put a budget on the table. bill: javier becerra thank you for coming in. it s great to get your
call from all the politicians. thomas in new mexico. the tea party of which i am a proud member may not be the only group to put pressure on these big spending politicians, but it sure doesn t hurt. the more the better. how can democrats push to increase the debt ceiling to keep spending? they didn t even deliver a budget back in october of 2010 when it was due. susan in alabama, no. but it is the long term answer to getting the lunatic fringe out of the gop so they can be a respectable political party again some day. in the short term, it will help democrats in 2012. and in that respect i m all for it. pat in virginia says, yeah, it s about time that someone stood up and said enough is enough. these folks seem to be serious about cutting. now we ll see if the rest of our congress is brave enough to take a position. at least maybe we can force them to take votes on these things and show whether or not they re for more and more spending.