it seems like they re front paging both symbolic issues, the opposite of fiscally responsible action and culture war issues in their agenda in the house. i don t understand the difference between that and how they re being described. well, i think the american people are beginning to have serious buyers remorse. we re seeing that the president s numbers are going are going up and the republicans, i don t think, have really had a good day since the election day, which was a very good day for them. but since then, i think the honeymoon is over. this is a party that has clearly looked now in the rearview mirror, reversing health care. they wanted to reverse the wall street reforms. they want to cut the budget back to for social programs that serve some middle income americans to 2008, some to 2006. it s all about pedaling backwards now. and the american people are ready to move forward to get ourselves out of this economic
beltway line for what mainstream republicans are doing. hr-1, new rules, which dhe vie ate late with hr-12, and hr-3 is abortion. it seems like they re front paging both symbolic issues, the opposite of fiscally responsible action and culture war issues in their agenda in the house. i don t understand the difference between that and how they re being described. well, i think the american people are beginning to have serious buyers remorse. we re seeing that the president s numbers are going are going up and the republicans, i don t think, have really had a good day since the election day, which was a very good day for them. but since then, i think the honeymoon is over. this is a party that has clearly looked now in the rearview mirror, reversing health care. they wanted to reverse the wall street reforms. they want to cut the budget back to for social programs that
over a fast growing economy. 1.3% of economic growth? that s really miserable and at this point what the president has to do is offer a real plan. what we ve seen is two republican plans and we ve talked about cut, cap and balance, jamie, passed the house last week and failed in the senate on a procedural vote and passed the ryan plan. remember the budget back in april that was rather controversial. so, i think the republicans have done their tear share to put forward their ideas and the president has yet to once submit his own plan and frankly rejected one of the better plans from his own debt commission that he appointed which was bipartisan. alexis, i want you to respond to something i heard the president say that struck me and many americans wonder what he meant and maybe each of you can respond. let s listen. the only bottom line i have is that we have to extend this debt ceiling through the next election. into 2013. and the reason for it is we ve
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 indicta, apparently looks at that kill medicare vote from this spring and thinks, we did not go far enough. the paul ryan kill medicare 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. in real dollars, 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
medicare budget. but the republican leadership in congress, looking at that same indicta, apparently looks at that kill medicare vote from this spring and thinks, we did not go far enough. the paul ryan kill medicare 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. in real dollars, 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 voted for it. but now they are insisting they