going to have tax reform? are we going to get to the budget reform we need? i don t hear a lot of reassurances but the sad truth about the defeat of senator lugar and his primary is that it really doesn t have so much to do with the move to the right within the republican party happening for a long time and there are dozens of cases to prove it and that is definitely true, but we re also talking about the fact that americans have lost faith in all of their institutions, government the most and can the banks, church, public schools, and professional sports coaches, you name it. in government you have to listen to your you have to listen to the followers and listen to your voters and stay connected with them and you can t live outside the state in this time of anger and anxiety and you cannot just run on the fact that you have been a statesmen and you have had an incredible record in the united states senate and that the senate still needs someone like you. you have to one on what your
from taxes and, by the way, armageddon the unions talked about in terms of lost teachers jobs and lost police jobs never happened and in fact he saved a lot of jobs and democrats should shift the focus of the debate. david: victoria to e-mac s point, look at indiana, for example, they put restrictions on public sector unions that some people say are more onerous than what was oh, yeah. david: and they are doing well, indiana took a lot of jobs away from illinois. oh, yeah. i agree with that entirely. what was hillary clinton s line about, you know, cease the opportunity of crisis? that has happened here, in states, and my concern is that its will be rolled back, when we are just in the middle of tackling, a lot of states like california, real reform. not just year-to-year budget reform but long-term reform issues, that is my e-mac. i agree with victoria and illinois. you don t want the bond market doing your fiscal reform for you.
but i am looking at this as a prospective president and he would be a great partner to me in the oval office and if something happened to me, the country would have confidence in him as the leader of the free world. greta: let s play the parlor game since it is april. what do you think governor jeb bush would be what would be his greatest contribution? he s an articulate proponent of conserveatism n. november, mitt romney indicated that would be the coir of his campaign. entitlement reform, budget reform, pro-growth policies, reformingly the tax code. jeb would be an articulate advocate and he would be enormously effective in the hispanic community. he speaks fluent spanish, catholic and understands the community and comfortable campaigning in it and that would be helpful. greta: and florida. and florida. there is a debate in political science over this. i brought you a little reading material here.
but i am looking at this as a prospective president and he would be a great partner to me in the oval office and if something happened to me, the country would have confidence in him as the leader of the free world. greta: let s play the parlor game since it is april. what do you think governor jeb bush would be what would be his greatest contribution? he s an articulate proponent of conserveatism n. november, mitt romney indicated that would be the coir of his campaign. entitlement reform, budget reform, pro-growth policies, reformingly the tax code. jeb would be an articulate advocate and he would be enormously effective in the hispanic community. he speaks fluent spanish, catholic and understands the community and comfortable campaigning in it and that would be helpful. greta: and florida. and florida. there is a debate in political science over this. i brought you a little reading material here.
fighting and this fiscal problem is going to mount and potentially cause a crisis. i think real leadership now is about putting out plans that are possible and that look at both what republicans and democrats want to see in a budget reform. with regard to specifics, his budget plan looks at about a $19 billion level below what the president and speaker boehner had agreed on during the debt limit talks. do you think we re looking at a repeat of last year and the possible government shutdown just before the election? there s a big question of what s going to happen and how we re going to fund the discretionary parts of the budget. where we re going to turn to fund those as we go forward. whether the budget will be passed this year. it s not likely that it will and we have a lot of things that are about to actually come to an end. both before the election and certainly at the end of the calendar year. where we face what ben bernanke has called the fiscal cliff. so i think there is goi