at this juncture you are probably not going to be sold on him. he is not going to have anything new. there are no new rabbits coming out of that hat. i have got to ask you did you just hear the debate between the two democrats and me. yeah, i did. i think they forgot that when obama took office we were spending $3 trillion now we re spending $3.8 trillion. they didn t forget it but the party has to coalesce around a message that s what you get. that s what we got tonight. the democratic message is that president obama is a responsible cost cutter. and i m just standing here going i know that s what you are going to put out there. that s what you will see in the tv ads. i m responsible i want to get this down. you are looking at the stats. and the reason we use this gsa thing is because there is no more vivid example of government waste than this. you can t get a better one than this. this isn t just one guy. it s a whole agency. the whole agency. it s even worse than what
aren t sold on president obama at this juncture you are probably not going to be sold on him. he is not going to have anything new. there are no new rabbits coming out of that hat. i have got to ask you did you just hear the debate between the two democrats and me. yeah, i did. i think they forgot that when obama took office we were spending $3 trillion now we re spending $3.8 trillion. they didn t forget it but the party has to coalesce around a message that s what you get. that s what we got tonight. the democratic message is that president obama is a responsible cost cutter. and i m just standing here going i know that s what you are going to put out there. that s what you will see in the tv ads. i m responsible i want to get this down. you are looking at the stats. and the reason we use this gsa thing is because there is no more vivid example of government waste than this. you can t get a better one than this. this isn t just one guy. it s a whole agency. the whole agency.
could keep your doctor if you want to, you can t. now the decifit reduction through this class bill would be the biggest cost cutter, and it s not. all lies. martha: andrea, thank you. mary ann you know what, i don t think we ve heard the real heat of this conversation that we re going to hear in the runup to this election. i think it s just getting started, the supreme court decision and the calls for appeals as well. always good to see you both. bill: she had a stroke two months ago and just got to the hospital now. why did it take so long to get the scientist to get this scientist medical treatment? we have an answer in a moment. martha: there s the cain train, rowing full steam ahead. he l. as he has self-admitted, will have a target on his back. let me tell you something else before i go through that, about being in the top tier as candidate. can you all see that big bull s eye on my back?
decision to put a cia director in charge of the pentagon? well, i think mr. panetta s being hired because of his deeper background relating to budget and i have seen a lot of talk about the fact he s been compared to clark clifford coming in gnthe nam vietnam era. cap wineberger had a reputation of being a cost cutter but chartered to win the war. my concern here is the record at cia has not been stellar and in my earlier preinterview with your folks i talked about the fact it s bob nardeli ceo of home depot hired to chrysler. i m not convinced that someone without the best record in one organization with five times the responsibility is a good move. david srks that the right interpretation, though, that this is a set-up for potential budget cutting and a major overhaul at the pentagon or
what do you say to that? guest: i have not forgotten that. in south dakota people tried really hard on a national level to define me and i wanted them to know i was a normal every day person they can relate to with a clear picture of the common person who was dealing with the policies and problems this administration was giving us. neil: they were saying we thought we elected in you aggressive cost cutter, you were going to rip the budget apart and you are looking what you have come back with and they are not happy. guest: they will be, what the house passed last week was a big portion of what we campaigned on, so we followed through on everything we pledged and they will see that. they will get the evidence. each week we will have a cutting bill. we started with and that maybe people would call that chump change but $5 million the very first week? that is a lot of in up to me and to the people at home. neil: but we are piling $4