maybe, the little less extreme than what the president wants or do you want them to dig their heels in the ground and fight it tooth and nail? and the principals, they have to understand they only control one third of the government and they have to work with the president to come to a resolution, and the first thing i d like to see the senate pass a budget. senate hasn t passed a budget in over four years at this point. i think what s going to happen on the debt ceiling they re going to vote to extend the debt ceiling for a couple of months and that s good. we don t want to be in a situation where we re defaulting or the threat of default, but i think they need to tie that back to something and maybe it s not the big and grand bargain with the entitlement plans right now, but i think at a minimum they have to tie it back to getting a budget at the senate, that begins the conversation. greta: it seems to me one of the large problems that small businesses have, correct me if i m wro
adds to paul ryan. he s been focused on trying to deal with entitlement but this credibility issue that he s going to, i think struggle with, is okay, he s focused on this but then the tax question comes in. why don t you want to talk about raising taxes on the wealthiest? i think the challenge is trying to explain what he wants to do. the bigger challenge for romney is trying to explain whether or not he embraces ryan s all of ryan s entitlement plans or whether or not he has a different vision. so i think the country there s an opportunity here, though, for the republican ticket because the country s really looking for big ideas. you know, we ve watched this campaign. it s been all marginal stuff, you know, petty personal attacks and yet you look in the polling and people say, we want solutions to these big problems. right. and so offering those solutions, whether it s politically difficult to get it done or not but the irony is, you cannot
spending, that s the entitlement plans, social security, medicare and medicaid. the president has gotten a lot of criticism over of the course of the last few days for not mentioning those or not putting refors of those out on the table. the president yesterday telling chuck todd and others that that s going to be coming, but everybody has to come together at some point in the future. the question, richard, when. vick, that s 2012. mean highway, there s this year s budget. 2011. the president was warning of using veto power if the changes suggested too disruptive. what does that mean? the government runs out of money on march 4th. congress has to pass another continuing resolution to fund the government up and until the new fiscal 1st. the republicans is keeping a promise to their base to cut $100 billion from the president s budget request of this year. that s what they re debating on the floor now. a lot of painful cuts, even republicans admit that, cutting