sync with those in the tea party who have an all or nothing approach. you cannot compromise on earmarks or extenders or spending and you should force, maybe, in january, then, the republicans, the yeah or anyway the yes-or-no vote. governor huckabee: republicans can stand on principle if they look at it as a game of football. if you can move the ball eight yards that is better than set back three or staying at line of scrimmage. know you will not score every time you touch the football. move the ball. that is the key. neil: governor huckabee, thank you. we will get reaction from others including republican congress panel elect joining congressman elects joining. is it your sense this is better than nothing? in the end some conservatives said this was a giveaway on big
extenders. they were very, very stressful to say this was not earmarks, but enough extra in there to tick off tea partiers who in the end said we would be better off junking this and seeing everyone s tax rate go up and with the new republican congress pushing the forward and making them retroactive. this is the reality. were. the bush-era tax cuts are going to be renewed right now. and the president is signing this into law in a moment. what makes this intriguing is not just the folks who are not there, but what this is going to do for the economy in the meantime. we are outside here talking to a lot of folk whose have a lot at stake because this could have a lot to decide as to whether people spend more, don t spend more, are anxious more, that is the thing we are following. the markets have been expecting
omnibus spending big, the nearly 2,000-page bill that details the $1.1 trillion in spending to keep the government going through next year, and that is the same bill that includes $8 billion worth of earmarks, extenders, reshes precious goodies, and part of the special members the tea party express members are calling to read, page by page, a conservative estimate put out by hill.com says it would take about 50 hours. now, we should big out the speed reader and see if he can go through this. i daresay he can do it in less time than that. we told you about that fight for the battle over spending and now the fight against mcdonald s, a group in washington, dc, suing mcdonald s on behalf of a california mom, who claims that the marketing of happy meals
this tax rate compromise the president has put together with republicans, even with some of the onerous spending provisions, the extenders and add-ons, with a lot 6 conservatives and tea partiers upset the governor saying he would be for this compromise and is urging republicans and democrats to vote for it and to move on with it. right now i am talking to a predecessor, who was the state s first women governors and went on to serve a prominent role in the bush administration as e.p.a. director. good to have you. do you shop? like to shop? guest: but i go to the mom and pop type stores. neil: what do you make of this, we discussed it before the store here, a dust up among republicans, super, super conservatives saying no, we
conservative, not liberal, but now the hatfields and mccoys, you are a tea partier and against us and the spending or one of the establishment crowd so by definition does that make you the establishment? guest: probably. in their definition. ronald reagan said if you are with me 80 percent of the time you are my friend not my enemy and the republicans have to be careful that they do not overread the outcome of the last election. neil: how do you read it when they say all or nothing or we got elected against spending, being against earmarks and extenders, and they say that is what we read out of that. guest: but they are reading it wrong. petroleum are fed up with the big spending, and worried about taxes and worried about the deficit and they are saying you have to put limits on this ever expanding federal government but they are not saying walk away and do nothing they are saying what gets them, is they are not seeing the big issues being addressed, and not seeing energy