flexibility for the president and the administration to move money around between accounts to accounts. you have a ship building account at dod that is says spend out for the next five years. allow them to take the money and put it into maintenance and operation to keep the fitness of current services. let s be honest about this. a bad idea fifthed upon us by the president of the united states who has had 18 months to lead the country in a way that we could make smart cuts and not stupid cuts. we added $600 billion in tax refs in january. the president lan last year television ads saying for every dollar in new revenues we out to have $2.50 in spenting cuts and now where are we the president s sequester [ overlapping speakers ] no, no, no. in the white house let s be clear. in and they really don t want to talk about the origins this of sequester now. but the republicans definitely
as queen for a day. i m not certain what he was talking about there. chris: i don t think it was a compliment. i don t think so either. let s be clear. we did spend $30 million on behalf of tea party candidates. we are the largest outside group supporting rand paul, $2.9 million. marco rubio rubes. i gave money very early. chris: the tea party candidates are saying you are trying to beat them. some people associated with the tea party almost. todd akin was not a tea party candidate. chris: the guy who said legitimate rape and the missouri right. our object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can t win general elections who are undisciplined, can t raise money and aren t putting together the support necessary to win a general election campaign because this money is too difficult to be raise to be spending it on behalf of candidates who have little
$85 billion that are split evenly between the domestic side and military pentagon spending or the president s demand for an increase in taxes then let the sequester happen. are they wrong about that? i think so. i think we should in a bipartisan fashion stop see questions traiks before in the words of the dvd of defens secf defense detroys the pentagon. we can cut spending in the next decade without detroying the defense department if we choose. the president promised in the campaign sequestration would not happen. now, he is allowing it to happen and raising taxes to pay for half of it and the other half comes from further defense cuts. we already cut $489 billion and taking money out of the farm bill. when the president says we cut spending by $2.5 trillion. that is absolutely a misleading statement. chris: why? well, because we haven t. we haven t done anything with
we have so have the main focus on the spending problem. the question is how the white house decides to implement this and whether or not they will play really big games jess the temptation for the white house is going to be there is some latitude in how to put the cuts into effect and do them in a way that doesn t hurt as much. their temptation is to make it as painful as possible. school districts do that always cut the fine arts programs or the school busing to make the parents want to cough up the money. chris: the white house put out thousands of kids thrown out of head start. we won t have food safety inspectors. all kinds of dire things. small business won t get any kind of loan guarantees. they are saying we will make it hurt. oh, yeah, and i think the news media will play into that at everly level. the big ticket here is you are cutting jobs and millions of jobs around the country and you are damaging the economy. so stupid as bob said is a good word for it. it is taking a
spending in recent history. i will think he is flat out wrong. chris: but does it matter whether it is right or wrong and you know this doesn t have anything to do with politics, as a matter of practical politics isn t the president putting the republican party in the same spot he is successfully put you in during the campaign. he is defending the middle class and you guys are protecting tax breaks for the wealthy. right. and that is empty and false rhetoric. it is our job to explain to the american people that big government doesn t help the poor. big government creates massive debt which causes your price to rise. your gas price going up if you make $20,000 a year and have two kids you are poor and when the gas prices go from $3.20 to $3.0 that is president obama doing that with big government and his debt. if you are a senior citizen trying to save money and you get no cost of living increase that is president obama doing that to your prices because his massive debt causes price