by special interests and the paul ryan and what donald trump ran against. they re going to have to defend this. health care was the biggest issue in virginia, they didn t even pass it, but virginians didn t wanted me caid destroyed. that s the biggest political message you get out of this. 2018 is going to be about tax cuts. do people want to take away tax cuts from families who adopt babies to give a bigger tax cut to exxonmobil? this gives the resistance something to run on. it gives lots people lots of things to run on. the republicans have the white house, both chambers of congress, and they ve not been able to get anything done. folks want results. i have been across the country talking about this, been with lots of focus groups, with trump voters who say, we want to give him a year to see what he can do. coming up on a year. 4.1% unemployment rate, record high stock market, the economy s doing great [ cross talk ] are we living in the same place? i want to get in the
principles which is no surprise now that the republican party has become the trump party and principles have absolutely no meaning. they don t even pretend to have any meaning to republicans anymore. the principle that they all violated today was fiscal conservatism. they all voted to dramatically increase the deficit and the national debt. something they all ran against. and no one s been noisier about that in the past than congressman mark meadows. he claims to be a principled anti-deficit conservative, one of the most conservative members of the house. he voted for this resolution. here he is this morning confessing to violating his principles. you re right. the deficit continues to increase and certainly as we look at tax reform, the $1.5 trillion that s in the senate budget that will pass later today in the house, you know, it does not shed a good light in
principles which is no surprise now that the republican party has become the trump party and principles have absolutely no meaning. they don t even pretend to have any meaning to republicans anymore. the principle that they all violated today was fiscal conservatism. they all voted to dramatically increase the deficit and the national debt. something they all ran against. and no one s been noisier about that in the past than congressman mark meadows. he claims to be a principled anti-deficit conservative, one of the most conservative members of the house. he voted for this resolution. here he is this morning confessing to violating his principles. you re right. the deficit continues to increase and certainly as we look at tax reform, the $1.5 trillion that s in the senate budget that will pass later today in the house, you know, it
you can say i m going to do away with the filibuster so the president can implement his program. you have never seen that before. this is the worst chaos that s ever existed in modern political parties. will rogers once famously said i am not a member of any political party. i am a democrat. and it is true that most of the 20th century the republican party was more disciplined than the democratic party. the first time incumbent president was challenged for renomination within his own party it was a democrat who did that. eugene mccarthy. ran against president lyndon johnson for the 1968 democratic nomination and he had one rule starting that campaign. he would not attack the president personally. no one has ever quit working in a senior advisory role in a democratic white house and then instantly begun attacking the democratic leader of the senate
mitch mcconnell and come to a stick, a microphone and say i won t vote for mitch mcconnell for majority leader. [ applause ] and you can come to a stick and you can say i m going to do away with the filibuster so the president can implement his program. you have never seen that before. this is the worst chaos that s ever existed in modern political parties. will rogers once famously said i am not a member of any political party. i am a democrat. and it is true that most of the 20th century the republican party was more disciplined than the democratic party. the first time incumbent president was challenged for renomination within his own party it was a democrat who did that. eugene mccarthy. ran against president lyndon johnson for the 1968 democratic nomination and he had one rule starting that campaign. he would not attack the president personally. no one has ever quit working in a senior advisory role in a