cut out of the military without cutting our readiness and without cutting our ability to defend the country. mike: you ve also talked about you re willing to work with president obama. do you think that president obama is going to be willing to work would you and other members of the tea party about who he was very critical of during the campaign? you know, it s yet to be determined. i ve not met the president nor taukdz to him. i would like to have a discussion to tell him that the tea party isn t against him personally, we re just against the ideas of expansive government, the ideas of debt, really that the federal government is the answer to everything, but i still think we could have a collegial conversation and look, he s come out in the past week and said you know what, earmarks are bad. he needs to convince the senate democrats and the senate the house democrats to also join the republicans and be opposed to the ear marking. mike: you ve talked about a divided government
clarify that position for us. i m opposed to ear marking and i won t use ear marking personally. i have taken a pledge. there is a citizens against government pledge that i took during the campaign. it was a confusion over a reporter not understanding what i was saying. i think ear markings are bad. there is some symbolism. definitely the symbolism is bad and i think it encourages people to vote for large appropriations bill because all of a sudden mrs. smith gets a museum in your hometown and it. shannon: and i know that mitch mcconnell has not yet sounded like he is willing to sign on to an all out ban. he has admitted there has been controversy within the gop. will they get on the same page? i don t know what their positions are. i haven t spoken to anybody really about this. i think there is a chance it will pass. they have had the bans before. the house had it previously.
chris: i can t let this go. we just heard that the country had a $1.3 trillion deficit in the last year and i mean should democrats be preaching about being serious about the deficit? i can t speak for all democrats. i can speak for this one who has worked as senator cornyn said with senator sessions to try to bring down spending as a senator who doesn t ear mark. they won t even pledge that they will quit ear marking the republicans. how serious independent voters need to take a hard look at that. if they won t even say that they will stop ear marking in this kind of spending problem we are facing, i think there is a lot of politics being played, chris. chris: senator cornyn? our democratic tallies need to look in the mirror and accept responsibility for the fact that the democrats have been in charge in congress since 2007 and by the way, the deficit a percentage of gross domestic product, 1.2%. last year it was 9.9% because of the spending juggernaut that
chris: i can t let this go. we just heard that the country had a $1.3 trillion deficit in the last year and i mean should democrats be preaching about being serious about the deficit? i can t speak for all democrats. i can speak for this one who has worked as senator cornyn said with senator sessions to try to bring down spending as a senator who doesn t ear mark. they won t even pledge that they will quit ear marking the republicans. how serious independent voters need to take a hard look at that. if they won t even say that they will stop ear marking in this kind of spending problem we are facing, i think there is a lot of politics being played, chris. chris: senator cornyn? our democratic tallies need to look in the mirror and accept responsibility for the fact that the democrats have been in charge in congress since 2007 and by the way, the deficit a percentage of gross domestic product, 1.2%. last year it was 9.9% because of the spending juggernaut that