there can be debate on these issues. we believe they would be defeated in the senate. to try to get them part of this budget bill will just ruin the ability to come to a fair compromise and keep the government running. senator, the new york times reported you had a conference call with the press about this situation, and apparently the call was open sooner than you quite realized and you were overheard according to the new york times trepg the other senators by saying i always use the word extreme, that is what the caucus instructed me to use this week. is that a true report of the way this call developed? yeah, and there is no i used the word extreme repeatedly. i have no problem that reporters heard me use the word extreme. many of them have as well. our caucus had a meeting a few weeks ago where we decided to call the hr 1 extreme, and it is extreme. for instance, cutting cancer research, i think that s
resolutions instead of cutting the hundred billion they pledged. potential 2012 candidate for president, congresswoman michele bachmann will headline that rally. newt gingrich will also be at the capitol thursday, speaking to house freshmen. there is no chance that gingrich will say anything like what he said when he was in a similar situation as speaker and actually had the responsibility of governing. newt gingrich gave a speech when we reached the 98 agreement between clinton and gingrich, and he said to his what he called perfectionist caucus, look, they elected a democratic president, some democrats in the senate and house, and by the way a number of republicans in the senate that don t agree with the republicans in the house, and the american public expects us to move forward. if the profession is caucus and the republican party wins and shuts down the government, it will be to the great detriment
meet them halfway. today, leader reed said we are willing to cut 30 billion. we are trying to reach out, compromise, meet part of the way. as i said before, i think speaker boehner would like to do that, but he has a tiger by the tail, the tea party, that believes compromise is a dirty word. senator, there are many details in a version of a budget bill, including the de-funding of planned parenthood. if that was in the house proposal and insistence on complete de-funding of planned parenthood, would you in the senate be able to accept that? no. there was some talk about some riders being accepted, but let s be clear, those would be noncontroversial riders we haven t heard about. bottom line, planned parenthood or epa, we will not accept those riders, and any thought to the contrary is wrong. we believe that they don t belong in a budget bill. there can be debate on these
was bad for the republicans and good for president clinton, but what newt gingrich will tell the freshmen thursday on capitol hill, when the government shut down, the next election, 199 newt gingrich won that election, that republicans continued to win the house and the senate, and after having been in the minority in the house for 40 years, the gingrich thinking about the gingrich shut downs were that they were successful politically for the house and senate republicans. and as you know, bill clinton also won that election. so there is good evidence from political scientists. you don t have a lot of shut downs at the federal level, but had many on the state level. what they found is a shut down under divided government helps the executive, he gets a boost in the next election, and it hurts every single incumbent, every republican or democrat
then there was revolt in the house, you win, 64 billion. now the democrats moved to where paul ryan was when he began. even if they get that number, in washington would be considered a win for the democrats, they have gone to where the republican leadership thought the opening bid would be. so when we actually get a deal, i think the cuts are going to be really dramatic, more so than the adults in both parties thought were wise a couple months ago. there is no version of this that you can see that isn t a republican victory, whether the republicans understand that or not is what is unclear. as you say, they moved all the way over to the republicans opening gap butt, but what would be the possible solution to getting something that passes the house and senate. can, for example, john boehner abandon the tea party and create a package that is voted for by