chrischristie.com. people should look at them. they re tough. they re tough choices, but that s what we have to make to get our budget in balance. that s what i did by reducing or eliminating 800 programs in new jersey as governor. and i will take the same approach, a not a meat ax. criticized for missing a lot of senate votes. here s how senator rubio responded to those criticisms. these votes that are happening in the senate, we re not going to be able to make a difference unless we have a new president and a better president. that s why i m running for president. and that s why i m out there every day campaigning. when i miss votes in washington, it s because i m running for president. is that a valid excuse, you think? well, listen, marco and the people of florida are going to have to decide whether they think that s a valid excuse or not. i just tell you that s the same kind of defeatist attitude that s putding washington in the place it s in. i mean, why not put tax refor
i think we have a rifle shot, not a meat ax. we need to rifle shot these programs to keep from a government shutdown. we shouldn t shut down the government. but there are certain things we shouldn t compromise on. tough decisions will be made in the next few days. bill: when you move to the new year, do you expect the new republican majority in congress to succeed or fail? i m absolutely convinced that our lesson from this last election that they want to us govern southern we ll govern and we ll have a positive agenda. if the president wants to veto the results of that positive agenda he can. but we ll be coming forward with progressive and productive legislation to send to the president of the united states. that way we can elect a republican president in 2016. bill: final topic, secretary of
knows is not true. what we wouldn t have done is pass add 2700 page bill that takes away a trillion dollars from health care providers and causes millions of americans to lose the plans they have and like. we would have gone in a different direction. instead of taking a meat ax to the american health care system, we would have taken a scalpel, done things like interstate health insurance, allow consumers to pool together to purchase insurance cheaper, medical malpractice reform. imagine how much is lost each year with unnecessary tests. those are the type of things we would have done. ironically, this 2700 page monstrosity, obama care, when all is said and done, you re still going to have 30 million uninsured. so out of all this disruption comes a result with 30 million still uninsured.
that i have providing insurance, with the new ago ra gags rules, if it requires me to aggregate all of the employees and it s done that to all of the different entities, it d be a big burden, yes. it s a buzzing distraction in the back of your head all the time. how are we going to handle this, what are we going to do to get in front of it, how are we going to be competitive in the workplace but be viable at the same time. it s been a never-ending distraction for the last years, and i think what you ve seen is they ve preempttively increased premiums to get in front of it as well which has made the problem worse. anything that hinders the growth in our economy, why do we have it? coming up, mitch mcconnell says the gop would have taken a scalpel, not a meat ax to the system.
send air force one out to silicone valley, loads it up with smart people, bring them back to washington and fix this problem. it s ridiculous. and everybody knows that. so do you think that somebody here needs to take the fall, that kathleen sebelius as some suggested ought to resign? let s have congressional hearings. let s find out who is responsible and then take the appropriate action in my view. look this is just the beginning of the problems associated with a massive restructuring of one fifth of our economy. and there s going to be a whole lot more problems associated with this before it s done. that s why we republicans have to keep up the fight. but we have to rival shot it rather than go at it with a meat ax which cannot succeed. so rifle shot meaning try and repeal parts of it rather than the ted cruz strategy? do you think ted cruz