steps will be taken aimed at restoring the balance between various levels of government. progress may be slow. measured in inches and feet not miles. but we will progress. it is time to reawaken this industrial giant. to get government back within is its means and lighten our punitive tax burden, these will be the first priorities and on these principles there will be no compromise. sean: some things never change a clip from ronald reagan s inaugural address in 1981. maybe president obama can learn a thing or two from him. and joining us now is the author of the new book called the book of man readings on the path to manhood radio talk show host on the secretary of education good to see you. and we appreciate youeing
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so personal between two of you? well, the president the governor had lodged maybe six or seven attacks against me. we felt we needed to make a response. and our response was, extremely proud of my record, and what i ve done and the fact governor pawlenty did implement cap and trade in minnesota. the businesses are still suffering because of it. and he was behind the individual mandate in health care, which is unconstitutional. he wanted to require it for minnesota and he praised it. just a fact and also, he says ther yaf small government is over. i don t think that is what people are looking for right now what. they want is a champion for what they$h beliee in that. is what i ve been doing in washington. i ve been in a lot of dust ups in washington taking on president obama and taken on nancy pelosi. i think that is what we need in the president, someone bold, new and different. sean: a lot of issues of principle came up. this came up between you and senator santorum tonight abo
senator santorum tonight about getting things moving forward. he was trying to make an argument in washington have you divided government sometimes have you to compromise. what was your standard to raise the debt ceiling? you had a standard. my standard for raising the debt ceiling was yes, cut cap and balance but we had to have#l a full repeal of obama care. my opinion has been, i would not raise the debt ceiling right now. because we re almost at the $17 trillion. when i came into office we were at $8.67 trillion. in over four years, we ve almost doubled the debt. standard and poor s proved me right. we are not in a position to be able to repay our debt when we continue to spend this money. we didn t have to default. we what we had to do is let markets know we won t default and will get our credit rating back. we re going to pay military and our it?s but then, we re not going to kick the can down the road.