say you will vote for it but also you will not push your republican colleagues. is that because it is bad politics? let me tell you, in the senate we have other budgets that republicans are pushing, pat toomey of pennsylvania has a thoughtful ten-year proposal he likes and he, like i, also support the ryan budget and my kentucky colleague, rand paul has a budget and what i said to our members is we will not be able to coalesce behind just one and may well vote on the ryan budget and i ll make sure the democrats get to vote on the obama budget which the my counterpart, harry reid thought was terrific in february and there will be votes on several different budgets in the senate and candidly, chris, none of these budgets will become law and the real action, on deficit reduction, is down at the white house, and, the meetings headed by the vice president. chris: i want to play a clip get a good drink of water there. i want to play a clip from an ad a liberal group is running now
the fall. i was surprised and i thought he d get in, so many others had not and there was so much support for him, particularly, a lot of the funders who were unhappy with the republican party, unhappy with the field and wanted him to get in and i take him at his word it was for personal reasons and i think it opens up the field for somebody else. probably helps in the short-term, mitt romney, and tim pawlenty and the people who are in the race. but, i think this is going to open it up for chris christie and paul ryan, and paul ryan will think hard about this and he said he wanted to pass his budget to term the debate for the 2012 election and if nobody takes up the mantle, he s going to think, well, makes i should and the third person i would say you have to think about now is jeb bush, because really? despite the brand name damage i think people feel too early for him he might feel that and i think he does, and also think that look, if the field doesn t change and nobody else
is terribly wrong on his assessment of representative ryan s plan. it is good fiscally sound and courageous. we have to make sure that we are understanding that ryan s budget is a big difference as opposed to the obama budget, which has us on the road to bankruptcy. ryan s plan saved us 1.2 billion dollars everyday over a decade,รง as compared to obama s big spending government over reach more indebtness plan that he has us on. sean: i m not sure he was apologizing because the media was attacking him. i did interview him monday. he said i m saying we need to take that plan and make sure the american people are onboard. maybe find ways to improve it. he sees the need and has called for the need to reform medicare. that s something that he said for a number of years. i m not putting up a defense
in order to get back to the historic level of spending that we ve had in this country, over 20%. the paul ryan budget gets us under 20% of gdp over ten years. obama budget keeps us at levels above 23% of gdp. about 25% right now. spending is the problem, not revenues. so we will not agree to raise tax rates in order to generated revenues to prevent us to make the savings we need to achieve. chris: is there a single social program, social spending program of significance that you are willing to eliminate as part of the deal? elimination is not for the critical programs but reform is necessary. i just listened very carefully what jon kyl said, believe he has set the stage for us to enter into a meaningful conversation. it that is be a conversation where democrats are prepared to talk about the future of major entitlement programs, reform
more. in order to get back to the historic level of spending that we ve had in this country, over 20%. the paul ryan budget gets us under 20% of gdp over ten years. obama budget keeps us at levels above 23% of gdp. about 25% right now. spending is the problem, not revenues. so we will not agree to raise tax rates in order to generated revenues to prevent us to make the savings we need to achieve. chris: is there a single social program, social spending program of significance that you are willing to eliminate as part of the deal? elimination is not for the critical programs but reform is necessary. i just listened very carefully what jon kyl said, believe he has set the stage for us to enter into a meaningful conversation. it that is be a conversation where democrats are prepared to talk about the future of major entitlement programs, reform