i got this straight. liberals holding their party captive to more spending, fine. tea partiers holding their party to holding their party to spending, not fine. republicans considering a shorter debt extension until the end of this year to keep the heat on washington to resolve this bad. democrats pushing a longer-debt extension until the end of next year, after the election, to keep the heat off the president, good. no, not good. not good. not even right. the tea partiers aren t holding this process hostage. big spenders in washington are. a compliant and complicit media is. so tea partiers are nuts for saying this spending charade won t go on. democrats advocating continuing the charade are nuts so the spending will go on. come on, who is zooming here? tea partiers reminding washington it s the spending, stupid, or those hoisting more spending and just calling the tea partiers stupid.
pandering to the tea party base. i m hearing all this, and i m thinking to myself, self, see if i got this straight. liberals holding their party captive to more spending, fine. tea partiers holding their party to holding their party to spending, not fine. republicans considering a shorter debt extension until the end of this year to keep the heat on washington to resolve this bad. democrats pushing a longer-debt extension until the end of next year, after the election, to keep the heat off the president, good. no, not good. not good. not even right. the tea partiers aren t holding this process hostage. big spenders in washington are. a compliant and complicit media is. so tea partiers are nuts for saying this spending charade won t go on. democrats advocating continuing the charade are nuts so the spending will go on. come on, who is zooming here? tea partiers reminding
democrats as to what to do about that. this morning we talked with congresswoman loretta sanchez of california, democratic side. and billbrae about that. here is what he said about it. he thinks the onus needs to be put on employers to stop illegal immigration. here is what he said. let s concentrate on a simple system of verification and only after we have controlled illegal immigration should we be talking about any of the other stuff that s being piled in and holding the process hostage. congressman bilbray, do you believe if you put in the system and put the onus on employers not to hire undocumented aliens, that these people will simply go home? i mean, what do you do with undocumented aliens who are already in this country? first what you do is stop paying them to stay here. do not tell the world that you are going to reward illegal immigration. here s the big point of
comprehensive as kach word for the amnesty proposal that reflexes the mistake we made in 86 which is something that really gets people upset. if you re talking about requiring all employers use e verify and we crack down on the source of the problem, illegal employers but to hold all the process hostage for a proposal to somehow accommodate those who are illegally here before we talk about stopping illegal immigration is the one that sets people off. why is that such a problem? explain to me why that s such a problem. why is it such a problem that there are 11 million people illegally here. because you ought to come down to latin america like i do. you re telling the world that we re going to reward the people that come here illegally while we have 100 million that waited patiently and played by the rules. you won t be able to control the border if you announce another amnesty and announce to the world we re going to reward those who break our laws while we tell those who play by
neil: what did you think of the fact he took you on exchange and it went back and forth? guest: he was cordial, i don t have anything to say, really, about that, we disagree fundamentally on the direction of our country. i believe in a smaller government and he believes in one that can control your health care, that can control corporations, and really goes down the list of things that are going to be a nanny state government. neil: does it borrow you this notwithstanding, you have folks like john kerry saying this is the tea party downgrade that we suffered from s&p, that this was the tea party meltdown across europe, the promise then democrats saying that is the case, and the vice president of the united states whether he called you terrorists are not, that you were homing holding this process hostage, the strategy on the part of the white house and maybe leading democrats is the reason why we