republicans were so heady and thought you had governs from congress. they had control of the house and senate . the president faced them down and won reelection and drove them out of town. republicans have to control of control of one house, all they can do is containment. if the republicans propose serious entitlement reform they will get crushed it will not be enacted. it will be dema god gogged by the democrats. it will have to be behind closed doors the way the tax cut deal was done where the republicans and democrats agree they will take equal hits. if you don t do entitlement reform what is next. discretional spending. republicans have to do it in a process way. we want to restore the budget to the 2008 level you are not
i think they will be checking one another and saying we can t afford to do this. there will be no earmarks from republicans on the house side. he laid down the law. i don t expect they will. mya. in a couple of minutes that we have left. what kind of speaker do you expect john boehner to be. so far, he has a way with words. he speaks plainly and he is very emotional sometimes, and i think he s going to be someone who challenges the president in very vocal ways. he s going to be a speaker that really is able to discipline his troop in the house and the way that nancy pelosi was. he s coming in with the wind in his back of a strong. i suspect he will be strong. charles what kind of a speaker to coyou expect boehner to be and how do you
the idea of changing the way we do things in washington is why we won. we are bound and determined to change things in the future. that is rob bishop of utah. he is talking about ending the practice of asking for earmarkings. steve hayes from the weekly standard. leiah are henderson from the washington post and syndicated columnist charles crawhammer. steve when the republicans take control of the house. really after all of this waiting it is about to happen. what do you expect to be in the top of the agenda and what will be in the top? i think they will do a lot of process things and make a big deal about ending earmarks
attacking individual programs, you are leaving to the burrcrats and the democrat-obama burrcrats the choice was what you cut and what you don t. i think it is it smart put a cap on spending and say to the administration you go ahead and do it. that way when the program is cut, you are not directly responsible. go back to shannon green s report in the top of the process. and 7400 earmarks that cost a billion. it was a different time and there was not a ban. do you expect the tea partiers to live toupt rhetoric this year? they better. the tea party vores and letremember their numbers have grown by two dozen new freshman.
policemen caught with 124 kilograms was heroin, they were released. they were related distantly because they were related to people kill in the civil war. this is a level of corruption. they have to deal with karzai but this shows how knotty the problem is. is there any way arond karzai and if there isn t, he is the elected president of the country, what can we achieve with him in power? i think we have to accept reamitiy. there are no alternatives and we are in the middle of the war. it is like the kennedies in the middle of the viet nam. they were killed in a coup and the successors were more corrupt than the next. there will not be a knight in shining armor that gallops in