characterizes you and conservatives and republicans you want to kill granny, you want to destroy the environment and you hate children, especially sick children that you want to just leave to fend for themselves. that s his characterization. but meanwhile he s accumulating all of this debt, record deficits, and then he lies. the president says he s cutting. he s not cutting. can you explain how you are going to combat that? well, the best way to do it is numbers don t lie. let s put our numbers out front and show his. but let the outside ev study him. we have to continue to fight for this country. this country is too important and the one thing the house is doing is we are put a budget forward that balances. even the white house will tell you, rare less of the smoke and mirrors, his budget will never balance. sad. we are robbing the kids blind. go back and look what he said about president bush $9 trillion in debt ago. we will watch this unfold very closely. tell the fellow republi
me. i think any family recognizes when you re when you have spent on your credit card. there s a time when the bills come due and you don t get to go to the credit card company and say, well, i just have more debt here. but i don t have a spending problem. well, you have a spending problem. speaker boehner said that president obama has said something similar to him, but today, the white house press secretary, jay carney says of course, the president believes we have a spending problem, specifically driven by health care spending and that s a fact. so, there s some pushback on at least on leader pelosi s statement over the weekend. well, president obama hasn t recognized that we had a spending problem either. you think back to his first inaugural address and he says he s going to cut the deficit in half by the first term and we ve seen record deficits, record spending, trillion dollar plus deficits for as long as president obama s been in office. so for the average american,
me. i think any family recognizes when you re when you have spent on your credit card. there s a time when the bills come due and you don t get to go to the credit card company and say, well, i just have more debt here. but i don t have a spending problem. well, you have a spending problem. speaker boehner said that president obama has said something similar to him, but today, the white house press secretary, jay carney says of course, the president believes we have a spending problem, specifically driven by health care spending and that s a fact. so, there s some pushback on at least on leader pelosi s statement over the weekend. well, president obama hasn t recognized that we had a spending problem either. you think back to his first inaugural address and he says he s going to cut the deficit in half by the first term and we ve seen record deficits, record spending, trillion dollar plus deficits for as long as president obama s been in office. so for the average american,
economy. reporter: that s right. almost a tradition now, the speaker has a little breakfast with reporters before the state of the union. he did that today, bret baier was there, and the speaker really ripped into the president saying, among other things, quote: i don t think he has the guts to do it. he doesn t have the courage to take on the liberal side of his own party, never has. and what the speaker was suggesting was that he thinks we ll see a more partisan president tonight, not someone who s going to be reaching across the aisle. and when you listen to some of boehner s colleagues like kathy mcmorris rogers, they say they re waiting for the president to get serious about entitlement reform. take a listen. president obama hasn t recognized that we had a spending problem east. you think back to his first inaugural address, and he said he was going to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, and we ve seen record deficits, record spending, trillion dollar plus de
same thing happened in reverse on tuesday. and you guys have to come to the table can t keep obstructing. bush tax cuts, there were two waves of tax cuts, in 2001 and 2004 you re right, that led to 54 consecutive months of economic growth. it led to record deficits which you guys only apparently care about when democrats are in the white house and led to humongous plunge in 2008 came under obama. not george bush was handed a surplus and left with a deficit. you can t talk about the fact that bush didn t do anything we had a national security emergency. well, you know what? if you want to fund two wars then you should probably not lower taxes while you re at it. when the enemy comes to us. you re absolutely right. don t lower tax cuts at the same time and worry about the deficit later. jon: politically, you re something of a political expert. politically is it smart for john boehner, okay,