no. neil: here you are one of their heroes, saying you would in fact be open to some things, revenue enhancers, whatever you want to call them that speaker boehner and republican leaders were looking at as long as you don t raise the rates. many in the tea party don t share that view. anytime you re looking at doing something like that, you are effectively raising taxes and that s a nonstarter to them, what do you say? well, we ve got to be practical. i would agree with that, if this were a perfect situation and if i were president, then i could draw that line in the sand. here are the nonnegotiateables. don t raise the debt ceiling. that s more important, don t raise rates and don t raise the debt ceiling. even though they do some of these other things in order to come up with a temporary solution, yes, i could live with that, despite the fact that it s going to effectively be a revenue enhancer, they re playing games with the words again. here are the nonnegotiatable and i tota
do you think the resolve with the conservatives that stand firm may crumble with all of the pressure to beat that august 2nd deadline. you know, one of the more difficult things we did in terms of compromise and shared sacrifice. we voted to raise it 2.4 trillion. something we didn t want to do. we have done our part to raise the debt ceiling but solve the problem and that s why we feel as conservatives and again, even democrats that were brave enough to vote for it. we solved the problem and do it in a bipartisan way and shared sacrifice. we learned last night that speaker boehner was willing to go along with the revenue enhancers until he said in the words that the white house moved the goal post and wanted more. does that mean he would have supported taxes. can you and other conservatives live with that? he better not be.
for. solution to the long-term problem . the reasons we get in the problem. do you think the resolve with the conservatives that stand firm may crumble with all of the pressure to beat that august 2nd deadline. you know, one of the more difficult things we did in terms of compromise and shared sacrifice. we voted to raise it 2.4 trillion. something we didn t want to do. we have done our part to raise the debt ceiling but solve the problem and that s why we feel as conservatives and again, even democrats that were brave enough to vote for it. we solved the problem and do it in a bipartisan way and shared sacrifice. we learned last night that speaker boehner was willing to go along with the revenue enhancers until he said in the words that the white house moved the goal post and wanted more. does that mean he would have
neil: you would support, you re popular with the tea party, they love you, practically a god to them. no. neil: here you are one of their heroes, saying you would in fact be open to some things, revenue enhancers, whatever you want to call them that speaker boehner and republican leaders were looking at as long as you don t raise the rates. many in the tea party don t share that view. anytime you re looking at doing something like that, you are effectively raising taxes and that s a nonstarter to them, what do you say? well, we ve got to be practical. i would agree with that, if this were a perfect situation and if i were president, then i could draw that line in the sand. here are the nonnegotiateables. don t raise the debt ceiling. that s more important, don t raise rates and don t raise the debt ceiling. even though they do some of these other things in order to come up with a temporary solution, yes, i could live with that, despite the fact that it s going to effectively be
say. look at the cnn poll said. 66% of americans want a compromise reached right now. 66%. bill: but when you ask them specifically, and our fox polling whether they want the debt kreeling to rise or not they are against a rise in the debt ceiling. we are following it. if anything big happens then i will come in. but i think that you have got to be careful here in how you parse this. and we can we the american people can strengthen the nation which is of course should be everybody s goal, by being smart. by surgical revenue enhancers and at the same time drastic spending cuts. it can happen if both sides step