brainer. but michele nunn is running very strong in a lot of polls she s ahead of everyone, except for maybe david per dur but they flip back and forth. republicans down here in georgia have been saying we got to make sure we get the right person to go up against michele nunn in november, hence the reason why there was a lot of hand wringing when paul broun appeared to be the early front runner. at the moment, sean, it looks like people who could cross over a number of different voting groups are out in the lead. jack kingston district is 28% african-american and he wins by a considerable margin every couple of years. so at this point looking like perdue and kingston will be duking it out. the question is how vitriolic will this race get. david perdue getting a lesson in election jargon. when asked if he favored revenue
make the investments. what is the alternative? the alternative is we have to figure out how to afford the government we want and want want the government we can afford and that means some consistency. lot of the issue is not with the national debt but our unwillingness on the republican side to pay for it with revenue increases, tax increases and on the democratic side the unwillingness to make some cuts in favor to entitlement programs. we need to do both. president obama in recent months has been offering a compromise saying yes, we will cut some of our favorite programs. you ve got to raise some of the revenues on folks you don t want to raise it on. republicans have simply been saying no and then complaining about the debt problem. but the debt problem is a matter of more expenditures than revenues and you fix that not just by lowering expenditures but by raising revenues so you have an implacable quadrant of the u.s. congress saying no revenue raises, no tax raises on anybody ev
john: very exciting game. the president revealing his budget coming up on wednesday it looks like now is the best guess offering to trade cuts and entitlements for more revenue raises. what do you think of the idea? i don t think he is going at it the right way. i appreciate he is trying to get at the deficit. we have to get at the deficit. you have to get the economy growing so you need to get a tax policy that lowers your overall tax rate. i think you have to do more at government cuts, more like a government employee buyout program like at the stated levels and go at targeted things like that cutting spending within the overall organization. i think those are ways we ought to look. we ought to look at the states. a lot of states have been dealing with tight budget situations for five years now. he could find a lot of clues in how to deal with it then. john: 33 republican governors they are taking prudent steps in
enough for something like that to pass. i just spoke to some democratic aides in the senate who said they don t feel like they have gotten any closer with republicans over the past couple of days, over the weekend on negotiations but they will not make a move until republicans counteroffer. whether that s on deeper spending cuts than what the white house suggested or trying to come along with the revenue raises, we ll see. but there s saying right now nothing s moved just yet. erin, you have people at home saying how is this a stalemate? when you buy a car or house, you make your first offer, the person counters and you go there. how do the republicans justify not countering, and if their counter is simply laughter, that doesn t settle well with people who know they could pay more in taxes the beginning of the year. that s right. my sense is they will behind closed doors because of the existence of people and forces
but the president did extend medicare by eight years and folks aren t buying i m going to take care of people currently on the system, we re going to change it forever for everybody else. so you know we have to do that. we have to do it as part of an overall budget deal. a $4 trillion deal. where we put everything on the table. if we want to get a deal, let s get an overall global deal that puts $4 trillion on the table that includes revenue raises. paul ryan $4 trillion is a drop in the bucket. before you saw ridiculous. where it s $4 trillion or $6 trillion to get a budget deal we have to have revenue-raising measures. you cannot implement paul ryan s plan while not allowing for any increases first of all, you know, the governor romney showed enormous courage when he picked paul ryan for just this reason because he s willing to engage that battle. we know we have a president who