john mccain and lindsay graham wants to try to avert those cuts which would be a good thing but there wouldn t be any cuts. perhaps they ve decided to make the announcement that this thing is dead after the markets close today. however, mark zandi from moody s analytical said yesterday, wall street already knew this thing was going to fail. it s baked into the cake. this show is perfect for that topic. today we have senator john kyle on, senor john kerry on and grover nordquist here. man, this is a good show. glad we showed up. violence in cairo leaving 20 people dead. there s more than 700 people injured. 3,000 protesters clashing with police and around the square. they re demanding the military government transfer power to the egyptian people. they set fire to tents in that square. egypt s culture minister reportedly resigning over the government s handling of the
transparent pledge that republicans take to their voters. democrats don t like the pledge that republicans have taken to the voters that they won t raise taxes. i m kind of concerned about the secret pledges that democrats make to the special spending interests, the labor unions and the trial lawyers a the earmark crowd that they will keep raising taxes to give them money. those are pledges but they re secret and they don t tell you you about them. the republican commitment, we will not raise your taxes is very public. everybody knows about it. and you could vote for or against a congressman or senator. if you think we should have higher taxes, vote for the democrat. there you go. you were talking about how that should be the brand for the republicans, we won t raise your taxes and we learned last night in 60 minutes you started as a political activist at the age of 12 working for nixon. they had a soundbite in the 60 minutes piece last night. here s a republican congressman who
if it does fail like we like indications are, who looks bad? well, i think it s going to be the leaders on the hill that look bad. i do not think the president looks bad in this instance. it is those 12 members of that super committee that actually look bad and, you know, washington as a whole will look bad as well. but really, the buck stops at those 12 members. do you really think, maya, that the president will be exonerated from any responsibility being he is the president and he was barely in touch with this committee maybe once a week, talked to john kerry and went to asia when it came to be crunch time. the failure of the super committee reflects so badly on everybody who is part of all of this. i mean, it reflects badly on the folks who are involved, on leadership, on the white house because in the end, this is the terrible reinforcement of the notion that we can t govern in washington and we have a huge problem facing us and we can t get it done. and we re not supposed
look, my country is more important. it s that pile of bills that s not going to go away. the challenges that we have are not going to disappear. we need to cross that divide. i m ready. i m waiting. there s so much to discuss about this. i mean, no wonder congress approval rating is 13% and plummeting if you can plummet from 13%. number 2, newt gingrich appeared to call this completely correct from the beginning where he called the super committee the stupidest thing he had ever heard of. number three, where has the president of the united states been in this entire discussion? you could argue that he was there in those discussions with john boehner over the summer when we faced that deficit reduction crisis then but where has he been now? he s been in asia. he called before he left, called and said how is it going? how is the super committee going? not good, great. i ve got run. senator kerry s retort to that is the republicans wanted the president out. really? i saw the speaker
good morning to you, sir. good morning. good day to have you, it looks like the super committee will announce they simply could not come to an agreement. they could come to an agreement but the democrats want to raise taxes rather than cut spending. the problem we have in the united states is the federal government spends too much. obama took spending from a fifth of the economy up to a quarter. 20% of the gdp to 25% of gdp. the only fix there, only way to solve the problem that we re going deeper into is to spend less money. so we need to spend less money. the democrats say we don t need to spend less money, we need to get the peasants to send enough in so the king can keep spending as he s become accustomed. no to more taxes, we must have spending restraint. democrats said we d rather blow the whole thing up if we don t get our tax dollars. were your ears burning yesterday morning? john kerry was talking about you on meet the press.