our own individual liberty. neil: sequestration. life narrowly seems to be going on. are you surprised? the dow hit an all-time high yesterday. there has got to be a discount factor in the marketplace because we have such a dysfunctional congress. my only comment is can you imagine what the marketplace book like today. energy is coming back. housing starts is coming back. looking at education reform. lots of good things are happening. i have never been more optimistic about where the economy is going. i have never been less optimistic about where our political class is taking us. and part of it is reflected in the sequestration debate. so, imagine if we were able to get our act together where we would be in terms of our economic growth and potential right now. it s that discount factor that i think american citizens really ought to be concerned about. we can do better than that we deserve better than that. neil: governor jon huntsman thanks very much. good seeing you again. tha
leave your hurling. one of the economic advisers clearly threatening one of the most celebrated journalists in washington apparently because bob woodward wasn t saying the administration line in washington. sperling blasting woodward for saying the president was changing the sequestration debate by moving the gold post and demanding revenues, i.e. taxes, when all side is agreed about at it all about the size of the pending cuts. i want you to folk tuesday on that portion of sterling s e-mail to woodward that gets creepy. i know you may not believe this but as a friend i think you will regret staking that claim. le da da da. you will regret staking out that claim. what? was that sperling pulling a into soprano? here s a rule you might remember. i m going to [bleep] the one who
president said the state of the union, he didn t say strong, he said stronger. and a lot of us thought, stronger than what? but we need to make the case on what america shall be and should be and that means bigger ideas, and that means laying out some things. to the future of this, i would say we have the sequestration debate right ahead of us. the president lectured us on that. that was his idea. he needs to take the blame for sequestration. i don t think we get a lot done in that battle. i don t think we get a lot done in the cr battle that comes up in march. but i do think the debt ceiling debate ahead of us in may and beyond is a place where we can put the marker down for a balanced budget amendment. martha: laid out that way doesn t sound liked you guys will have a whole lot to do. sounds like a lot more paralysis that is a thing frustrating to so many americans on both sides of the aisle. perhaps, you know, republicans need to articulate, you know, more clearly to the american pe
because they have no confidence in sure ty in the marketplace. we have a democrat senate that hasn t produced a budget in four years! that s the only thing they re charge to do do is get a budget. the president submitted a budget, yet not one democrat will vote for it. until we get our fiscal house in order, but you guys can t even get a budget through the senate. rick: brad, i got to ask you, because the republicans, talking about getting their house in order, the republican party is split on a unifying message for a way forward. we re hearing sort of cracks in the wall on the sequestration debate on immigration. it doesn t seem like the republicans are in lock step on a lot of issues. i m wondering how they can combat this president and keep him from pushing his agenda forward when they re not really on the same page themselves. we are on the same page. we are with fiscal responsibility. we re on the same page of not continuing to spend and not get return on our money.
gigantic political cop-out. that s what the sequestration debate has turned into. the president refuses to lead, no one will talk details how to address our debt crisis and the deficit and debt crisis, everyone is entrenched in their positions and sitting back and saying, i think sequestration is going to happen. you know who is going to take the brunt of it. the across the board nature of the cuts are going to hurt our ability to train and maintain, vehicles, ships and airplanes and the things that provide the readiness for our military are going to take a dramatic cut and we ll have done nothing to reform the way we spend money and put our country on a sound physical track. of course, pete, as we talk about cutting back, our enemies are ramping up and you see north korea doing more testing and iran moving possibly closer to nuclear weapons. do our enemies overseas pay attention to our budget woes and our plans here at home? sure they do. they look at our capabilities. they look a