this assignment is they were convinced i was serious about it, and i m going to be standing with them as they come up with the recommendations. so thank you very much, everybody. martha: there you have it, president obama and allan simpson, former republican senator from wyoming and the democrat erskine bowles, long-time adviser to president clinton, both standing on either side of president obama as laid out some interesting proposals here. he says that they re working on $20 billion in cuts. he said that they ve gone through the budget, and they ve outlined $20 billion in cuts. that was something he talked about during the campaign, going line by line and finding out things that were wasteful and getting rid of them. he also said that he has proposed a three-year spending freeze in the government, which would be very interesting. we re going to interesting to pull off. we re going to talk about that in a second. also said that $1.3 trillion decifit is what he walked in the door wit
fundraiser reporter: thursday could be one small step, this crowd hopes one giant voice to change some minds. megyn: you heard president presa is set some visit the space center. service cuts, spending freeze. tough times. but not for one group. not on is this one group not cutting back. it s still getting hefty raise. as millions of us send in our tax returns news about some new tax hikes about to go into effect. i said new tax hikes. oh, happy day. are you affected? we ll tell you when we come back. @=h÷ú@úñp
with people who are never going to be behind them, anyway. for example, this spending freeze that he announced? what a typical democratic idea. it doesn t really solve the problem. it s not enough to put a dent in the problem because, of course, they re not going to touch the pentagon or anything like that. so it s not going to fix the problem. the republicans only laugh at it. it doesn t win any of them over, and it alienates his own base. the democrats never curry favor with their own base. a year ago, when he won the election, obama finally had a base of people. my god, he won indiana, he won north carolina, he won virginia, traditional red states. it s all gone now. those people are disillusioned. larry: you said it s not what you voted for. it s not. that s not what i stood in line at the voting booth for. i want my hour back. larry: do you think it might change? yes, i do. i think presidents have learning curves. kennedy certainly did. many of them do not have good first
abolish. i asked three times. she couldn t answer it once. that s what these republicans need to be asked. are you going to balance the budget? what did you say you would cut? what did the people support you on? i said i would cut everything. i said i could get rid of the department of education in washington d.c. i would send the money back to the states. i would give them choices. a 1994 thing. it was also i talked about a spending freeze. i talked about a five-year spending freeze and i said we have to go into it being agonist agonistic. these are the goals we re going to set because if you have a five-year spending freeze at that time, we would have grown out of the depression. to stick with the addiction metaphor, that s like a moderation strategy. what do you mean? i m only going to have two drinks because you could do away with all discretionary spending now i would be saying we re
can persuade people to do anything. i mean, during the campaign, the republicans did accuse him of that a number of times, of being the messiah and the one and believing in his own publicity. i m starting to believe it could be true, because if he thinks at this late date that he can get them in a room, it s going to change, we re going to put it on c-span, maybe some of that will change something, but, you know, it s the job of party b to block the agenda of party a. what he has to do, i think, is do what roosevelt did when he came in. he didn t want to be friends with anybody. he said about the bankers, i welcome their hatred. i welcome their hatred because they re not serving the interests of the american people. larry: so you want him to get tough? get tough well, of course, i do want him to get tough, and stop doing what democrats always do, which is try to curry favor with people who are never going to be behind them, anyway. for example, this spending freeze that he announ