so true. paul ryan rose to national prominence, brooke, rose to the speakership on the strength of what the ryan budget, what was the underlying principle there? our debt, we were spending too much. our debts were getting out of control. we needed to make hard choices to reel those in. that was in 2010. we have some of that sound. let me play some of that. this is from a few years ago, aka yesteryear. what we have here is a spending gusher that will keep on gushing and they have no plan to get this fiscal house in order. we are can cutting spending. ever heard that type of statement around this town before? we really do believe that the value of this republican majority has been a change to this culture. we want to balance the budget. they don t. we want to restrain spending. they want to spend more money. we think taxpayers have given enough to washington. who who who is leading
right, our families thrive, our communities flourish, and our nation can achieve anything at all. we begin the hour with this reminder. assumptions in the new washington are dangerous. but with the midnight deadline approaching, the prevailing assumption is that the government won t shut down, that the mammoth two-year framework brokered in the senate will end up on the president s desk. there is a lot of complaining on the left and the right. the plan itself, stunning. in washington where republicans control everything, this new plan is anchored on massive new spending, massive new deficit spending. and on erasing those restraints from the obama administration. gone, banished, it seems, from this republican party. what we have here is a spending gusher that s going to keep on gushing, and they have no plan to get this fiscal house in order. we are cutting spending. you haven t heard that kind of statement before around this town, but we really do believe that the value of this