tea party demanding more cuts in federal spending, a cap on future budgets, and a balanced budget amendment. but at a republican caucus meeting speaker of the house john boehner told everyone in his party, and i quote, get your ass in line. and listen to senator john mccain. what is really amazing about this is that some members are believing that we can pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution in this body with its present reputation, and that is foolish. that is worse than foolish. that is not fair. that is not fair to the american people. to hold out and say we won t agree to raising the debt limit until we pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. it s unfair. it s bizarro. and maybe some people who have only been in this body for six or seven months or so really believe that. others know better. the ground is still shaking in d.c. over this tonight, with no doubt many late-night phone calls going under way right now. we ll cover all of the a
finds the security arrangements were severely deficient and accuses pakistani authorities of deliberately hampering the investigation. an imam linked to a bombing linked to the subways. must leave the country within 90 days. the president of kyrgyzstan has left that country for kazakhstan. now, back to hardball. it is all about this coming november. we have to take the house. then the senate. and two years from now, barack obama is a one-term president! welcome back to hardball. that was republican congresswoman and tea party favorite, michelle bachman. at today s tea party rally in washington. a new poll give us a lot of new
particular constitutional problem. but you add all of these things up together, and you project them out into the future, and you re in a situation where you re not only going to have federal debt exceeding the annual gross domestic product of the country, but you re going to have a federal deficit that is unprecedented. you re going to have federal spending well north of 25% of the total gdp. and those things become simply a bridge too far. they become financially unsustainable, chris. that s a good argument. i like that argument. and were you making that kind of argument, sir, under president bush when he doubled the national debt? actually, yes. well, we didn t hear you. we didn t see any protests like today in washington. i m sorry, let s go to ryan. you re in the streets with all these people. why weren t you there when bush was here doubling the national debt, not vetoing a national spending bill in eight years? i don t think a lot of
we are live at the kennedy space center. our live blog is up and running. join the conversation. head to cnn.com/amfix. first up, the tea party s big day. tax day. today, there were more than 600 protests against big government spending scheduled across the country. the big one takes place in the nation s capital. the tea party express wrapping up its cross country tour there after a stop at the sight of the original tea party, boston. the first lady of the movement, sarah palin, was at that party and they appear to be getting more organized with their sights increasingly set on the mid-term elections in november. jim acosta joins us live from washington. this is undeniably a political force gaining a lot of ground. 14 months ago, nobody had heard of this. reporter: that s right. now it is a force to be reckoned with. you are right. in a few hours from now, there are going to be tea party activists down here in washington sounding off on everything from big government to presiden
problem. but you add all of these things up together, and you project them out into the future. and you re in a situation where you re not only going to have federal debt exceeding the annual gross domestic product of the country, but you re going to have a federal deficit that is unprecedented. you re going to have federal spending well north of 25% of the total gdp. and those things become simply a bridge too far. they become financially unsustainable, chris. that s a good argument, that s a good argument. i like that argument. were you making that kind of argument, sir, under president bush when he doubled the national debt? actually, yes. we didn t hear you, we didn t see any protests like today in washington. let s go to ryan. you re out in the streets there with all of these people. why weren t you there when bush was here, doubling the national debt? not vetoing a single spending bill for eight years. taking us to iraq. by the way, i don t think a lot of libertarians thoug