that budget? because if not, then i think we re back to where we have been. i ll say this. if they don t directly confront the spending issue and bring genuine cuts and reforms, not just short-term cuts but budgetary reform, they ll be out of power for a generation. i really believe that. wow. the expectations are so high among the our base and i think among average americans. they looked at this election and said, okay. one party is for big government, big spending. we believe that. we re going the other way. if this party fails to address that, i think they ll be in the wilderness for a long, long time. tim philips, steve, great conversation as always. stay with us. [ male announcer ] this is charlie whose morning flight
everything that congress is doing right now. joining us to talk about this, tea party activist and editor-in-chief of big journalism.com dana lash. thanks for having me back. merry christmas to both of you. thank you. all right. so the republicans and the tea party won a major battle. the bush tax cuts are extended. you ve added a trillion dollars to the federal deficit even though your whole mantra was cut the deficit, balance the budget. what are you going to do now that you won, you re in charge? governing is different than campaigning. what s the agenda? how do you cut the budget? well, first of all there are two inaccuracies in what you just said the first being these are somehow tax cuts. it s not a tax cut. it s basically just an extension of the tax rate which we have had for the past ten years and i don t really think it does all that much truly to alleviate some of the concerns that small businesses have. so far as how it adds to the deficits tax cuts thems
republicans including senator johnny isaacson of georgia. and having a living will where you say how it is you d like decisions to be handled at the end of your life, where you make your own decisions about that ahead of time, that is something the federal government has formally encouraged by legislation for at least 20 years. without controversy. but politically the facts don t really matter right? not if they can be distorted to scare people particularly if they can be distorted to scare old people. it s becoming clear now that there is a connection between the two big things we have observed recently about the health care fight. on the one hand are these crazy, disprovable, but nevertheless endlessly stoked conspiracy theories that health care reform is communism, a secret plot to kill your grandpa, it s a government takeover, it s something called obama-care. it s going to mandate abortions. it s going to mandate sex change operations. i would make up something that coul
that provision was introduced into the health care debate by republicans including senator johnny isaacson of georgia. and having a living will where you say how it is you d like decisions to be handled at the end of your life, where you make your own decisions about that ahead of time, that is something the federal government has formally encouraged by legislation for at least 20 years. without controversy. but politically the facts don t really matter right? not if they can be distorted to scare people particularly if they can be distorted to scare old people. it s becoming clear now that there is a connection between the two big things we have observed recently about the health care fight. on the one hand are these crazy, disprovable, but nevertheless endlessly stoked conspiracy theories that health care reform is communism, a secret plot to kill your grandpa, it s a government takeover, it s something called obama-care. it s going to mandate abortions. it s going to manda
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