get taxed more and then nobody ever talks about all the waste. nobody ever talks about all the spending. so it s disingenuous to a certain point of view to say let s tax everyone, but let s not talk about the whole other side of the problem which is waste. steve: right. brian: let s do the play by play leading up to the last 32 days and the give and take is fascinating. one thing charles krauthammer made clear, republicans have more leverage than they re playing and don t seem to be playing the right hand. listen. any republican who buys this is a fool. the republicans have stood for one thing consistently. it s held them together ideal lodgely and electorally. they are the low tax parties. the other guys want to tax to match their wreckless spending. if they give it up now in return for nothing, obama wins and he wins big. now, i understand why they re going to do this. they imagine that republicans
we are in a country trying to create innovate i ways to get the public addicted to the government teeth so the government can expand. kimberly: do nothing and get somethg ee entitled. eric: really, really big bob: you ought to be [ overtalk ] bob: you are against social security and medicare. eric: i m saying it s getting bigger and bigger. kim, isn t the ultimate test this was a carter, reagan idea. are you better off than you were three or four years ago? kimberly: it s simple. when you look at it right now we are getting choked to death by overregulation, reckless spending. i feel like somebody should be in jail for this it s so egregious. it has a direct impact on the economy. these numbers are real. they re not in dispute. you have can t blame it all on who came before or on congress, because there is someone who said we should hold him responsible.
we are in a country trying to create innovate i ways to get the public addicted to the government teeth so the government can expand. kimberly: do nothing and get something and feel entitled. eric: really, really big bob: you ought to be [ overtalk ] bob: you are against social security and medicare. eric: i m saying it s getting bigger and bigger. kim, isn t the ultimate test this was a carter, reagan idea. are you better off than you were three or four years ago? kimberly: it s simple. when you look at it right now we are getting choked to death by overregulation, reckless spending. i feel like somebody should be in jail for this it s so egregious. it has a direct impact on the economy. these numbers are real. they re not in dispute. you have can t blame it all on who came before or on congress, because there is someone who said we should hold him responsible.
he is separating himself already from the pack while the pack is in iowa. what do his campaign people say about why this was the best strategy for him? reporter: you know, his campaign, i have to tell you this is going to be interesting if we see more of this in the days to come is very tight-lipped. they ve been very tight-lipped about what is going on here in south carolina. they were confirming earlier in the week that this is indeed going to be his presidential announcement. but in terms of strategy, really you can just look at what s happening. the ames, iowa, straw poll is obviously the center of the political universe this weekend. all of the republican contenders except for rick perry is there. and governor perry did not have the organization on the ground to compete in iowa for this ames straw poll, which is nonbinding, really a beauty pageant for gop contenders. the perry people thought, what s a good way to steal the thunder of this event happening in iowa? l
of the situation of this country? there are questions about what their rationale was. i want to ask you about s&p. one thing you said as a presidential candidate and have been saying for a long time, is that lawmakers were spending like duncan sailors in this found for years, and we re not all paying the price. but this was the reaction in part from house speaker boehner. i ll put it up on the screen. he talked about deck raids of reckless spending cannot be reversed immediately, especially when the democrats who run washington remain unwilling to make the tough choices required to put america on solid ground. the administration and democrats in congress had sought an increase in the debt limit without spending cuts for reforms. republicans made clear to the american people would not tolerate that and fought for the largest spending cut possible. do you not see the downgrade as something akin to war that should galvanize political leadership on both sides of the aisle rather than pol