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Need to carefully examine and we need to come up with a right, free market, free enterprise-based solution that looks at the cost analysis of health care and not just a simple government expansion. let me get to more of the specifics you just mentioned but i want to first to do in the context of the tone of what s about to happen. during your campaign, sir, you were very aggressive in saying you wanted to come to washington fight the liberals and what you believed was a socialist administration. this is you on one radio talk show. i believe it is a radio talk show during the campaign. listen to this. what they need to understand now is that i m even more committed, even more focused on making sure that this liberal progressive socialist agenda, this left wing, vile, vicious, despicable machine that is out there is soundly brought to its knees. that is you, congressman west, just a few days after the election, november 11th. i said it was during the campaign, it was just after the ....
Congresswoman-to be bass, is she part of the vile liberal progressive socialist agenda? i will tell you this. if you look at the tenets of socialism, it is nationalize in production. automobile, finance industry, health care if cap-and-trade had gone through the energy sector. we see create and expansion of a entitlement class of a welfare state. if you look at what happened when i went through my campaign, the fact that people put my social security number out in the public domain in a mailer. when you look at i was supposedly the first black member of an all-white motorcycle gang and supposedly ran prostitution, this is a despicable machine that came after me. mr. west, we don t know each other. i did introduce myself to you during freshman orientation but i would hope and i want to give you the benefit of the doubt that you would certainly take the time to know the people on the other side of ....
The aisle before you come to conclusions. i know absolutely nothing about you. if the voters told us anything, they want us to work together. that s why what happened in the lame duck session frankly was applaud, because work got done. i know on january 5th when i raise my hand to be sworn in to the 112th congress, i m going to reach across the aisle to you and try to work with you. let me see if i can find some areas of common ground right here. one big decision you will face heading forward is there was a continuing resolution that s washington speak for those of you at home but it kept the government running until march. then the congress will have to pass a new plan to keep the government running and as part of that the congress is likely to be asked to raise the dead ceiling in this country. congressman west, are you prepared to say i don t like this, i don t want this to happen but i will give you another six or nine months, mr. president, and my new speaker around raise th ....
So allan west is one to watch in the new congress. jon: then there s mike kelly out of pennsylvania who seems to be coming in, charging hard. yeah, mike kelly beat kathy doubtcamper from pennsylvania, he is a conservative, he is one that democrats are targeting to beat in two years, mike kelly has indicated he s not very impressed with what he s seen in washington. he s also indicated he is not going to vote to raise the debt limit, and that s very interesting, because when whoever is the majority party is the one that the joan us is on as far as raising the debt limit. when democrats raise the debt limit, republicans voted against it, so if republicans, a lot of republicans follow mike kelly s lead, that s going to be tough for john boehner to get the votes to raise the debt limit. as he said, they ve got to deal with it as adults and what they re going to have to do is get concessions from the white house but they re going to have to ultimately raise the debt limit. jon: in fairnes ....
Demand that we end the tax breaks or rather, that we continue the tax breaks for the highest 1% income earners in our country. that was one of the contributing factors. so i will tell you that i cannot even imagine agreeing to shut down the government which is what it means. if we refuse to take that vote, it means we shut down the government. i think that would be irresponsible one thing congressman west is on-board with, there is $45 million in unspent stimulus money. many republicans say put back in the treasury as a down payment. congressman west, am i right about that? you re absolutely right. first of all, i don t know that. if there is $45 billion of unspent economic stimulus money i frankly want that money to stimulate the economy. now i do agree that the debt is absolutely important and i think we have to look for ways to cut. absolutely. and so that s where i would agree with congressman-elect. congressman west, what specifically give me two or three examples of w ....