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Zeal for deficits coming from? maybe you have been preaching it but your colleagues with the emergency measures and spending, never said a thing about it. guest: no, no, no, actually, i don t think that s accurate, there are a number of us who have been deeply concerned. about exploding deficits. all the independent experts, economists, business people, acknowledge that it was important to rescue the economy and move forward but we have been working for years to try and deal with requirements to pay-as-you-go, and before president bush took office we had three consecutive years of surpluses. neil: but, congressman, i have no horse in this race but you also recall that we had a stock market bubble being pierced and internet implosion, a recession, and i think ....
Barack obama s leadership. such that we now have these exploding deficits, $900 billion a year, each of the next ten years and now we have this international debt crisis as well and mention get it and i think americans get it in a way perhaps they didn t in 1994. and i think that is one of the central differences you can certainly feel out there, right now. what about social security? are you willing to encourage your members to go after make cuts in social security, make cuts in the defense budget, make cuts in medicare? is that what we will see. you know, i think what we have to do is look at every agency and program, and do the oversight that congress has not done to find efficiencies, we have to keep our commitments to older americans, that is clear what do you mean by that? do you mean that you would not consider cutting social security? look, there s a lot we can cut before we get to social security, how about not raiding the social security funds to begin with. i me ....
Right now, all the studies show the republican plan they proposed in the last few weeks will explode the deficit more than the plan that the democrats and president are offering. this will be one of the most interesting time closing part of the debate, which is the most fiscally irresponsible party in the last ten years of the americans have been the republican party. they are proposing the same thing they did before, got the exploding deficits in the last few years. the democrats have to do a better job making the case in the time weeks to have the election they want to have. eric: karen, that seems to be the opposite of what we re hearing. lo look, if democrats in party line vote voted in the healthcare reform bill. that angered a lot of people. tea party movement in the summer of 2009, president obama and the leadership of the democratic party made fun of, they mocked them. if you want to talk about the anger and the government, big government, expanding government, it s also th ....
Democratic party, had said we learned our lesson from scott brown in massachusetts, and thankfully we learned it early in the year, he said we re going to be promotes democrats as the party of results and gop as obstructionist. does that message work? no, it doesn t, because look at the results. they passed a stimulus bill that didn t work, they passed in the house a cap and trade centering tax that energy tax that the american people didn t like, they passed a health care bill that s gotten less popular it was unpopular when it was passed and less popular today, we re in the midst of exploding deficits. those are not exactly great results to sell. and again, selling people on the basis of results says i m in charge and right now the american people are frustrated most with people who are in charge, in charge of the united states government, and those are democrats. jane yain that is karl s view. tim kaine would say at least we ve got something to show for all our work. karl, tha ....