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You re starting to see a situation where he s a little bit more reluctant to speak his mind because he s on a national platform now. so, you know, i don t know. i mean someone has to have the fortitude. what about christie, someone who speaks his mind. chris christie speaks his mind and he s rewarded in blue state by voters. chris christie had a poll out a new poll out yesterday, i think the guy is like plus 20. i ve already got his slogan for 2016. what is it? christie for president. hey, numbnuts i m talking to you. that works. it s pretty early, 7:06. okay. close encounters of the worst kind by jeff greenfield. why the country doesn t need a nailbiter in 2012. judging by the rhetoric coming from the campaigns this election pits a party that will dismantle the social safety net and puts the rights of women, gays and ....
for republicans to step up with this debt commission and tackle middle class entitlements, tackle runaway spending, whether in the pentagon or domestic. we have to look at everything, don t we? absolutely . if we don t do this now there was a congressman who said power is being lent. we re on probation. i write in the book about why we need to tackle medicare reform right now. there was a bipartisan medicare commission he that came up with good ideas in the 90s, premium support, slow down the growth. i argued, also, we fleed to make structural changes. we need to cut nondefense discretionary spending, but the reforms we always talk about, now is the time for the republican party to lead. we can t be the party of no. we have to go to the president and say here are our ideas, go to the senate, go to the house democrats and say here are our ....
Conservative side of his own party? of course. because many would say, and have said, that why do anything president obama wants. somebody gives him a victory, therefore, we re the party of no. so i think some of us know we re not the party of no. we must never be the party of no. are you win or losing that side? oh, i think that remains to be seen. but at the same time, i think a good number of people understand what i m saying. probably agree, sometimes overtly, maybe more often covertly. they understand eventually, the american people, angry as they are with the democrats, with the tsunami that came in the election, are finally going to say to republicans, okay, now what are you guys going to do? what, in fact, is your program? our program is to stop obama, some would say. it s to defeat obama. it s a two-stage process. you defeat the democrats first ....
Point is whether or not they have learned their lesson. they were in charge until 2006, but there are a lot of republicans who felt they lost their way, that they were just as involved in big government and big spending as the democrats were and one of the points they re trying to make here look, we get it and we learned our lessons. the republicans are pursuing an 80-20 strategy. 80% of focus on bashing the democrats, hitting the democrats record. 20% and presenting an affirmative message. he think that the fact that this exists more than what s in it is the real key. this gives them the 20% so when democrats say they re the party of no. they can say no, we re not. read this. read the 45 pages, plus pictures. who else do you have on, chris. well, a great show. we ll have exclusive interviews not only with john boehner, but kevin mccarthy, the congressman from california, one of the prime authors of this and an ....
Trust you that s why we ve outlined clearly in our pledge what we would and would not do. i think when it comes to spending we ve been very specific about common sense steps we can do. reporter: give me one example. how about the unspent stimulus money? let s stop it. let s stop it and bring it back. erick, congressman hayworth, have they been really specific? what they ve attempted to do here, and understand any time a proposal is offered in the hot house of american politics 40 days before a midterm election, it will be open to predictable criticism. but i think here, in washington terms, paul and his friends talk about the party of no, n-o, i think house republicans are trying to say we re the party of no, k-n-o-w. we know the american people want change. we re listening to what they re saying. no document will be perfect. i think it s an important start, but again, if there is unanimity ....