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I think they will be checking one another and saying we can t afford to do this. there will be no earmarks from republicans on the house side. he laid down the law. i don t expect they will. mya. in a couple of minutes that we have left. what kind of speaker do you expect john boehner to be. so far, he has a way with words. he speaks plainly and he is very emotional sometimes, and i think he s going to be someone who challenges the president in very vocal ways. he s going to be a speaker that really is able to discipline his troop in the house and the way that nancy pelosi was. he s coming in with the wind in his back of a strong. i suspect he will be strong. charles what kind of a speaker to coyou expect boehner to be and how do you ....
the idea of changing the way we do things in washington is why we won. we are bound and determined to change things in the future. that is rob bishop of utah. he is talking about ending the practice of asking for earmarkings. steve hayes from the weekly standard. leiah are henderson from the washington post and syndicated columnist charles crawhammer. steve when the republicans take control of the house. really after all of this waiting it is about to happen. what do you expect to be in the top of the agenda and what will be in the top? i think they will do a lot of process things and make a big deal about ending earmarks ....
incoming speaker and his colleagues plan to do something about the anger. the government in washington is not lining and doesn t get it and frankly the american people think that washington doesn t really care. i was elected with a mandate to change the status quo. we have to change the way we do business in washington d.c.. republicans will put everything up in the web and give people three days to scour through bills and check all of thes in the sections and see if what the legislators say in the bill is actually in the bill. it is about time that congress entered the digital age. everyone else has on line and acessible and congress for years has refused to let people see what they are doing. some democrats agree. the public certainly should have a minimum of three days to read a bill whether it is ....
And posting bills on line and people get to see them on line. i think they are right to do it. part of the message is the way washington does business and the way the process works is broken and needs to be fixed. i would say to the extent that they focus on process fine. it is secondary. ultimately what they will judged on two or four or eight years is what happens and what they do. are they able to reform the government and make it more responsible and cut spending the way voters want them to do. i think that is the way they will be measured particularly in the house and cutting federal spending. how aggressive do you expect them to be? earmarks and that is a easy place to start. that is one percent of the federal budget and they like to talk about them around campaign time. they have to look at 60 ....
Gingrich revolution in 94. republicans were so heady and thought you had governs from congress. they had control of the house and senate . the president faced them down and won reelection and drove them out of town. republicans have to control of control of one house, all they can do is containment. if the republicans propose serious entitlement reform they will get crushed it will not be enacted. it will be dema god gogged by the democrats. it will have to be behind closed doors the way the tax cut deal was done where the republicans and democrats agree they will take equal hits. if you don t do entitlement reform what is next. discretional spending. republicans have to do it in a process way. we want to restore the budget to the 2008 level you are not ....