entitlements. there s not going to be a deal on that ground. but you have people like tom coburn, republican senator from oklahoma who was on the simpson-bowles commission, voted in favor of it, took on grover norquist for his no tax lunacy. if that were the official republican position that we do need to have some rev neuroon on the table and spending, i think you would see a deal with obama. that s number one. on education, you have some people in the party, but during the primaries, they were calling for shutting down the department of education. yet you have jeb bush, the former governor of florida who if you listen to his education policy, teacher reform, more charters, more school choice, common core standards, there s a lot of overlap with president obama, and he said so himself. we know romney came out with his version of drill baby drill basically.
if there s no center right, there s not going to be a deal. let s say debt deficits and entitlements. there s not going to be a deal on that ground. but you have people like tom coburn, republican senator from oklahoma who was on the simpson-bowles commission, voted in favor of it, took on grover norquist for his no tax lunacy. if that were the official republican position that we do need to have some rev neuroon t on the table and spending, i think you would see a deal with obama. that s number one. on education, you have some people in the party, but during the primaries, they were calling for shutting down the department of education. yet you have jeb bush, the former governor of florida who if you listen to his education policy, teacher reform, more charters, more school choice, common core standards, there s a lot of overlap with president obama, and he said so himself.