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People and they would control that power. we changed that with the 17th amendment and one of the reasons i am a supporter of balanced budget with a gap, because it guarantees limited government and guarantee states and people being more free. >> mike: we are down to final two minutes. i will turn to -- >> senator president obamas refusal of defining the marriage act. constitutionally why is the president wrong? >> first of all the president has the obligation to defend the laws of our country. t...

We changed that with the 17th amendment and one of the reasons i am a supporter of balanced budget with a gap, because it guarantees limited government and guarantee states and people being more free. >> mike: we are down to final two minutes. i will turn to -- >> senator president obamas refusal of defining the marriage act. constitutionally why is the president wrong? >> first of all the president has the obligation to defend the laws of our country. this bill was passed and stands up for an i...

We changed that with the 17th amendment and one of the reasons i am a supporter of balanced budget with a gap, because it guarantees limited government and guarantee states and people being more free. >> mike: we are down to final two minutes. i will turn to -- >> senator president obamas refusal of defining the marriage act. constitutionally why is the president wrong? >> first of all the president has the obligation to defend the laws of our country. this bill was passed and stands up for an i...

Control to be able to keep that power so we change that with the 17th amendment. the one reason youll a strong supporter of the balanced budget amendment. spending 18% of gdp. it will guarantee limited government and guarantee sates and people being more free. >> mike: were down to the final two minutes and have to keep it exactly that. ill turn to-- >> senator, president obamas refused to defend the federal defense and marriage act signed into law my bill clinton. constitution constitutionally,...

People and they would control that power. we changed that with the 17th amendment and one of the reasons i am a supporter of balanced budget with a gap, because it guarantees limited government and guarantee states and people being more free. >> mike: we are down to final two minutes. i will turn to -- >> senator president obamas refusal of defining the marriage act. constitutionally why is the president wrong? >> first of all the president has the obligation to defend the laws of our country. t...

>> cant president obama learn from some of his own democratic counter parts even governor cuomo who has to balance his own budget. they have to balance their own budget or they have to declare bankruptcy. >> part of the problem states are in is because they are living under so many federal mandates. this is the result of this top down government. the federal government makes decisions that effect the states but the federal government doesnt worry about how the states are going to pay for it. one...

Amendment? just explain that to us. >> in the original constitution states did have a formal role in checking federal power. its when they selected senators that were selected by state legislators and with enactment of the 17th amendment that ended that former role and federal power has no formal constraint on it. you have to rely entirely on the courts and they havent really done a very good job in doing that. >> as i understand it, the way your repeal amendment would work is if two-thirds of s...

Separation of church and state -- to clarify, youre telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the first amendment? >> the government shall make no establishment of -- >> thats in the first amendment. >> now, perhaps ms. odonnell was simply trying to say the literal phrase separation of church and phrase is not in the first amendment. thats true. heres a relevant passage. congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise there...

Hear other extreme ideas from candidates when im out there. >> sure. >> like we should have an up or down vote on every rule or regulation proposed by any agency or repeal the 17th amendment. are these kinds of notions productive? >> the pendulum swings, and out there in the electorate, when people get angry, people express ang anger, and you get people, a lot of times in the mid terms, not normally involved in the process, and its a melting pot. i mean, come on. >> okay. >> people in america ca...

Say we want to have second-amendment remedies if you dont like -- people like bachmann who wants joe mccarthy tactics. a lot of really crazy screw ball calls -- not screw balls as people but their ideas are. why doesnt your party go after the screw balls and say the republicans are in bed with these nuts? >> that was the point of -- they could have executed that -- i dont think you get more unpopular in privatizing social security and medicare. so -- they have -- >> you cant defend your screw ba...