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Compared to what? and a reasonable person would say, what would spending and taxes had been if the president had not acted. most will say that we will not continue to spend in iraq and afghanistan what we will have spend in the last few years. >> maybe $850 billion is too much, but zero is too little. >> its a political document, right? and the president is using accounting fudge and all presidents have done that, it gets back to the point, its not really a serious fiscal document. its a campaig...

Interesting trek on capitol hill. bring in the panel. steve hayes for weekly standard. mara liasson and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. you heard republicans saying this isnt a budget. its campaign document. >> i think theyre right. >> bret: what about what the white house says about the budget? >> this is an expression of the presidents priorities. he has made calculated bet that the big concern for a full year over the deficit dissipated and people are more interested in fairness and...

Correspondent of politico, hes got a look at the playbook. >> for mika, happy valentines day. >> thank you, mike. >> lets talk about the budget, mike, that mika has fallen in love with. president obama unveiling a $3.8 trillion spending plan, $4 trillion in deficit cuts over the next ten years, most coming by way of new tax revenue and savings from the wars in iraq and savings. that includes $350 billion for job creation, $476 for upgrade of the nations transportation system. 441 billion for r&d...

At this point. so well see how it turns out. the point is a big memorial coming to her hometown friday, or later this week presumably. that will be a huge, huge turnout. 20,000 fans maybe. >> the prudential center holds gon n prudential center holds and the battler hederal president obama introduced his plan for 2013 which is feres spending on jobs and transportation and new taxes on the rich. republicans called it nothing more than a campaign document, and theyre preparing their own alternative...

>> this is what you expect. its all a campaign document and anybody who takes it seriously, except as a campaign document, is wasting their time. >> lets listen to what jeff sessions had to say about some of the things in the presidents budget. >> we are on a debt course that is going to bankrupt this country. everyone is telling us that, republicans and democrats and economyists and the presidents budget may cut a bit here but increases otherwise. he will announce new policemrog for students th...

And coal companies and impose a big tax on big banks to recoup costs from the bailout. this is fair. this is common sense. but the gop must not have seen the polling on this one. >> today president obama released a budget that isnt really a budget at all. its a campaign document. so this is a charade. a charade. >> a charade? good luck with that argument. joining me now is congressman chris van holland, democrat from maryland. governor ed rendell, nbc news political analyst and former dnc chairm...

Spending. its na gimmick, it will be a difference in priorities. what are the priorities and republicans will have to continue to fund those tax breaks for millionaires and oil companies. >> and now the buffett rule is front and center and the republican has to respond. >> the gop has to worry about what happened last summer and last december. the democrats in the senate are not going to do a budget. the congress is supposed to produce a blue print, the house will do it and the senate wont. we h...

Deficit. so how -- and this is over the next decade, of course. how, on the one hand, they argue about the deficit and the debt and on the other hand argue about not receiving over the next $5.4 trillion while protecting millionaires? >> well, youre absolutely right, reverend sharpton. although that figure, i think, is for the entire bush tax cuts expiring, including the middle class. but regardless, what the president has done here, they -- the republicans can talk about it being a campaign doc...

Agreed to as the debt deal in august. in any case. of the $3 trillion, half is in spending cuts. half in tax increases on the wealthy. if that sounds familiar, the fact is that the plan is basically what they offered last september. roundly rejected by the house and the senate. that raises a question is this really a serious plan to govern the country and reduce the deficit in 2012, this year, or a political document, a campaign document to get the president re-elected? >> thinking of campaign a...

Makes you think he still kind of doesnt get it. david gergen says to him -- david plouffe from the white house says you have no core. what do you think about those critiqu critiques? at first he laughed and said i dont read them. then he says i wrote a book in 2010, all my beliefs are there. no, its not a campaign document, what do you really think? >> well, he lives on the edge drinking yoohoo, that tells you a lot about him too. how concerned is mitt romney do you suspect about newt gingrich? ...