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This deal is likely to be like the tax deal they passed during the lame duck session and like the last cr was. this is likely to be a deal that gets passed only because it gets sufficient votes from both republicans and democrats, the kind of bipartisan compromise that the president said he would put through on a range of issues as president. this is a challenge for john boehner more than anyone else, but its clear he knows from the comments he made today, he cant deliver what the tea party want...

Who better to address all this is congressman paul. its a pleasure. welcome to the glenn beck program. dow is down 228 points, president just borrowed $223 billion in the month of february. democrats in the senate are abandoning the president and their own leadership. who in the congress takes seriously the abyss that we are facing called bankruptcy, called $14 trillion in debt? >> i think there is probably about 12 of us that really care about it and cut the way we have to. we dont have any clo...

And today, the number two republican in the house, majority leader eric cantor shocked the world by admitting he has no idea how to solve the budget problem because he has no idea how a bill becomes law. >> on friday, we will bring to the floor the government prevention -- excuse me, prevention of government shut down act, and that will say to the american people the senates got to act prior to the expiration of cr. if it does not act, hr 1 becomes the law of the land. >> thats right. a republic...

In the coming weeks i expect you will see more and from our team laying out how big this problem is. >> greta: we only have a two week budget the continuing resolution. we are going back into this trying to figure out what to do for the rest of the year is the hold up? why cant we get a budget to carry us through the rest of year? >> understand how we got into this problem. last year democrats didnt pass a budget. they didnt do any appropriation bills to fun the government from last october to n...

It doesnt make sense. there is a strong growing majority in the congress that says enough is enough. we cant afford to continue to spend the way we are. weve talked about things like national -- or npr and amtrak, and national endowment of the arts. we need to get serious about making cuts and do it now. >> judge napolitano: your colleague, congressman west standing next to me that he will not vote to raise the national debt, no matter what promises the democrats make. he wont vote for continuin...

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Stop gas spending bill or allow the government to shut down. speaker boehner says he will not consider the former. >> our goal here is to cut spending. but im not going to move any kind of short term cr at current levels. when we say were going to cut spending, read my lips. were going to cut spending. >> uh-oh, read my lips. economists estimate 200,000 to 800,000 jobs could be lost, but boehner insists it will stimulate job growth. >> i dont want anyone to lose their job whether theyre a federa...

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Point, this year might not be seen as a bad thing. >> sean: dana? >> i dont think it is going to get to that point. i think they will get a short term cr and it will keep going. while i think that is true, you get up to the line and it begins messy. -- >> sean: if they just fund the bare necessities, i donty the american people would care. i think the american people would be like fine, these guys are fulfilling their promise. i think that would force america -- bernanke said the other day at so...