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Playbook. >> i understand your buddy mike allen sat down with paul ryan who says that he will do what the president didnt do in his budget and go after entitlement reform. lets listen. >> if you get your handle on this problem, start reforming entitlements in a smart, methodical way, it will be european austerity for everybody. >> are we talking about minor tinkering or more? >> i think its important you to entitlement reform, were looking at all the entitlement programs. were not taking any ent...

Threats to derail the funding resolutions, this is all an element of theater. like i said at the beginning, it would be political suicide for a democratic president to embrace social security reform heading into a re-election campaign. why would he ever do it. >> you dont think its going to happen then? you dont think medicare, medicaid or social security will ab dressed? >> do you? look at what happened in the health care bill when they cut off 500 million of fat from medicare and they got ruth...

>> reporter: it does address looming en titles social security and medicaid. >> one thing the budget doesnt do make tough choices. its hard to see if it makes any tough choices and more. >> reporter: but the president says she cutting things he cares deeply about. one is slashing home energy assistance to low income families which is due to be cut by $2.5 billion as energy prices have come down from their high. a proposal already criticized by many democrats in the northeast. today the white hou...

And so i was in the position of palin and huckabee. for the purposes of the straw poll i didnt get to speak. i enjoyed getting to talk to that audience. its audience of young people. i tried to vote for you today but they told us we couldnt vote anymore. >> chris: what about the frontrunners palin, rubbing be, romney, gingrich, what do you offer and they dont. >> good people, all friends of mine. i have a record of governor i have a record of cutting spending. i talked yesterday not only we ough...

Washington as we go forward and if he cuts the deficit in half, it is still larger than the deficit from the presidents before, why do we want to settle for that, we are still $1.5 trillion, right now, where we are going. we need to have a fundamental change and need to balance the budget and start paying done the debt if we really care about our childrens future and for a president not even to talk about, when you have democrats saying, hes not even talking about the entitlement program, where ...

>> reporter: it does address looming en titles social security and medicaid. >> one thing the budget doesnt do make tough choices. its hard to see if it makes any tough choices and more. >> reporter: but the president says she cutting things he cares deeply about. one is slashing home energy assistance to low income families which is due to be cut by $2.5 billion as energy prices have come down from their high. a proposal already criticized by many democrats in the northeast. today the white hou...

And so i was in the position of palin and huckabee. for the purposes of the straw poll i didnt get to speak. i enjoyed getting to talk to that audience. its audience of young people. i tried to vote for you today but they told us we couldnt vote anymore. >> chris: what about the frontrunners palin, rubbing be, romney, gingrich, what do you offer and they dont. >> good people, all friends of mine. i have a record of governor i have a record of cutting spending. i talked yesterday not only we ough...

And so i was in the position of sarah palin and huckabee and for the purposes of the straw poll i didnt get to speak and that is fine and they have to have rules and that is foon wiine with me enjoyed speaking to the audience and a lot of young people who came up to me and said, gee, i tried to vote for you today and they said we could not vote anymore. >> chris: what about the front-runners, as we said, sarah palin, huckabee, mitt romney, newt gingrich. what do you offer they dont. >> they are ...

Joe barden. this is your sixth district, right? >> its brisk out here. >> it is. first off, are you going to raise the debt limit? >> it depends on what spending reductions and budget reforms they put with it. if they do that, yes. if not, people like me are going to say no. >> what youre going to do is youre looking to give everyone at home an idea of what you think we should be cutting. unfortunately, have to cut. >> with the exception of some of the essential defense items, i dont think there...

On agreeing to raise taxes even temporarily and thats of course a nonstarter. on the democratic side you have partisan who is say, hey, why sit that were only going to cut, cut, cut, dont do it on the backs of the entitlement program, youve got to have some sacrifice in here from the wealthy. it is easy to have this conversation from 30,000 feet from a george schultz or an evan bayh, those folks who are saying these things, its a lot harder to actually do it. which is the whole point of the op-e...