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Plans, he says i havent got enough. i want to break your unions now. let me just make one last point here, pat, quick. that is, i think when he starts laying people off, hes going to get a reverberation from voters that say, hey, pal this is not what we elected you to do. you are -- you came as a problem solver. youre a problem creator. and i think his numbers are going to start to plummet and i think he will back off. >> heres the thing. let me ask you this, peter. everything you say about fact...

Poise and cool, i think he breaks them and i think he wins it and i think the democrats, some of them come back and give up collective bargaining. >> peter, you buy that? >> nope. >> how did i know you were going to say that? >> listen, you know, i dont know. pat may be right but i dont think so. this is a governor who campaigned on bringing people together. he had nice soft campaign commercials. he had the backing of the police union hop have now turned against him. he came right in office. he ...

>> peter, we have moments. the last word. >> quick point here. pats point is absolutely correct that the states, that these budgets its critical. i say take a page out of ronald reagans book in 1966 in california where he raised taxes by a billion dollars. went 3 to 5% on the state income tax, raises taxes on banks and corporations as well as doing cuts and balanced those budgets. >> going backing to reagans days as a democrat. peter, quite the card to play. >> pat buchanan, peter fenn, always a...

And people jamming into the capitol and people leaving the state and going to illinois, if he caves in, hes done. hes cooked. he has no future. because he cant go home again. so i think even with everything peter says, if he holds his ground, even if he falls in the polls, i think ultimately he wins this battle. does it mean hes got a great future? no, but if i were him, brother, they would carry me out feet first. >> thats a good point. right now pat raises a good point. he may have botched him...