democratic moans and groans about it. this is a big win for republicans because now, this $2 billion in spending cuts is the status quo. this is what people will be expecting. the argument shifts because i think the democrats will have to say, no, that was too much. what is going to happen, people are going to see with the continuing resolution, all the talk of the shut down of the government that there were big cuts in discretionary spending and the world didn t end. i think for all the reasons that amy and charles mentioned the gao report helps them make that case. in the short term political case for the republicans but i think a strategic mistake in the bigger picture. republicans are talking about tom coburn was saying, this shows we re incompetent in washington and talking about the need for common sense reform of the federal bureaucracy. this report is totally
when he was county executive in milwaukee made some of the cuts and he was cuigd of gutting the parks and ruining milwaukee quality of lie. he understands, he has been through the fights before. that is why i don t expect them to go. brett: who wins? i think he wins. i think what happened today in kenosha could be the first sign of cracks among the democrats. i think winning the legislative fight doesn t mean he wins the battle and i don t know. the only thing i m sure of, there is not going to be compromise. i think the governor wins. brett: next up the gao report about waste and how it figures into talks about spending cuts. if those talks fail in the next two weeks and the government does shut down, who would get the most blame. vote on our poll, results after
cuts from the baseline. we have a hugely inflated baseline because of the mega spending by the obama administration. secondly, cuts would improve efficiency and now we have a documentation of that. brett: it also gives perspective in this gao report that hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars, billions with a b . we re talking about $61 billion republicans want to cut from the continuing resolution. it gives you a perspective of what you are looking at here? i think it changes the whole dynamic of the debate over continuing resolutions that are going to happen this week and, of course, again in two weeks. we re not going to resolve the budget issue for fiscal year 2011 march 18th here here. i want to say republicans won the report before it appeared. they boxed the democrats in the corner.
brett: thanks. duplication, redundancy, those are the types of words being used vast sums of your money allegedly being wasted by folks here in washington. carl cameron looks at a new report from the government accountability office. the report identified hundreds of redundant programs wasting hundreds of billions of tax dollars. what it tells you we are incompetent. anybody that reads the report that congress is functioning effectively, they are living on mars. oklahoma republican senator tom coburn pushed for the study that found that agencies many agencies, there exist 100 dupe la active programs for new entrepreneurship sand 35 overlapping infrastructure programs. 82 redundant programs to improve
budget. it goes two weeks so it delays just a bit. the senate, we re told, is going to vote on this tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. from sources up on capitol hill, in the meantime, the government accountability office put out a report today with interesting facts. among them government waste, 18 programs, nutrition assistance, $62.5 billion in 2008 and 11 have never been reviewed. homeland security, more efficient baggage screening systems could be $470 million in savings over five years. they found 100 duplicative programs, basically programs being done twice. threw see them and 35 other programs in highway infrastructure. gao report. charles, let s start with the gao report. i would say if you are republican, its timely report. you are in a fight over real cuts and spokesman, everyone