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We havent operated this way in probably a decade. but i think its encouraging, so you can air out these issues and people can have a cans to speak on them and to represent their constituents in the debate. >> so you give him credit for this more open process. i guess that raises the question, why didnt speaker pelosi have such a process? >> i dont know. but the point is, this is where we are now. and the fact of the matter is, this is a way of appropriations. this was shut down -- you know -- i ...

H.e.a.p., in 08, we were spending about $2.5 billion. the obama administration with energy prices going up, they move had money to $5.1 billion. when the prices stabilized and stayed consistent, thats why theyre bringing it back down. so people are saying youre cutting money for the poor. no, it was dramatically increased expecting energy prices going up but it didnt happen. >> i want to shift subjects. last week we rightfully so spent most of our time on the political unrest in egypt. so we did...

Our budget because it hasnt been written yet. everyone wants to get into what is our budget going to do and how it will work, we dont have a baseline on which to write it. how many times are you going to ask me this? we havent even written our budget yet. >> why havent the republicans in the house written their budget? they dont know what they can write a budget that will get 218 votes for. they dont know the political center weight is on the budget. you talked about what the president introduce...

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...

Good for america to others in the world as well as to americans. ronald reagan was the -- was the ultimate lobbyist. the great communicator. cpac, the conservative political activist conference you were at this weekend had a conference last night. we want to put up the results: ron paul got 30%, mitt romney was 23%. and way back in last place was haley barbour at 1%. i want to get your reaction to that and also as you look for lack of a better term we would call the frontrunners at this point. r...

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...

Good for america to others in the world as well as to americans. ronald reagan was the -- was the ultimate lobbyist. the great communicator. cpac, the conservative political activist conference you were at this weekend had a conference last night. we want to put up the results: ron paul got 30%, mitt romney was 23%. and way back in last place was haley barbour at 1%. i want to get your reaction to that and also as you look for lack of a better term we would call the frontrunners at this point. r...

With to get president obama out of office. joining us is former advisor to bill clinton and fox news contributor dick morris. good morning to you, dick. >> good morning. >> what do you make of that poll where republicans, majority of republicans say we dont care if we agree with them ideologically on everything, we want somebody who can beat him? >> well, i think that thats exactly where the republican vote is at. my wife and i have a book coming out on march 1st called "revolt" and in it, we go...

>> thanks, jaqui. weve been looking ahead today to the 2012 presidential race. the president and the contenders. so where do we stand now? cnns senior political analyst gloria borger joins me now from washington. gloria, we are focusing on the contenders for 2012 so what are we seeing in the early polling? >> well, were seeing there a lot of contenders and that republican voters really are just judging by kind of name identification. lets take a look at our poll. we asked republicans only, who...

All ive said is im not running in 2012. i will once again say that im not going to be a candidate in 2012. >> ah, but dont mind that. the draft jeb movement is still going strong. this week "the national review" joins the chorus with the eight reasons its a mistake for bush to wait out the cycle according to the magazine. jim garrity is a columnist for "the national review" online and jeb bush is on the cover of the current issue. all right, youve got your eight reasons. lets start with number o...