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Focus on the new budget, the 2012 budget that is getting everyones attention. and let the last few months this of one ride out, move on to more important battles, dont get obsessed over this. what do you say? >> look, you never get a second chance at a first impression. as i said at the rally today, neil, this is just a small down payment on fiscal discipline but it will be a promise kept. republicans said that we would reduce spending in this fiscal year to below prebailout, prestimulus levels....

Would leave in place current and far higher spending levels, 24% higher, in fact. not including the $8 00 billion stimulus. that is much different from what the republicans are proposing. >> we said all along what we aim to do bring discretionary levels down to prebail-out, prestimulus levels. >> republicans wont know until they get visual number from the congressional budget office how much they would have to cut to get to 2008 levels which brought question from democrats. whether it doesnt hav...

>> tea party help republicans win the house majority next year and they will get the spotlight tonight. no division among republicans what they want is spending discipline. and a new president in 2012. bret? >> bret: carl cameron live at statuary hall where he will be later as well. thanks. house republicans beat republican to the much today when it comes to spending cut. chief washington correspondent jim angle reports they set the bar very high. >> before the president delivers his message to ...

75% debt reduction coming from spending and 25% from tax hikes. whats your thinking? >> the fact of the matter is this administration and this congress have put in place nearly $1.3 trillion in the past two budget cycles of new spending, deficit spending. we ought to get to prebailout, prestimulus levels immediately. if we do that, we inessence over a very short period of time get to the trajectory that if we decrease spending in the departments, on one penny in a dollar saved over a period of t...