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Instructive, maybe it would be a good idea to cut everybody across the board? whether in washington, take a number, 10%, picking a choosing is what pits everybody against everybody everyone has a special program. >> theres a point to that. some have seen huge spending increases. in wisconsin across the board the public employs have not been contributing anything to pension or health care. everybody else in wisconsin is doing that. across the board isnt that fair. here in washington, we are looki...

Are protests sort of an instructive, maybe it would be a good idea to cut everybody across the board? whether in washington, take a number, 10%, picking a choosing is what pits everybody against everybody everyone has a special program. >> theres a point to that. some have seen huge spending increases. in wisconsin across the board the public employs have not been contributing anything to pension or health care. everybody else in wisconsin is doing that. across the board isnt that fair. here in ...

Inat least, 53% in favor in 2009, 40% only in favor of doing that now. and then defense, take a look at where americans stood on that issue, 40% wanted to increase it in 2009, 31% now. finally unemployment aid, there you see increase in favor of it, 44% in 2009, only 27% in favor of it in 2011. so, mr. dougherty, what do you think of all those figures? >> well, i think there is a change in the publics views of federal spending. theres no doubt about that. since 2009 quite a significant change. b...

41%. and, by the way, obama has even wider advantages over sarah palin, newt gingrich and jeb bush and it is too early, though, to see where the numbers will go. >> early but everybody is watching. thank you very much and for fill disclosure now, mike huckabee, newt gingrich, sarah palin and rick santorum are paid fox news contributors. . and it is all badge you can ta in washington, the president giving a preview of his spending plan for 2012 in his weekly address saying hes calling for difficu...

Successes now, i sid this in the state of the union, congress has started to move the legislation and then you fight over whats moving. then you have a consistent theme and some controversy, which deepz it alive. a little harder for him now because he has to position against republicans. thats what you can expect now. >> if you were inside the white house, what would you say this president needed to do to pick up a small to moderate win, to keep the momentum going. >> id try to pick a fight over...

Petroleum institutes position, which is, we have to continue offshore drilling, we just have to have safeguards in place. again, another reason why mr. browns argument just makes no sense. now, lets go from domestic brownies to foreign brownies and mikas going to read t"the wall street journal". an election fought on fairness in which the conservatives have guaranteed spending increases on health care and pensions by linking them to the growth and earnings rather than prices is not likely to del...

Recommendations for next year, 2011, after seeing two years of huge spending increases and massive decifit increases. so you ask the question, what do you think of the commission, well, its going to come an awfully late way into the future, way after the problem is started. martha: they seem to get more time to get things done in washington than most of us get in the business world. thank you very much, stuart varney. bill: thank you very much, this is my super bowl winning. bill: there you ar...

You just heard from the white house. now lets get perspective from the other side, the other end of pennsylvania avenue. gentlemen, good morning. lets start with the spending bill you are going to have to vote on today. i will start with the democrats since you are in charge up there. these cabinet agencies some of them are getting 9% and 10%, and some are getting 12% spending increases. everybody out there watching this morning, i doubt we can find somebody saying yes, the family budget will gr...

The one-time deputy director of the fbi, fired friday, had launched a criminal investigation into sessions. at the urging of democrat senators, including al franken, who later resigned over sexual harassment allegations. congress delivers a $1.3 trillion budget deal tonight. chocked full of spending increases and only a fraction of the money the president said he wanted for a wall. reportedly over enough to cover 33 miles of new construction along the southern border. is the white house going to...

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