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A fancy way to say it -- >> to the tune of $45 million a month foritous buy up our own treasury stocks. the argument is about $85 billion per year. when you put it thatn that context and understand that revenues have increased in the united states of america by 10% and spending by the for the government has increased 16% and we have a federal government spending 25s% of our gross domestic product, this is not a revenue issue, this is a spending issue. i think what we need to do is come up with t...

Being able to express a federal voice for us. they voted to have this president come back in. this isnt a big bait and switch. the president ran on this, campaigned on this, it was driven into the ground through social media, news coverage, newspaper headlines. what part of it is a bait and switch to republicans that they did not realize taxes were going to go up on the wealthiest of americans. it was going to have to be, you need to pay more because we have to get out of this spending issue we ...

Frum said, the conservative entertainment establishment. i mean, the conservative media establishment. they lied to the donors. they lied to the base. they lied to everybody about how romney was ahead and things were looking good in the senate. the pollsters -- everybody lied. and so guys keep writing checks and nifind out the reason they went to minnesota and pennsylvania is all these people were saying romney was going to win ohio, they knew he was not going to win ohio. they knew all along. >...

Some taxes on capital gains on dividends and small businesses are going up. you have got the spending issue. i think that will be a big brawl. im not so sure that will get settled anytime soon. jenna: quick final question. >> yeah. jenna: 2 dal billion spent on the election and we got pretty much exactly the same result. >> amazing. >> does that mean politics is a bad investment? >> i know a lot of conservatives saying that, there were major, super pacs spent hundreds of millions of dollars, you...

That -- they wanted an untapped, raise the limit. well, the tea party changed everything. >> and it all comes down to the spending issue, right, which was republicans forced the presidents hand on spending so politifax argues -- >> republicans. >> and even some democrats got on board with the tea party trying to limit some of the spending coming out of the obama administration. it is correct under president obama, spending has dropped to the lowest point in nearly 60 years and you can credit rep...

outfront tonight, two heroes on the prowl. ♪ i need a hero ♪ im holding out for a hero until the end of the night ♪ ♪ hes gotta be strong and hes gotta be fast ♪ >> yes, bonnie tyler, holding out for a hero. and yes, we think we found them. first stop, senate majority leader harry reid. today in an interview with "politico" he said the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts set to begin on january 2nd should go ahead as is. come hell or high water. i am not going to back of...

outfront tonight, two heroes on the prowl. ♪ i need a hero ♪ hes gotta be strong and hes gotta be fast ♪ >> yes, bonnie tyler, holding out for a hero. and yes, we think we found them. first stop, senate majority leader harry reid. today in an interview with "politico" he said the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts set to begin on january 2nd should go as is. i am not going to back off the sequestration. thats the law we passed. we did it because it wouldnt make things easy ...

report on this. on an amazing custody battle. an outfront investigation. lets go "outfront." outfront tonight, two heroes on the prowl. ♪ i need a hero ♪ hes gotta be strong and hes gotta be fast ♪ >> yes, bonnie tyler, holding out for a hero. and yes, we think we found them. first stop, senate majority leader harry reid. today in an interview with "politico" he said the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts set to begin on january 2nd should go as is. i am not going to back...

The progress continues... but that doesnt mean our job is done. were still committed to seeing this through. bill: here we go again, america. there is a dire warning out there from the congressional budget office, thats the cbo, that the u.s. will likely dip into another recession early next year if nothing is done on the taxing issue and the spending issue. republican senator john thune of south dakota is chairman of the senate republican conference. senator, good morning to you. >> good mornin...

Also if you look at the spending issue, senator santorum voted for the bridge to no, no where. he defended ear marks. he is spending which is the number one issue, he has been a big spender in washington, d.c. that is not what the american people are lookingor. they want someone who is a fiscal conservative. im a tax lawyer who has gone to washington to fight the out of control spending. my record is one of being a fiscal conservative as opposed to -- and im not trashing the candidates. it is ju...