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Tax revenue is 18 percent so he is trying to institutionalize a permanent deficit. he talks about doing a balanced budget amendment and talks about tax reform but it is not a strock part of the platform. >>neil: huntsman? >>guest: he gets an incomplete. very good on taxes. he has a lot of good ideas about lowering the tax rate and getting rid of capital gains but no spending program at all so he gets an incomplete and i think he doesnt want to talk about spending because his record in utah was v...

Institutions we conservatives believe. we believe that fannie and freddie started a fire that almost took down our entire kpli economy. we conservatives believe that. >> i dont disagree with that, by the way. >> we conservatives believe it, but newt doesnt. and why doesnt newt? because he was getting paid $1.6 million. and theres all of these -- he calls other people socialists, the cbo, for instance, a socialistic institution and yet he supported a $7 trillion medicare part d benefit, which was...

inclusion of fema funding. additional fema funding in the short term resolution. what is happening right now, john, is there is going to be a series of two votes, actually. one thing were looking at has to do with a clean or simple measure funding fema. this is what everyone was looking for, fwunding fema as well as not shutting down the government. and did strips away all the obstacles that had really been holding up the agreement to this point. the second measure that they will be vo...

of our viewers. they were able to do this after all of this discussion and all of this fight over specifically inclusion of fema funding. additional fema funding of in the short-term resolution. what is happening right now, john, is there is going to be a series of two votes, actually. and its a clean or simple and this basically is the measure that everyone basically agreed to. funding fema as well as not shutting down the government and it strips away all of the obstacles that had re...

what ben bernanke said yesterday was exactly what the market expected him to say, we know things are weak, we know europe is a severe issue. him saying it even though they knew he was going to say it makes people more worried looking for something to hold on to and a little bit of hope. most people say this is a dramatic sell-off and you might see stabilization. that isnt the same thing as saying we arent in a real economic problem, we know we are. >> it seems the markets are underwhel...

what ben bernanke said yesterday was exactly what the market expected him to say, we know things are weak, we know europe is a severe issue. him saying it even though they knew he was going to say it makes people more worried looking for something to hold on to and a little bit of hope. most people say this is a dramatic sell-off and you might see stabilization. that isnt the same thing as saying we arent in a real economic problem, we know we are. >> it seems the markets are underwhel...

effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander in chief. >> dr. sanjay gupta will join us for a reality check. but up first, live action in the house of representatives and how it impacts a search for a deal to keep the government from a default most economist say could derail the already fragile recovery. this hour you see right there live debate. the house is expected by the end of this hour to pass the republican majoritys cut, cap and balance plan. it would cut fede...

>> sean: you say from the beginning he focused on the wrong things. i want to talk to you about egypt and foreign policy you said from the time he took office, he focused on the wrong things if you were elected in 2008, pretty close. if you had been elected. he was saying it was the worst economy since the depression. what would you have done? what would the steps have been that you would have taken? >> his first job had to be to get the economy going again and stop the decline of americas produ...

As council for citizens against government waste president tom schatz wrote in support ofç my amendment, at a time when the nations debt has ballooned to more than $14.2 trillion, members of congress should be looking for every viable way to cut wasteful, unnecessary, and duplicative spending. by opposing my amendment, you are defending wasteful spending and a de facto tax increase on every american. ethanol subsidies are a spending program, wrongly placed in the tax code that increases the bu...

Nations debt has ballooned to more than $14.2 trillion, members of congress should be looking for every viable way to cut wasteful, unnecessary, and duplicative spending. by opposing my amendment, you are defending wasteful spending and a de facto tax increase on every american. ethanol subsidies are a spending program, wrongly placed in the tax code that increases the burden of government, keeps tax rates artificially high, and forces consumers to pay more for food and energy. rather than deman...