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They have filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. well be along with much more on what this means now. this morning, were also getting a closer look at the republican proposal to slash government spending by $61 billion. but like the presidents budget plan that was out this week, it doesnt touch the biggest ticket items. including programs like medicare, medicaid, and social security. those so-called entitlement programs. judd gregg is a former republican senator from new hampshire and also a former ...

Most of this has come down to discretionary spending, domestic spending but nothing in terms of taking on the big ticket items, social security, medicare or the kind of cuts that people would expect in defense spending. >> brett: you are still a fox news contributor. chris, what about you? >> a president is having trouble reconciling himself in divided government. this isnt the kind of budget that comes out from democratic president with a republican house. instead of saying, i am proposing a bo...

It is time to get real about the new obama budget blueprint and the failure by either party to make the tough et choices to cut spending. the white house brags that its new 2012 budget would shrink deficits every year over the next ten years reducing them by over $1.4 trillion but under the presidents plan the federal government would still spend money dreads of billions of dollars more than it takes in every year over that ten-year period, and the country would sink trillions of dollars deeper ...

Discretionary spending, domestic spending but nothing in terms of taking on the big ticket items, social security, medicare or the kind of cuts that people would expect in defense spending. >> brett: you are still a fox news contributor. chris, what about you? >> a president is having trouble reconciling himself in divided government. this isnt the kind of budget that comes out from democratic president with a republican house. instead of saying, i am proposing a bold initiative. im going to lea...

Theyre going to make a tenth of the slashes that rand paul would like to make in discretionary spending because there would be blood all over the floor and theyre fearful of what happens when they go home. >> maybe this comes up at lunch today with the president and republican leaders. >> mika, you know where theres really going to be blood on the floor, these republicans that came in, got elected, said they were going to take care of this mess, become the same kind of cowards that republicans w...

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Ticket items, health care and environmental regulation, there is no movement. >> epa didnt think they had to change a single rule. the executive order. cost benefit analysis valse that are difficult or impossible to quantify. equity and human dignity and fairness and distributive impacts. sounds like spreading the wealth. >> that is saying to business talk to the hand. >> the reality of the issue like the carbon finding or financial regulation, they are arcane and complain . the president can en...

Place to run the presidents economic advisory council. is a lot of this stuff designed to brick big business back into the obama tent where it was in 2008 and then they left him? >> big business is clearly a constituency obama wants. and he is trying a little bit to reach out to small business with regulatory relief measure. but, on the big ticket item, which small business complains about a lot. the e.p.a. endangerment finding, declaring carbon emissions pollutant and regulating them. so far no...

>> a lot of us pushed as this administration began pushed them to pursue the bush administration in areas like torture and the lies about iraq, i mean big ticket items, those of us who believed in the constitution. but there was a political consideration in that obviously too, if you dont investigate, future politicians will say bush got away with it, we can too. youre also telling the public, the bush administration got away with it, case closed. is there any thought about trying to do anything...

>> i think what it would send would be a message that different times call for different policies. stimulus, obama administration and many economists argued was essential to keep the economy afloat. we need jobs, hiring, payroll tax would do it, appear to be bipartisan, broad public support and probably the quickest stimulator of hiring i could think of. >> greta: looking at the other numbers in these polls, like immigration, 50% say republicans will do better to 35% that the democrats. jobs and...