They signed if it gets them closer to a deal with the white house. What is your reaction . Here are the numbers to call. You can also find us online. Send us a tweet or join us on facebook. You can also email us. Heres usa today looking at what happened on the sunday talk shows. It says the South Carolina senator became the second republican senator in recent days to back away from a no tax pledge devised in the decades ago. The willingness to break ranks could prove crucial as gop leaders and democrats try to reach a deal before taxing and spending changes take effect in january. New york representative king says Economic Conditions have changed since the antitax pledge first emerged. Hes a republican. That thee gops say fiscal cliff deal is what defined Grover Norquist. Lets hear congressman pete king of new york, a republican. He was on meet the press yesterday. [video clip] i agree entirely it. If i were in congress in 1941, i would have signed a declaration of war against japan. I would not attack japan today. The world has changed. I think everything should be on the table. I am opposed to tax increases. The speaker and majority leader and the president will be in a room trying to find the best package. We should not take ironclad positions. I would say john boehner has put together pretty good package and has been conciliatory in his language. Host that was yesterday. We are asking republicans what you think about indications from some republicans that they are willing to break their antitax pledge. Heres the Washington Post story we will go to the phones to hear from kiev and, joining us from stafford, virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning. If you listen very carefully, peter keane and even Saxon Chambliss and Lindsey Graham all said the same thing. We want revenue and are willing to generate revenue, but not by raising taxes. It is very simple. The president does not want to the president only wants to tax the rich because he said it during the campaign about 1 million times. Millionaires and billionaires. A family of two that makes 250,000 a year are not millionaires. The problem is we are not opposed to revenue. We are opposed to a tax increases. Lindsey graham said exactly that and peter king did too. It is against raising taxes. There are other ways to do revenue. The democrats dont like those other ways. It is called growth. That brings in more revenue. And readjusting the tax code to bring in more revenue. You dont have to raise taxes on anybody. Host lets go to jim in new castle, delaware, on our republican line. Caller good morning. The reason we have to be against tax increases and for spending cuts is to just show that we are a Different Party than the national sociologist parted as running the white house and the senate right now. Economic growth is being held back by the gigantic government in this country. Have to go over a cliff. Right now we have to change the business cycle. Washington is getting bigger and we are getting closer to the final disaster. Republicans have to stand for something. It cannot just be democrat light. I am a republican and am pretty disgusted by what going on in the Republican Party. We need to get some conservatives running. We cannot just keep nominating the next guy. We need someone like Ronald Reagan again. We need to get the whole conservative movement running instead of these consultants that are inside the beltway. The federal government is too big and out of control. Washington is rich and the rest of the country is hurting. Theyre using smoke and mirrors. Something has to change. The people have to wake up and it will take a crisis. We are in trouble. But host we will talk with malice in a little while on the future of the Republican Party. He is our guest in about a half hour from now. Lets look at the headline in the Washington Post, on the front page Laurie Montgomery reports senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was on abc yesterday. Lets hear what he had to say on the no taxes pledge. [video clip] what i would say to Grover Norquist is the sequester destroys the u. S. Military. According to our secretaire defense, it would be shooting ourselves in the hip. A smaller army since 1940 and the smallest airports in the history of the country. Sequestration must be replaced. Im willing to generate revenue. Its fair to ask my party to put revenue on the table. I will not raise tax rates to do it. I will cap deductions. If you can deduct and around 30,000 or 40,000, you can raise 1 trillion in revenue. The people who would lose deductions would be upperincome americans. I want entitlement reforms to do this. Democrats always promised to cut spending, but we never cut spending. Im looking for more revenue for entitlement reform before the end of the year. Let me press you one more time on Grover Norquist. He said you are not inclined to go through on this promise to raise revenues because you like being a senator. Your response . I love being a senator and i want to be a senator who matters for the state of South Carolina and the country. When you are 16 trillion in debt, the only pledged we should be making to each other is [indiscernible]. We dont generate enough revenue. Capping deductions would raise revenue. Raising tax rates would hurt job creation. I agree with Grover Norquist that we should not raise rates, and hes wrong when he says beacon at cap deductions. I want to buy down debt with the money and create jobs. I will violate the pledged for the good of this country on the democrats will do entitlement reform. Host that was senator Lindsey Graham yesterday. Heres what jose has to say on twitter and this in the l. A. Times this morning nine catechists signed on including mitt romney to Grover Norquist pledged. Nine candidates. The signatures and went on office walls like trophies, but an increasing number of republicans are moving away from his pledge and reassessing their resistance to any kind of tax increase. Gene has to say in jackson, michigan. Caller i think they should let it expire on the first of january. Cutting entitlements, the national debt, 8 trillion of that is money spent from taken from Social Security. They are trying to do away with it without having to pay it back. They want to keep the 8 trillion. The tax code worked fine when clinton was president and it can work fine again. Host were asking republicans what you think about republican flexibility on the antitax pledge. Here are the numbers to call if you are a republican sara is our next caller in edgewater, maryland. Caller good morning. If the Republican Party continues to do what it does with no tax increases, a social attitudes that they have, they obviously dont recognize the country has changed. The party will selfemployed. Signs are showing of that. To make a pledge to an ever increasing taxes is insane, because times have changed. You have to have the flexibility to do what is best for the country. Obviously, there are still lot of lawmakers out there to dont agree with that. My question to the lawmakers is, who do you surf . Serve . Do you serve Grover Norquist . Host are your republican . Caller i am, but i did support president obama in the election, because i could not vote for romney. I was a supporter of ron paul. Unfortunately he was not the chosen candidate, and he was on your program not long ago and he spoke about social welfare. We have corporate welfare then he pointed out that is far worse than supporting the seniors or the welfare recipients. This is something that needs to be addressed, corporate welfare, which is far worse. That is what we have to stop. I hope the Republican Party got the message loud and clear, because the way they are presenting themselves, whether it comes to abortion or financial stuff, its not good. Thank you very much. Host this on twitter, if republicans give a dollar on taxes, they need to get 3 back in entitlements. Senator Seitz A Chambliss came out last week against the Grover Norquist pledge. He told a local television station is not a word about the potential primary challenge is to be pledged to raise taxes. He says it cares more about the country than a 20yearold pledge. He signed the Taxpayer Protection pledge when he first ran for senate. Norquist hit back in a statement. Lets hear more about what senator chambliss said. He said he expects his defiance of gop antitax orthodoxy to earn him a primary calendar in 2014, when he said he does not worry about that because he cares too much about his country, a lot more than he does about Grover Norquist. Hes a member of a Bipartisan Group of senators focused on crafting a longterm deficit reduction deal. Grover norquist was on cnn on friday responding to senator chambliss comments. Lets listen to what Grover Norquist had to say. [video clip] the commitment he made to the people of georgia was not to me. It was a commitment to the people of georgia that he would go to washington to reduce Government Spending and to reform government and not raise taxes. If he wants to change his mind and become a tax increaser so we dont have to reform government, need to have that conversation with the people of georgia. He talks about my plan to increase debt, the only plan i think i supported is the paul ryan deal, which reduces the deficit, pays down the debt, does not raise taxes, and it is a written plan that senator chambliss actually voted for. So i think they caught him on a tv station and he said something scraps that did not make sense. Have you thought about changing the pledged in any way . Again, i cannot change the pledge, because t it is,o me. It is not like people are promising this to me. It was your group. Everybody associates the pledge with new. But that is very kind of them. Republicans and democrats, not just republicans, and the democratic congressman from kentucky took the pledge. Unfortunately, he broke the pledge and was defeated in the last election. People are a little unhappy that he pretended to be a conservative democrat and spent a lot of money and raised a lot of taxes and he lost. Ben nelson, another democrat, the senator from nebraska, he got elected taking the pledge, said he would not raise taxes, but he did raise taxes when he voted for obamacare. There are 20 different taxes there, many of them directed at the middle class. He could not win, so it decided not to run. Host that was Grover Norquist on cnn on friday. Lets hear what david has to say in new york. Are you with us . Moving on to joyce in lincoln, nebraska. Caller hi. The last lady hit the nail on the head. Several years ago i asked about a problem with a program for homeless people, housing, that needed assistance. There are people in certain income levels that absolutely need it. They do the jobs that most people would not do and they are paid very little for it. She said what makes you think you have the right to ask anything, given the amount of taxes you pay . I stood there and looked at her and i said, if the word of an individual is based on their network, how tragic. Many poor people have fought in wars and lost their lives and have been injured. It was really quite shocking that i was addressed in that manner. I think there is more than one way to commit to your country, not only in the military but as well when our country is in trouble. We all pitch in. My husband and i dont make a lot of money, but i would give 100 a month and cut somewhere else in my household to defend a country in this time of problems, to make sure that we succeed, that we do what we have to do. Mitt romney, i did not vote for, because of a 40 47 remark that he made. I think that they need to make more contact with people that are in need. And im not a socialist by any means. Im dead set against it. I am not against being ambitious, but i am a realist. I know enough people on the other side of the aisle that they call entitlements. A parent that is working and getting 7 an hour and paying utilities, etc. , should they have the right to have health care for their children . Absolutely. How do we do that . If we can send a man to the moon, certainly we can come up with a way. I think more individuals would be willing to kick in pitch in than what we realize. I would. Host that was joyce from nebraska. Our question is for republicans this morning. What do you think about the possibility some republicans are showing on the antitax pledge they previously committed to . Some comments on facebook. Patricia says vote aoll rhinos out of office all rhinos. Terry says no tax increase. Danny says votes all norquist new economic republican thinkers out. You can join that conversation by looking for cspan and weighing in. Billy is our next caller in augusta, georgia. Caller i think we should raise taxes on the rich. Every republican in the house should vote to raise taxes on rich. No matter what Grover Norquist or senator Thune Instagram or any of them say. If we can raise taxes on the richest and get rid of some of the loopholes, some of the capital gains, we will Start Building the economy again. No matter what the Grover Norquist or Lindsey Graham or any of them say, every republican in the house should vote to raise taxes on the rich. The average republican is not making 250,000 a year. Theyre just saying they should not raise taxes because they are republicans. Host are you a republican . Caller i am, but i voted for obama. Host what would it take for you to vote for republican . In terms of the fiscal cliff, sequestration, big budget cuts, what do you want to see them do . Caller if the republicans could find a candidate that would do what Ronald Reagan dipped, they would gladly get my vote back. As long as they have people like john mccain, sarah palin, and mitt romney, they are just playing. Host heres a story in the new k times. David is up next, new york, good morning. Caller good morning. How are ya . Im a republican and i dont believe that the 1 or a portion of the country should be taxed. It can be mathematically proven. A president handed in m speech to be scored. He never came up with a plan how this money would be redistributed and that it would solve the problems. I dont see it. There was nothing mathematically drawn up. The republicans had a couple of plants. Loring the taxes and getting people back to work, getting them off the food stamp programs and whatever other Entitlement Program there is, get them off of that, get them into a job. If you look at germany, theyre getting 350 euros per month to live as an Entitlement Program. None of the germans are going back to work. They are hiring immigrants in that country to do the work. So you dont really been anything by giving entitlements or lifelong unemployment or checks every month to pay the bills or three washing machines. You dont get people back to work like that. If you lower taxes and do what Ronald Reagan did and get employment back up and more people working and making more per week, more per month, their chances of getting into the middleclass or the upperclass are much greater. Light is much better with a job. I dont think the Republican Party should raise the taxes on any portion of the country or the whole country. Host we will leave it there. Republicans are bailing out, grover still wants them to pledge not to bail. Republicans in congress are demanding structural changes to a government pension and health care schemes, including higher in any deal to avert the fiscal cliff. What do you think about republican flexibility on the antitax pledge . Politico says to call them the cliff jumpers. That is looking at some democrats perspective on the fiscal cliff. Nick is in el paso, texas, a republican. What do you think about the possibility of flexibility on no taxes . Caller yes, good morning. I believe republicans are being inflexible. I dont believe the rates should go up, because then taxes would go up. I believe when president obama says taxes will go on the rich, that is bull. Its taxes for everybody. You cannot bring down the debt with a 5 trillion in your accumulated over the last four years to pay it down. You need structure readjustment with the entitlements, also, with Social Security, medicare, medicaid, also, and, also, the tax reform. The republicans have talked about revenue coming in from growth jobs and getting the economy going. When you get the economy going, you get more money coming into the irs and treasury when more americans are at work, they are paying. I dont believe it it is , woodymr. Norquist said, it is a pledge to the people. Some of those senators wanting to raise wanting not to raise taxes, that pledge, they knew what would happen to them, they would get run out of state. First i want to see president obamas cards on the table. Host jerry is up next in st. Charles, missouri. Good morning. Caller one of the things i would like to talk about is the waste in government. I see it continuously in ads on. On a completely off as far as a meter for your diabetes. They say it is free. You have to watch the price. The waste in government has been going on a longtime. Why did they not attack it the last 20 years . The waste has been there forever. God bless representative colb urn because hes going after waste and duplication in government, like eight different agencies covering one thing. I tried a couple of those ads for your Blood Pressure or a c