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Coming fiscal year on discretionary spending than the president's own budget agreement from july 2011 says. there's a hard cap in that budget agreement that he signed that is $967 billion. democrats want to spend 1 trillion $58 billion. the president says we need to have more of these investments. the next day, harry reid goes out and says, tax reform is off the table, we need tax increases of $1 trillion. over the course of the next decade, what is $1 trillion divided by 10? about $100 billion a year. conveniently enough to pay for the president's $91 billion in additional new spending that w...

It's the only tool the republicans have. they frankly got the high ground. all we're doing is living up to the agreement. we're sticking by the agreement that you made us sign that you agreed to that all of us agreed to, $967 billion in discretionary spending this year, you want to increase it, we want to live up to the agreement that you and we arrived at. i mean, they have the high ground in this, and it's going to be hard for the president to go to the country and say ah, i'm going to shut down the government, i'm going to shut down our federal government, washington, d.c., because they won...

Discretionary spending by year. this year's budget cap for discretionary spend something two, excuse me, $967 billion. the president obama and the senate democrats want to spend in the coming fiscal year that starts october 1, $1,058,000,000,000. that is above the cap that the president agreed to in the 2011 budget agreement. the president wants a trillion dollars roughly in new tax revenues in the next 10 years in order to pay for $91 billion this year and making that into the cake, putting in baseline of the budget and putting in the next decade. he will say to republicans i will say tax ref...

It's the only tool the republicans have. they frankly got the high ground. all we're doing is living up to the agreement. we're sticking by the agreement that you made us sign that you agreed to that all of us agreed to, $967 billion in discretionary spending this year, you want to increase it, we want to live up to the agreement that you and we arrived at. i mean, they have the high ground in this, and it's going to be hard for the president to go to the country and say ah, i'm going to shut down the government, i'm going to shut down our federal government, washington, d.c., because they won...

Star pot shotter today. if he was trying to alien ate the other side, he did a good job. >> that's right. look, it's one thing to take a pot shot, it's another thing to question moefstives. that speech was riddled with motives on his opponents. the president ought to rise above that. the president ought to be the last person that questions the motives of the people he works with. i think that's what this is all about. this is all about setting up a political battle, trying to win score -- a good score with the public but not really trying to get anything done. and the problem is, the president...