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Say this is what we are going to spend in 2012. or we are going to start the debate there. start it there if there are some pressing needs, we can up it a little bit. if there aren't, we can down it a little bit. i'm glad you agree with me on that because you know this stuff much better than i do. now, in president obama's budget, and this is how colmes is trying to petty fog the issue. he wants to raise 493 billion next year. >> right. >> bill: he says going to be $493 billion coming in to fund his 2012 budget. where is that coming from? >> well, it's coming from reinstatement of the payroll ...

Programs in the last ten years. here they are, the gigantic tax cuts that went predominantly through the years. that's by far the biggest damage we did to the bucket. in 2003, another round of tax cuts. medicare part d, and then in 2009, the stimulus package cost $793 billion. then 2010 tax cut was $374 billion. keep in mind those are only the numbers through 2011. over a span of ten years they're going to cost a hell of a lot more than that. for the 2001 tax cuts, 18% of democrats voted. 93% of republicans did. that caused the biggest problems in our budget.

That began to fracture a little bit in the run-up to the iraq war. there was a small but vocal minority of people on the right saying the iraq war was a mistake. it was largely national security neoconservative vision that kept the right together. now, in the post bush/obama era, there's a new unifying feature on the right. the thing everybody on the right can agree on is about spending. it's about too much government, too much government spending. too much debt and deficit. that's the thing that really unifies republicans right now. the problem for republicans though is that if you are seriou...

Of strong defense. that began to fracture a little bit in the run-up to the iraq war. there were some saying the iraq war was a mistake. it was largely national security that kept the right together. now, in the post bush/obama era, there's a new unifying feature on the right. the thing everybody on the right can agree on is about spending. it's about too much government, too much government spending. too much debt and deficit. that's the thing that really unifies republicans right now. the problem for republicans though is that if you are serious about wanting to government spending, you can'...

Over the next ten years by cutting military spending. that's right. texas congressman and military veteran ron paul wants to cut pentagon spending. his progressive partner joins us presently. pentagon's budget for 2010 is $693 billion. more than all the other discretionary spending combined. if you subtract the wars in afghanistan and iraq it accounts for more than 42% of total discretionary spending. the u.s. spending more on military spending than during the cold war. it spends more than russia, china, all the middle east and all of nato and the rest of europe combined. orpgt 11 large nuclea...