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Is deficit reduction through entitlement reform. everybody is motivated to do it. it s just a matter of getting hold the phone, hold the phone. mark just said the president doesn t care about getting reelected. i didn t say that. i said he s not afraid of losing because of deficit reduction and i think he s shown that. he ll have to have republicans on board to do it. if that was the case, the budget he proposed yesterday would have looked very, very different. no. he s decided the republicans have to go first after demagoguing on medicaid. yes. he s doing exactly what you said he should, joe. show me what you got. show me what you got. do the republicans ever really get there? no. or is this just a lot of hot air. we ll find out. they have to get there. they have to get there. that s what they ran on. we have no choice. we have no choice. medicare, medicaid, social security. yeah, but you talk about punting. the republicans have punted for the last ye ....
Shot. defense spending. yeah, exactly. let s go to capitol hill right now. republican senator from alabama, senator jeff sessions. and also from the was, chuck todd. senator, let s begin with you. we have been, of course, talking about the president s budget, talking about the cuts that need to be made and talking about entitlement spending and pentagon spending. will the republicans come forward with a meaningful plan to reduce the explosion in entitlement costs over the next generation? well, it s going to be difficult in the senate because we don t have a majority and won t be able to move a budget the democrats don t agree to, that the president doesn t agree to, but you ll see that in the house. there s no doubt about it. they re already proposing things. you get the same pushback that you get governor christy does in new jersey. but these are not cuts that ....
now they have to write a budget in the house. paul ryan has to write a budget. he can punt and not write one. i think the president is scared to death. i think he s quivering under his desk. i ve heard for two years on social security, medicare, i ve hurd for two years, oh, this president thinks like you, joe. no, he doesn t. if he thought like me, he would have addressed it two years ago. every year that goes by is a year that the united states of america gets closerer to an untenable position. if he were serious about entitlements, if he were serious about helping us avoid the type of economic meltdown that japan has suffered, that ireland has suffered, that greece has suffered, he would not say, you know what, i ve waited two years. i m going to spend lots of money these first two years. lots and lots of money. and then maybe i ll get to it my third year. or maybe i ll spend lots and lots more money. come on. andrew ross-sorkin, defend me here. we re on the same page. that s ....
And, you know, we happen to know on background that the two were talking. right. and giving each other ideas. it s it starts with actually telling the truth and making extremely tough choices. and for the republicans to accuse the president of punting and then to punt back, this is it s going to get boring very quickly. somebody has to actually come forward. when you say politicians are rational creatures, you re saying they re rational in terms of wanting to keep their jobs, not rational in terms of tackling problems that they all know exist. i have one point on the keeping the job issue. there was a nugget buried in the budget which i don t think a lot of people paid attention to. the obama administration itself, did you see this on the jobless number? they re projecting years out what joblessness is going to be. in 2012, which is the next time that will matter, 8.6%. so to the extent that you thought and we ve talked about trying to get that number down to 8%. that s a ....
Numbers. he s followed the chris christie model, the second governor in the nation to do it, a democrat in one of the most democratic states, talking about slashing the budget. his numbers have skyrocketed. that is the highest number ever recorded by this poll for any governor. courage this year wins, andrew. my point is if that s true, you think that the folks in washington would get some. right? all right. so here is mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, the republicans, responding to what the president has put forward. take a look. the president s budget is a clear sign that he simply does not take our fiscal problems seriously. it s a patronizing plan that says to the american people that their concerns are not his concerns. it s a plan that says fulfilling the president s vision of a future of trains and windmills is more important than a balanced checkbook. i guess i would say debt on ....