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Brought in as tea party candidates5%pó who are going alg with the compromise? what do you think is going to happen to them in their districts? >> i think it is a shame there's already some tea party candidates, some freshmen in there who believe that status quo is the only way to operate in d.c.. they gotta remember, we worked so hard to hire them to do what is right for the american electorate. they need to stand strong and just use that common sense and fiscal conservative issues need to be played out in their budgeting process. and not compromi. there's no need to compromise on principle. ...

Brought in as tea party candidates5%pó who are going alg with the compromise? what do you think is going to happen to them in their districts? >> i think it is a shame there's already some tea party candidates, some freshmen in there who believe that status quo is the only way to operate in d.c.. they gotta remember, we worked so hard to hire them to do what is right for the american electorate. they need to stand strong and just use that common sense and fiscal conservative issues need to be played out in their budgeting process. and not compromise. there's no need to compromise on principle...

Do that. >> gregg: jason, republicans have been actually back pedaling on their promise from the very beginning. paul ryan said at one point, well, the fiscal year is nearly half over, so republicans would pro rate the cuts to cover only the seven months from march to september. my goodness, i mean, jason, they knew that the fiscal year was half over when they made the pledge. isn't that just an excuse and isn't that the kind of political deception that americans are just sick and tired of? >> i don't question the sincerity of their goals during the campaign to get to that point. like i said b...

$100 billion in the first year alone. now, jason, their spending plan did not cut $100 billion from federal programs, so was that just an empty campaign promise, to put it in impoe late terms, a -- impolite terms, a lie? >> i would say the first proposal did come up short from what the campaign rhetoric promised, but one of the great things about this new freshmen class is 87 republicans is that that's -- they ran on a platform of reform and cutting spending and they held the leadership's feet to the fire. >> gregg: does the leadership not get it? >> i talked to some folks for conservative thi...

And so i don't buy the notion the premise beneath that, that spending should or can go up, 27%. >> chris: but what does it say about -- that you were, went all out to cut spending and issued the vetoes and the deficit -- i mean, you can talk about projections, but, certainly has not gone down and may go up. >> what it does say is in minnesota and men other states you have to have a budgeting process that doesn't have spending on auto pilot. so that is why we have the deficit in our state and there's a bunch of spending that is on auto pilot, and that auto pilot feature has to be shut off and t...