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Extended the bush tax rates. what we set out to do was change the national conversation. we keep increasing the debt. and you helped it. no, we did. by refusing to do a deal now because every year that goes by it gets worse. by refusing to do a deal and giving something anything to the democrats, they are making the debt crisis worse. and the debt crisis began under ronald reagan and exploded under bush and the recession that he bequeathed us. and you sound a tea partier. i was a tea party when the rest were supporting bush. you can t now turn around and be more purest than thou about this. do you think the shutdown goes away and people just ....
Everything. you would argue they are for fiscal responsibility. they are for fiscal responsibility. they have drafted and passed and voted on all sorts of legislation in the house that solves problems. the republicans have to pick between debt what they hate most, the debt or the government. at some point this government is not going to be shrunk into a bathtub. with the boomers retiring it will have to be a tiny bit bigger and at that level we re in debt. the solution is to cut the spending and raise revenues. that s the only deal you re going to get with democrats. of course we raised a lot of revenues. we didn t. we raised a teeny bit. i would like to go back. there were two examples where the conventional wisdom said we just can t do this. one was the sequester and the other was extending the bush tax rates after the 2010 election. nancy pelosi and harry reid ....
Everything. they seem to be opposed to everything. you would argue they are for fiscal responsibility. they are for fiscal responsibility. they have drafted and passed and voted on all sorts of legislation in the house that solves problems. the republicans have to pick between debt what they hate most, the debt or the government. at some point this government is not going to be shrunk into a bathtub. with the boomers retiring it will have to be a tiny bit bigger and at that level we re in debt. the solution is to cut the spending and raise revenues. that s the only deal you re going to get with democrats. of course we raised a lot of revenues. we didn t. we raised a teeny bit. i would like to go back. there were two examples where the conventional wisdom said we just can t do this. one was the sequester and the other was extending the bush tax ....
Rates after the 2010 election. nancy pelosi and harry reid extended the bush tax rates. what we set out to do was change the national conversation. we keep increasing the debt. and you helped it. no, we did. by refusing to do a deal now because every year that goes by it gets worse. by refusing to do a deal and giving something anything to the democrats, they are making the debt crisis worse. and the debt crisis began under ronald reagan and exploded under bush and the recession that he bequeathed us. and you sound a tea partier. i was a tea party when the rest were supporting bush. you can t now turn around and be more purest than thou about this. ....
Three-month cr, that s insane. so republicans leaders are telling you this is silly? no. not at all. even john boehner a few months ago said this was the law of land and indicated he didn t want to do this. this is america forcing washington to do the right thing. i don t think so. i think it s 45 house republicans let s talk about examples where we all said it was impossible. do you all remember when nancy pelosi and harry reid and barack obama extendsed the bush tax rates? everybody said that was crazy but yet it happened. republican when republicans and democrats were saying we can t do this, it s too draconian. you think this is the magic formula. the 43rd time on defunding is actually going to get somewhere? no. the magic formula is if you don t show up to fight, you never win. even though half of your party doesn t want this fight. he s going into the alamo and already conceding how it s going to end. ....