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Democratic leader in the senate going after the president on this issue. what do you say? >> listen, i'm not in love with ear marks. if they disappeared tomorrow i wouldn't mind. but harry reid has a good point and i like the way he said it. the bottom line here is if the congress is empowered with the idea that we're supposed to represent our constituents in deciding how money is distributed. it's funny, all these tea party guys and all these new republican members of the house majority, they express their fidelity to the constitution, but they want to see that important part of congressional...

Down and spending cuts but they don't want the entitlements touched. is going to take some real leadership. i do think there is this healthy tension in the republican party between the freshman and jim demint who want to go farther than the establishment has been thering to go. and if you look back in the last couple of months, so far the upstarts or whatever you want to call them, the tea party has won quite a few battles. ear marks was something that mitch mcconnell defended a heck of a lot longer than i thought he would and then he folded. >> chris: i want to pick up on what you said about ...

Down and spending cuts but they don't want the entitlements touched. is going to take some real leadership. i do think there is this healthy tension in the republican party between the freshman and jim demint who want to go farther than the establishment has been thering to go. and if you look back in the last couple of months, so far the upstarts or whatever you want to call them, the tea party has won quite a few battles. ear marks was something that mitch mcconnell defended a heck of a lot longer than i thought he would and then he folded. >> chris: i want to pick up on what you said about ...

Omnibus spending bill which had $8 billion in new ear marks. on the other hand, congress did pass that extension of tax cuts and also unmany ployment benefits which adds another are trillion dollars to the deficit. my question is did congressing get the message that voters were sending in the midterm elections? >> well, i searchly don't -- i certainly don't believe that the lame duck congress did. ede omnibus would have raise the baseline $40 billion when you take all of the tricks out of it. we want to have a stimulus program but don't want to get rid of the inefficient things that are not wo...

Omnibus spending bill which had $8 billion in new ear marks. on the other hand, congress did pass that extension of tax cuts and also unmany ployment benefits which adds another are trillion dollars to the deficit. my question is did congressing get the message that voters were sending in the midterm elections? >> well, i searchly don't -- i certainly don't believe that the lame duck congress did. ede omnibus would have raise the baseline $40 billion when you take all of the tricks out of it. we want to have a stimulus program but don't want to get rid of the inefficient things that are not wo...