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Entitlements including social security which some of your top democratic leaders say off the table, are you willing to cut those and is it as the gop claims because you face a tough reelection fight in 2012? >> well, i decided that ear marking was not for this former auditor on the day i got there, chris. i started working on trying to rein in government contracting the day i got there and tom coburn and i worked together on that for every day i have been in the united states senate. yes, i voted for big things when your economy was in a crisis but i always had an eye on the pivot to make sure...

Entitlements including social security which some of your top democratic leaders say off the table, are you willing to cut those and is it as the gop claims because you face a tough reelection fight in 2012? >> well, i decided that ear marking was not for this former auditor on the day i got there, chris. i started working on trying to rein in government contracting the day i got there and tom coburn and i worked together on that for every day i have been in the united states senate. yes, i voted for big things when your economy was in a crisis but i always had an eye on the pivot to make sure...

>> chris: i can't let this go. we just heard that the country had a $1.3 trillion deficit in the last year and i mean should democrats be preaching about being serious about the deficit? >> i can't speak for all democrats. i can speak for this one who has worked as senator cornyn said with senator sessions to try to bring down spending as a senator who doesn't ear mark. they won't even pledge that they will quit ear marking the republicans. how serious -- independent voters need to take a hard look at that. if they won't even say that they will stop ear marking in this kind of spending problem...