Mike huckabee on home court in may that reagan probably wouldn t even make it into the ticket today. let s listen and see if you agree with that. ronald reagan would have a difficult, if not impossible time, being nominated in this atmosphere of the republican party. how come? he raised taxes as governor. he made deals with democrats. he compromised on things in order to move the ball down the field. michael, are you the left or right of reagan? i stand with reagan. one of the reasons why i joined the party as a young man. one of the reasons you re not in it anymore. let s go to joan. it seems like the michael steeles and ronald reagans aren t quite hip enough, crazy enough to bring down the government. your last thought, joan? michael still says he s not let s leave him where he is. i m glad he supports ronald reagan. let me answer the question. i want him to be a voice for real conciliation on his side with the people in hits parties. reagan sadly probably could not be nominated unless he sold out everybody he believed in at this
Cheat. how widespread is it? where we have to make it more difficult for an honest older person who may not drive car people in their 80s don t have driver s licenses, don t deal with the government, are we going to be discouraging people by raising the standards? the state of missouri looked into the question. how many people do we have on the rolls, and how many people have identification cards, either driver s licenses or others. it turned on the 105% of the eligible voter population issued driver s licenses. what do you mean 105%? their own numbers their own numbers that more than the that doesn t make any sense. you re losing your credibility here, because i know older people not at all. older people don t drive. not at all.
And then somebody does come and vote for you. this is an old strategy. bill city politics. like north philly. i know about it in north philly. i believe it still goes on. the question is, can we correct it without screwing up our system? i want people to vote, that s the number one goal, but i also want to make sure people don t cheat. how widespread is it? where we have to make it more difficult for an honest older person who may not drive car people in their 80s don t have driver s licenses, don t deal with the government, are we going to be discouraging people by raising the standards? the state of missouri looked into the question. how many people do we have on the rolls, and how many people have identification cards, either driver s licenses or others. it turned on the 105% of the eligible voter population issued driver s licenses. what do you mean 105%?
A lot of tea party congress people, the idea of a federal government that only spends 18% of the economy, 18% of the gdp. do you think that s reasonable? that s in the balanced-budget amendment. i would love to have that, but the proposal we offered yesterday was a 20% capital during that period. keep in mind, i hear what you re saying, you think this isn t a compromise, but there s a lot of us who never expected to come to washington to vote to raise the debt ceiling. for us a $2.4 trillion increase is a compromise. we wanted 18% caps, we didn t get it, we took 20% instead. there s compromises we have already made. in exchange we give the many dr we re willing to trade a short-term fleck, for a long-term fix. which is the balanced budget amendment. we know the budget, going into these big ticket items.
Out three months ago, so it could have been fully vetted. and attacked from every side and we are getting some of those attacks today. we are where we re at. sometimes it s a little whacky. we re 13 days away from a default, with the interest rates skyrocketing. the government can t pay its bills. we ve got to be responsible if we can make sure this ought to be a starting point for the conversation, remember, this has got revenues, it s got an approach that says defense spending has to take its hit as well. i think it s a good starting point. august 2nd coming around the bend. let s go through the groups. how do you get the house democrats to go along with at least participating in guess 218 if boehner will let this come to a vote? we went and talked on a lot