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Of how the government -- this administration unilaterally decides which portions of the law tone force and which ones not to enforce. >> then there's house speaker john boehner who may be in the best position of the three politically after he was proven right about the political folly of the government shutdown. boehner signaled this week that he's unwilling to repeat another confrontation next month on the debt ceiling, telling reporters, quote, no one wants to fault, but he blamed the president's intransience for why he has to fall on this issue. >> it's become obvious to me after having tri...

Money. this is just an example of showing they haven't figured out what the priority is for nasa. nasa is national a aeronautics and space exploration. it's not about the garbage we see here. >> you outline 100 examples of what you have zoned in on as egregious federal spending problems. total 30 billion. one of which is studying whether wives should calm down or not. i say yes. $325,000, i'll double that if they will. >> how can we right now hearing all this waste? >> you need to tread carefully with that one because i'm not sure that the results of that study are well received by wives. >> n...

We're going to find that out. >> governor, final thought? >> there's a number of lessons learned. one is when you bluff and your bluff gets called and you don't have the cards, it's embarrassing. number two, if you're going to negotiate a put a stake in the ground and say i'll do something dramatic unless x happens and you don't do something dramatic, again, it doesn't look so good. the republican party is going to go through a sorting out process but keep in mind, the energy and i think the media misunderstands is at the grassroots level, leans now libertarian, leans -- >> absolutely. >> but ...

>> clearly on the debt ceiling, to get anything long-term we want to get a long-term deal that starts addressing the nation's spending problems. the debt ceiling is basically you've maxed out the credit card and when the president comes and says he wants to get a new credit card to spend more, we've obviously been concerned. let's address these spending problems. >> you know very well, you've been in the house, you know very well that you are not going to get an agreement on the long-term -- the drivers of our long-term debt and deficit issues in three days. what you need to do is agree to som...

Sensible, at least starting point negotiation that doesn't include obama care, on the debt ceiling. so i think the president's strategy is paying off. republicans are finally coming back to some close approximatation to sanity. we'll see what happens tonight. >> you mentioned paul ryan. newt, i'm going to give it to you because there were kind of crickets for a while, and boom, you see this op-ed in the wall street journal, calling for modest reforms to entitlement programs, to the tax code. not a single word about obama care. what do you make of that because i know a lot of conservatives are ...