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Unwilling washington. >> the deal was this: if republicans and democrats could not cut $1.2 trillion out of the growth of spending over ten years, automatic cuts would kick in. half would come from domestic spending. half from defense. that's why brown was torn over the sequester last winter. he desperately wants to downsize the government, except for the pentagon. >> we need to make targeting cuts, but we need to have a strong national defense. we need to spend more money on the military. >> the white house's calculations was the republicans would not be able to tolerate the sequester because...

Of changes inside the republican party. where the automatic reflex of being pro-defense has been at least overlaid with an equally important impulse toward smaller government. >> it would take months for that x-ray image to fully develop. >> i think both parties have a sense that this would be a negative event for the economy. >> remember maryland congressman john delaney? well on february 12th, he headed to his first state of the union address. >> i don't think a sequester is going to happen. >> defense cuts were supposed to be a poison pill for republicans. >> yes. >> they were never going t...

Budget deal in washington as we hear growing calls for republicans to reject it. marc thiessen is a former speech writer for george bush and a fellow at the american enterprise institute. you have an interesting take suggesting that the republicans on capitol hill have a case of ptsd or post traumatic stress disorder. what do you mean? >> exactly. since barack obama took office the republicans have basically -- he's run the table over the republicans from this stimulus to obamacare to the fiscal cliff tax increases. the one victory republicans had, the one government reducing victory was the b...

That was the theory. would it hold? >> -- actually see anything changing until we do hit the government collapsing? >> i hope not. >> january 31st, bucks county, georgia. >> i believe in the constitution as our founding fathers made it. >> that's congressman paul brown. president obama had republicans like him in mind when he proposed the sequester. back in 2011. >> if we went back to the original intent of the constitution we wouldn't have a debt ceiling problem. >> people need to remember what the sequester is, how it came about. and that was over a fight over the debt ceiling. >> a fight an...

Listen, it's made the case to the american people that obamacare wasn't working. i think the political pressure on the president would have been considerable. now, would he have somehow needed some sort of face saving retreat about, well, this is not repealing it, it's a delay until we get our act together? sure. but i think that could potentially have been achievable. if we had been united. >> in fact, a fax news poll taken at the time found a sizable minority of americans actually did want to defund the law, and a majority liked the idea of delaying it. that's what the house tried next. pass...